Social Distancing Readathon #160 - April 7 - 9
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2023
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1SilverWolf28
Welcome to another readathon!
We generally run from Friday at 5 p.m. to Sunday at midnight in whatever time zone you choose, but feel free to start earlier on Friday and wrap up overnight Sunday/Monday, if that's what you want to do.
Here are some things to track throughout the weekend, if you choose:
Books read from:
Books finished:
Time reading:
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities:
Total books finished:
Total read from:
Total time reading:
Who is participating -
1. SilverWolf (SilverWolf28) -- Tennessee, USA
We generally run from Friday at 5 p.m. to Sunday at midnight in whatever time zone you choose, but feel free to start earlier on Friday and wrap up overnight Sunday/Monday, if that's what you want to do.
Here are some things to track throughout the weekend, if you choose:
Books read from:
Books finished:
Time reading:
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities:
Total books finished:
Total read from:
Total time reading:
Who is participating -
1. SilverWolf (SilverWolf28) -- Tennessee, USA
2PawsforThought
My plans for Easter are just reading and solving crosswords so hopefully I’ll be popping by here frequently.
3alcottacre
I am in! Thanks again for hosting, Silver.
5avatiakh
I'm in.
It's a holiday today for Good Friday with all shops closed and again on Sunday.
I'm mostly reading Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius & The Rose Revived by Katie Fforde.
Food: Got up early and made two soups - Yemenite soup and Spanish chorizo soup. One's in the slow cooker for the day and the other will be ready soon.
Enjoying a cup of Greek saffron herbal tea with honey & orange & snacking on my homemade almond orange cake.
It's a holiday today for Good Friday with all shops closed and again on Sunday.
I'm mostly reading Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius & The Rose Revived by Katie Fforde.
Food: Got up early and made two soups - Yemenite soup and Spanish chorizo soup. One's in the slow cooker for the day and the other will be ready soon.
Enjoying a cup of Greek saffron herbal tea with honey & orange & snacking on my homemade almond orange cake.
6elkiedee
Easter here (London, England) is a 4 day weekend. Not all shops are closed on any day but both Good Friday and Easter Monday are Bank Holidays. If I get round to it, I'll try to list reading from when I wake up in the morning (it is technically Friday 7 April here already) until and including Monday night/early hours Tuesday. Hoping to get an Easter Egg, perhaps on Saturday or maybe an unsold egg half price on Monday. (I do already have a little cache of chocolate).
7nrmay
I'm in again.
It was going to be a quiet holiday weekend for us but we decided to join the family gathering on Easter Sunday.
Friday will be my free day. Saturday cook and get ready. It's a 2 hr drive to my sister's house on Sunday and we'll stay the night and come home early Mon.
I do have to finish March by Geraldine Brooks for book club on Tues morning.
Good, but intense. Horrifying even.
I need my next book to be light and amusing. . .
The politcal stew is causing anxiety. Banning books? Really?!! But protecting assault rifles?
It was going to be a quiet holiday weekend for us but we decided to join the family gathering on Easter Sunday.
Friday will be my free day. Saturday cook and get ready. It's a 2 hr drive to my sister's house on Sunday and we'll stay the night and come home early Mon.
I do have to finish March by Geraldine Brooks for book club on Tues morning.
Good, but intense. Horrifying even.
I need my next book to be light and amusing. . .
The politcal stew is causing anxiety. Banning books? Really?!! But protecting assault rifles?
9susanna.fraser
I'm in, even though between my son's birthday (he's 19 today, and we'll be having a small family celebration over the weekend) and Easter it'll be a busy time.
10thornton37814
I'm hoping to finish The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos and Night Rounds by Helene Tursten this weekend. I'd like to also get in some listening time to The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves.
11ChrisG1
I'm in again - just started Blindsight by Peter Watts last night.
12witchyrichy
I am in. I visited with family last week so we are home for this weekend. It's been a rainy day and I've been reading Murder on the Pneumatic Railway, a ER book, and Head Trip by Jeff Warren. More rain tomorrow so I might as well read, right? My only other plans are to prep for our camping trip next week. It is easy: just a couple nights at a cabin at a state park in the western part of Virginia. We plan to relax and explore.
13Carmenere
Friday Night update:
Books read from: The Ride of a Lifetime
Books finished:
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 9:45 pm
Snacks: Beer battered cod with garlic riced cauliflower
Thoughts: OMG how stressful it must be to be a CEO and report to your board
Non-book activities: Watched episode of Survivor and the Cleveland Guardians home opener
Total books finished:
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 4 hours
Books read from: The Ride of a Lifetime
Books finished:
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 9:45 pm
Snacks: Beer battered cod with garlic riced cauliflower
Thoughts: OMG how stressful it must be to be a CEO and report to your board
Non-book activities: Watched episode of Survivor and the Cleveland Guardians home opener
Total books finished:
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 4 hours
14alcottacre
Friday Night Update:
Books read from: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. Ward, and The Winners by Fredrik Backman
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~1.5 hours + time listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~1.5 hours
I did not get nearly as much time to read today as I had hoped!
Books read from: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. Ward, and The Winners by Fredrik Backman
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~1.5 hours + time listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~1.5 hours
I did not get nearly as much time to read today as I had hoped!
15nrmay
Late night Friday
Books:
Finished March a few minutes ago. Great book but devastating, emotionally wrenching.
What now? something from my own shelf, I think.
Lunch was leftover smoked turkey salad; dinner - Parmesan chicken pasta.
Other activity:
found easy recipes and ideas for Spanish topas to take to Sunday dinner. My BIL is making paella.
Books:
Finished March a few minutes ago. Great book but devastating, emotionally wrenching.
What now? something from my own shelf, I think.
Lunch was leftover smoked turkey salad; dinner - Parmesan chicken pasta.
Other activity:
found easy recipes and ideas for Spanish topas to take to Sunday dinner. My BIL is making paella.
16Cecilturtle
Saturday noon:
Books read from: This is not a book by Michael Picard; Subdivided, edited by Jay Pitter; Little Big Lies by Liane Moriarty
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 12 pm on Saturday
Snacks: popcorn
Thoughts: Little Big Lies is hilarious; it's a example of humour and noir
Non-book activities: hiking, birding, crocheting
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 2
Books read from: This is not a book by Michael Picard; Subdivided, edited by Jay Pitter; Little Big Lies by Liane Moriarty
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 12 pm on Saturday
Snacks: popcorn
Thoughts: Little Big Lies is hilarious; it's a example of humour and noir
Non-book activities: hiking, birding, crocheting
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 2
17fuzzi
The weather is cold, rainy, what we used to refer to as RAW.
I'm hoping to start a new book later, so count me in!
I'm hoping to start a new book later, so count me in!
18witchyrichy
>17 fuzzi: Same here. I tried to work in the garden, but it was miserable. I did take a walk with the dog and started listening to Garment of Shadows, after you reminded me of the Russell & Holmes series. I plan to listen later while I crochet a bookmark for a friend's birthday. I am gifting her a book.
I have been reading Richard Rohr's Wondrous Encounters throughout Lent and finished today with the last entry. I appreciate Rohr's approach to scripture as a way to consider our relationship to the Divine without making prescriptions. He also uses a variety of translations including The Message by Eugene Peterson, which is the version I am reading this year.
Continuing Murder on the Pneumatic Railway and will finish before supper.
Otherwise, not doing much of anything except some light cleanup and organizing. The cold and damp make my joints achey. A soak in a hot bath is in my future.
The big news is that I saw my first hummingbird of the season. I put the feeders up Thursday and a male stopped by one of them for a good long drink earlier today.
I have been reading Richard Rohr's Wondrous Encounters throughout Lent and finished today with the last entry. I appreciate Rohr's approach to scripture as a way to consider our relationship to the Divine without making prescriptions. He also uses a variety of translations including The Message by Eugene Peterson, which is the version I am reading this year.
Continuing Murder on the Pneumatic Railway and will finish before supper.
Otherwise, not doing much of anything except some light cleanup and organizing. The cold and damp make my joints achey. A soak in a hot bath is in my future.
The big news is that I saw my first hummingbird of the season. I put the feeders up Thursday and a male stopped by one of them for a good long drink earlier today.
19benitastrnad
>15 nrmay:
I felt the same way when I finished March. I thought it was the best book I have read by Geraldine Brooks but it is not a book that I want to revisit anytime soon. I think it totally deserved the Pulitzer Prize. I also know that there are many people who don't like this novel. However, it is one of the books that stayed with me long after I read it.
I felt the same way when I finished March. I thought it was the best book I have read by Geraldine Brooks but it is not a book that I want to revisit anytime soon. I think it totally deserved the Pulitzer Prize. I also know that there are many people who don't like this novel. However, it is one of the books that stayed with me long after I read it.
20benitastrnad
Saturday update
Books read from: I am reading Night Rounds by Helene Tursten and continue to slowly read Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. I am determined to finish this book. I finished reading Dark Flood by Deon Meyer. I finished listening to Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz and, since I was traveling I also started and finished listening to book 2 in the Susan Ryeland series - Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz. I will start listening to Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz today.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Dark Flood by Deon Meyer and Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders both by Anthony Horowitz.
Book Thoughts: I was traveling this weekend so I managed to finish several books. On Friday before I left, I finished Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz and I started the second book in the Susan Ryeland series - Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz as I was driving out of town. 18 hours later I finished it just as I drove into the driveway here in Kansas. There are only two books in this series so after listening to both of them I am caught up with this series. Both books are examples of metafiction, and are books within books. I am not sure that I like this kind of format, but listening to them was easy and helped to keep it straight which book was being written about. There were two narrators - one for the Susan Ryeland character and one for the Atticus Pund books. This really helped to keep things straight and both narrators were excellent. I also had hardcopy of the both books, and kept referring to them. However, the pagination was hard to figure out, as the hardcopy of one novel was only for that novel, so there were two different kinds of pagination and font used in the book. It could be confusing and metafiction does demand a certain kind of sophisticated reader. Another reason not to like it that much. It is a good change of pace. I am going to start listening to Word is Murder by the same author today. However, this is a different series so it should be a totally different kind of format, so I will see how I get along with this series.
Non-Book activities: I got the components for the salad for tomorrow all done, so I just have to assemble it tomorrow.
Time reading: 18 hours
Time posting:
Food: This morning I had a bagel with cream cheese and then had a ham sandwich for lunch.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 316
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 899 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
Books read from: I am reading Night Rounds by Helene Tursten and continue to slowly read Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. I am determined to finish this book. I finished reading Dark Flood by Deon Meyer. I finished listening to Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz and, since I was traveling I also started and finished listening to book 2 in the Susan Ryeland series - Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz. I will start listening to Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz today.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Dark Flood by Deon Meyer and Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders both by Anthony Horowitz.
Book Thoughts: I was traveling this weekend so I managed to finish several books. On Friday before I left, I finished Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz and I started the second book in the Susan Ryeland series - Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz as I was driving out of town. 18 hours later I finished it just as I drove into the driveway here in Kansas. There are only two books in this series so after listening to both of them I am caught up with this series. Both books are examples of metafiction, and are books within books. I am not sure that I like this kind of format, but listening to them was easy and helped to keep it straight which book was being written about. There were two narrators - one for the Susan Ryeland character and one for the Atticus Pund books. This really helped to keep things straight and both narrators were excellent. I also had hardcopy of the both books, and kept referring to them. However, the pagination was hard to figure out, as the hardcopy of one novel was only for that novel, so there were two different kinds of pagination and font used in the book. It could be confusing and metafiction does demand a certain kind of sophisticated reader. Another reason not to like it that much. It is a good change of pace. I am going to start listening to Word is Murder by the same author today. However, this is a different series so it should be a totally different kind of format, so I will see how I get along with this series.
Non-Book activities: I got the components for the salad for tomorrow all done, so I just have to assemble it tomorrow.
Time reading: 18 hours
Time posting:
Food: This morning I had a bagel with cream cheese and then had a ham sandwich for lunch.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 316
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 899 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
21avatiakh
>20 benitastrnad: I've read and enjoyed both those Susan Ryland books too.
Sunday morning update: 9.45am
Books read from: The Rose Revived by Katie Fforde, Malice by Keigo Higashino, Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius
Books finished: 1 The Rose Revived
Time reading: 3 hours
Snacks: Brunch: Pancake with blueberries & rosehip syrup with latte
Dinner: Moroccan beef tagine, rice, alfajores
Thoughts: Sad about all the violence in Israel
Non-book activities: Visit to CBD and quick browse in Unity Books.
Total books finished: 1 The Rose Revived
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 5 hours
Malice has been quickly put down as I realised that I read it in 2015 and after a few pages I remembered most of what happens.
Woke to three cats cuddled up on my bed, so autumn is setting in as they are outside cats for most of the hot weather.
Sunday morning update: 9.45am
Books read from: The Rose Revived by Katie Fforde, Malice by Keigo Higashino, Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius
Books finished: 1 The Rose Revived
Time reading: 3 hours
Snacks: Brunch: Pancake with blueberries & rosehip syrup with latte
Dinner: Moroccan beef tagine, rice, alfajores
Thoughts: Sad about all the violence in Israel
Non-book activities: Visit to CBD and quick browse in Unity Books.
Total books finished: 1 The Rose Revived
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 5 hours
Malice has been quickly put down as I realised that I read it in 2015 and after a few pages I remembered most of what happens.
Woke to three cats cuddled up on my bed, so autumn is setting in as they are outside cats for most of the hot weather.
22Carmenere
Saturday night: 9:25 pm
Books read from: The Ride of a Lifetime
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3.5 hours
Time posting: 9:25 pm
Snacks: Bean and cheese burrito
Thoughts: I wish i could have done more yard work today, but totally exhausted
Non book activities: worked in the yard, watched Cleveland Guardians
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 7.5 hours
Books read from: The Ride of a Lifetime
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3.5 hours
Time posting: 9:25 pm
Snacks: Bean and cheese burrito
Thoughts: I wish i could have done more yard work today, but totally exhausted
Non book activities: worked in the yard, watched Cleveland Guardians
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 7.5 hours
23alcottacre
Saturday Night Update:
Books read from: The Winners by Fredrik Backman, Betty by Tiffany McDaniel, and The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~1.9 hours
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~3.4 hours
Same as yesterday, I did not get nearly as much time to read today as I had hoped! Too much other stuff going on!
Books read from: The Winners by Fredrik Backman, Betty by Tiffany McDaniel, and The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~1.9 hours
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~3.4 hours
Same as yesterday, I did not get nearly as much time to read today as I had hoped! Too much other stuff going on!
24susanna.fraser
Sunday midday:
Books read from: The Wrath to Come
Books finished: The Wrath to Come
Time reading: 7 hours
Time posting: 12:00 PM
Snacks: Heading out soon for Easter brunch
Thoughts: This book made a pretty persuasive case for Gone With the Wind as a critical text for illustrating and even shaping American culture, particularly but not exclusively around race relations and political and cultural power.
Non-book activities: Easter vigil at church last night
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 7 hours
Books read from: The Wrath to Come
Books finished: The Wrath to Come
Time reading: 7 hours
Time posting: 12:00 PM
Snacks: Heading out soon for Easter brunch
Thoughts: This book made a pretty persuasive case for Gone With the Wind as a critical text for illustrating and even shaping American culture, particularly but not exclusively around race relations and political and cultural power.
Non-book activities: Easter vigil at church last night
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 7 hours
25witchyrichy
Sunday afternoon:
Books read: The Book of Esther: A Commentary and History by Benjamin Segal, The Head Trip by Jeff Warren
Books Finished: Murder on the Pneumatic Railway
Non-book activities: camping preparation, two dog walks, workout, ice skating and tennis
Books read: The Book of Esther: A Commentary and History by Benjamin Segal, The Head Trip by Jeff Warren
Books Finished: Murder on the Pneumatic Railway
Non-book activities: camping preparation, two dog walks, workout, ice skating and tennis
26benitastrnad
Sunday update
Books read from: I am reading Night Rounds by Helene Tursten and continue to slowly read Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. I am determined to finish this book. I started reading Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester. My new recorded book is Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz today.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Dark Flood by Deon Meyer and Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders both by Anthony Horowitz.
Book Thoughts: I read a bit in Night Rounds this morning. It is the book for April for the Mystery challenge here on LT. It seems to be a much simpler writing style than the first book in the Inspector Huss series, even though it was the second book published it seems like it might have been the first one.
Non-Book activities: Went to Sunrise Service and breakfast this morning at church and then we had a very nice salad lunch here at home.
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: Biscuits and gravy for breakfast, spring pea salad for lunch with bagels and a very nice wine with it.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 316
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 900 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
Books read from: I am reading Night Rounds by Helene Tursten and continue to slowly read Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. I am determined to finish this book. I started reading Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester. My new recorded book is Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz today.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Dark Flood by Deon Meyer and Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders both by Anthony Horowitz.
Book Thoughts: I read a bit in Night Rounds this morning. It is the book for April for the Mystery challenge here on LT. It seems to be a much simpler writing style than the first book in the Inspector Huss series, even though it was the second book published it seems like it might have been the first one.
Non-Book activities: Went to Sunrise Service and breakfast this morning at church and then we had a very nice salad lunch here at home.
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: Biscuits and gravy for breakfast, spring pea salad for lunch with bagels and a very nice wine with it.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 316
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 900 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
27alcottacre
Sunday Night Update:
Books read from: The Winners by Fredrik Backman, Betty by Tiffany McDaniel, The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. Ward, Rachel Calof’s Story by J. Sanford Rikoon (editor), and The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson
Books finished: 1, The Color of Distance
Time reading: ~2.9 hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~6.3 hours
Books read from: The Winners by Fredrik Backman, Betty by Tiffany McDaniel, The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. Ward, Rachel Calof’s Story by J. Sanford Rikoon (editor), and The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson
Books finished: 1, The Color of Distance
Time reading: ~2.9 hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~6.3 hours
28ChrisG1
Monday morning summary:
Books read from: Blindsight by Peter Watts, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Books finished: Same
Pages read - 750-ish...took full advantage of the holiday weekend
Non-book activities: Of course, a wonderful Easter gathering with my sons and their families, a prime rib dinner, board games & general visiting - couldn't have been better!
Books read from: Blindsight by Peter Watts, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Books finished: Same
Pages read - 750-ish...took full advantage of the holiday weekend
Non-book activities: Of course, a wonderful Easter gathering with my sons and their families, a prime rib dinner, board games & general visiting - couldn't have been better!
29thornton37814
I finished The Pirate's Wife by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos on Saturday and Night Rounds by Helene Tursten on Sunday. I've made progress in my audiobook The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves and will probably finish it later today or tomorrow. (I'm off today, but I have other things I might want to do. I'll just see.) I've been keeping up on the usual devotional reads: Morning by Morning and Evening by Evening by Charles Spurgeon; God Sees Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, and The Holy Bible (NASB).
As far as non-book activities, I cross-stitched some, cooked some, went to Easter services at church, attended an online book club meeting, and did my taxes. As I gathered up all my forms to file away, I realized I'd failed to attach one form and had to submit an amended return, even though it made no difference in my taxes.
As far as non-book activities, I cross-stitched some, cooked some, went to Easter services at church, attended an online book club meeting, and did my taxes. As I gathered up all my forms to file away, I realized I'd failed to attach one form and had to submit an amended return, even though it made no difference in my taxes.
30fuzzi
I read almost half of Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman. I can't read his Chee/Leaphorn books back-to-back but enjoy them quite a bit when spaced out. So far none are less than 3 stars for me.
