Social Distancing Readathon #165 - May 12 - 14
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
2alcottacre
I will be in as much as I can be!
3susanna.fraser
I'm in! I've got books due back at the library Sunday that I need to finish.
6nrmay
I’m in.
Still minding grandkids in California. Last 36 hrs have been harrowing with coughing, fever, trip to urgent care, strep throat & medicating 3 yr old.
She’s somewhat better this morning & parents are home later today.
I’m reading The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches in addition to numerous kids’ books.
Still minding grandkids in California. Last 36 hrs have been harrowing with coughing, fever, trip to urgent care, strep throat & medicating 3 yr old.
She’s somewhat better this morning & parents are home later today.
I’m reading The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches in addition to numerous kids’ books.
8benitastrnad
I am also reading this weekend. I hope to spend the entire day on Sunday reading.
9benitastrnad
Friday afternoon update
Books read from: Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candace Millard and I started to read Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester. I continue to slowly read Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. I am listening to This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman
Book Thoughts: I enjoyed reading Cultivating Delight. I have not read any of Ackerman's nonfiction work so found this to be an easy relaxing book to read. Now I have to get it back to Inter-Library Loan.
Non-Book activities: I continue to binge watch a TV show and that eats up lots of my reading time. I also started to work on sorting the boxes of papers from my office. I made it through the first round of dumping and will start a second round next week. I hope to go from 8 boxes of paper to 2.
Time reading: 1 hour reading
Time posting:
Food: yogurt and a banana for breakfast.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 324
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 919 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
Books read from: Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candace Millard and I started to read Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester. I continue to slowly read Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. I am listening to This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman
Book Thoughts: I enjoyed reading Cultivating Delight. I have not read any of Ackerman's nonfiction work so found this to be an easy relaxing book to read. Now I have to get it back to Inter-Library Loan.
Non-Book activities: I continue to binge watch a TV show and that eats up lots of my reading time. I also started to work on sorting the boxes of papers from my office. I made it through the first round of dumping and will start a second round next week. I hope to go from 8 boxes of paper to 2.
Time reading: 1 hour reading
Time posting:
Food: yogurt and a banana for breakfast.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 324
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 919 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
10alcottacre
Friday Night Update:
Books read from: Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch (audiobook), Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young, False Prophet by Faye Kellerman, and Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.9 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~2.9 hours
Books read from: Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch (audiobook), Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young, False Prophet by Faye Kellerman, and Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.9 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~2.9 hours
11susanna.fraser
Friday night:
Books read from: An Immense World
Books finished: An Immense World
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 10:25 PM
Snacks: pudding
Thoughts: One book due Sunday down, 2 to go (and only one of those is an ebook loan--I can always cheat and take the physical book back late, though I try to be a good library patron and not do that too often).
Non-book activities: Work, doctor's appointment, cooked dinner
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 3 hours
Books read from: An Immense World
Books finished: An Immense World
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 10:25 PM
Snacks: pudding
Thoughts: One book due Sunday down, 2 to go (and only one of those is an ebook loan--I can always cheat and take the physical book back late, though I try to be a good library patron and not do that too often).
Non-book activities: Work, doctor's appointment, cooked dinner
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 3 hours
12Cecilturtle
Saturday evening
It's been a super busy weekend already!
Friday afternoon update
Books read from: Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy, Un café avec Marie by Serge Bouchard, Subdivided by Jay Pitter, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Book Thoughts: I'm glad to be finished with The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing: it's a rewarding but tough and long book.
Non-Book activities: Meditation group on Friday night and a full day at Ottawa's marvellous Tulip Festival!
Time reading: 3 h
Time posting: 7:30 pm
Food: amazing truffle pizza!
It's been a super busy weekend already!
Friday afternoon update
Books read from: Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy, Un café avec Marie by Serge Bouchard, Subdivided by Jay Pitter, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Book Thoughts: I'm glad to be finished with The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing: it's a rewarding but tough and long book.
Non-Book activities: Meditation group on Friday night and a full day at Ottawa's marvellous Tulip Festival!
Time reading: 3 h
Time posting: 7:30 pm
Food: amazing truffle pizza!
13susanna.fraser
Saturday early evening:
Books read from: Speak, Okinawa
Books finished: Speak, Okinawa
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 5:50 PM
Snacks: potato chips
Thoughts: So weirdly warm today for mid-May.
Non-book activities: shopping
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 7 hours
Books read from: Speak, Okinawa
Books finished: Speak, Okinawa
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 5:50 PM
Snacks: potato chips
Thoughts: So weirdly warm today for mid-May.
Non-book activities: shopping
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 7 hours
14alcottacre
Saturday Night Update:
Books read from: Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch (audiobook), Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young, False Prophet by Faye Kellerman, and Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.5 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~5.4 hours
Books read from: Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch (audiobook), Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young, False Prophet by Faye Kellerman, and Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.5 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~5.4 hours
16benitastrnad
Sunday morning update
Books read from: Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candace Millard. I should finish Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester and have started Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens by Stefan Buczacki. I continue to slowly read Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. I am listening to This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel and started listening to Manderley Forever by Tatiana de Rosnay.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman and yesterday I finished listening to This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel.
Book Thoughts: I finished listening to This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel and throughly enjoyed this tragic comedic family story. That was partly due to the exceptional narration. The reader, Gabra Zackman, managed to convey all of the emotions that happen in a family filled with loving parents and children, that was done purely on the talents of that one reader. Along the way, the book manages to do some gentle teaching about transgender issues and how it affects families. This is a very compassionate book, and I would highly recommend it to readers who like to listen to recorded books. And, of course, to readers. This book may be classed as women's literature, but that should not detour others from reading this book.
Non-Book activities: I went up to Gadsden yesterday to knit. I discovered that the public library has a knitting group that meets on Tuesday mornings so I plan on joining them this coming week. It will be the last time for a month or so, because I will be driving back to Kansas next week to spend two weeks with my mother. Today I plan on getting ready for my tea party next Saturday.
Time reading: 1 hour reading and 3 hours of listening.
Time posting:
Food: my Sunday morning hazelnut cappuccino from Starbucks.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 325
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 923 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
Books read from: Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candace Millard. I should finish Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester and have started Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens by Stefan Buczacki. I continue to slowly read Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. I am listening to This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel and started listening to Manderley Forever by Tatiana de Rosnay.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman and yesterday I finished listening to This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel.
Book Thoughts: I finished listening to This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel and throughly enjoyed this tragic comedic family story. That was partly due to the exceptional narration. The reader, Gabra Zackman, managed to convey all of the emotions that happen in a family filled with loving parents and children, that was done purely on the talents of that one reader. Along the way, the book manages to do some gentle teaching about transgender issues and how it affects families. This is a very compassionate book, and I would highly recommend it to readers who like to listen to recorded books. And, of course, to readers. This book may be classed as women's literature, but that should not detour others from reading this book.
Non-Book activities: I went up to Gadsden yesterday to knit. I discovered that the public library has a knitting group that meets on Tuesday mornings so I plan on joining them this coming week. It will be the last time for a month or so, because I will be driving back to Kansas next week to spend two weeks with my mother. Today I plan on getting ready for my tea party next Saturday.
Time reading: 1 hour reading and 3 hours of listening.
Time posting:
Food: my Sunday morning hazelnut cappuccino from Starbucks.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 325
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 923 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
17alcottacre
Sunday Night Update:
Books read from: Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young, False Prophet by Faye Kellerman, Ali and Nino by Kurban Said, and Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Books finished: 2, Half of a Yellow Sun and Girls with Sharp Sticks
Time reading: ~4.25 hours
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~9.65 hours
Books read from: Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young, False Prophet by Faye Kellerman, Ali and Nino by Kurban Said, and Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Books finished: 2, Half of a Yellow Sun and Girls with Sharp Sticks
Time reading: ~4.25 hours
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~9.65 hours
18benitastrnad
Sunday night update
Books read from: Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candace Millard. I have started Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens by Stefan Buczacki. I continue to slowly read Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. I started listening to Manderley Forever by Tatiana de Rosnay.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman and yesterday I finished listening to This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel. I finished reading Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester today at lunch.
Book Thoughts: I finished reading Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester for the LT Nonfiction Challenge. The category this month is literary biography. This is NOT a literary biography, so I will report that on the thread, so I started listening to a different literary biography Manderley Forever by Tatiana de Rosnay. This is a very strange biography. It is written in first-person narrative style and it is really weird. Can that make it a biography? Wouldn't that make it an autobiography? It is disconcerting as a reader, but Daphne Du Maurier is a fascinating subject and I do want to learn more about her so I will persevere - at least for a little bit longer.
Non-Book activities: I spent the afternoon working on the menu for the tea party next Saturday. Then I sent out the recipes to the group. I tried for the entire 2 hours to place an order with Land's End and couldn't make any progress. I finally called them on the 800 number and placed the order. They gave me the digital discounts when I explained why I was calling. I should be set for summer clothes. I was surprised to realize that I didn't really have summer clothes. When I was working all of my clothes were year round clothes. Now I need clothes appropriate to wear outside.
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting:
Food: lunch at the Indian restaurant and another coffee at Starbucks while I glommed onto their high-speed internet.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 326
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 925 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
Books read from: Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candace Millard. I have started Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens by Stefan Buczacki. I continue to slowly read Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. I started listening to Manderley Forever by Tatiana de Rosnay.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman and yesterday I finished listening to This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel. I finished reading Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester today at lunch.
Book Thoughts: I finished reading Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester for the LT Nonfiction Challenge. The category this month is literary biography. This is NOT a literary biography, so I will report that on the thread, so I started listening to a different literary biography Manderley Forever by Tatiana de Rosnay. This is a very strange biography. It is written in first-person narrative style and it is really weird. Can that make it a biography? Wouldn't that make it an autobiography? It is disconcerting as a reader, but Daphne Du Maurier is a fascinating subject and I do want to learn more about her so I will persevere - at least for a little bit longer.
Non-Book activities: I spent the afternoon working on the menu for the tea party next Saturday. Then I sent out the recipes to the group. I tried for the entire 2 hours to place an order with Land's End and couldn't make any progress. I finally called them on the 800 number and placed the order. They gave me the digital discounts when I explained why I was calling. I should be set for summer clothes. I was surprised to realize that I didn't really have summer clothes. When I was working all of my clothes were year round clothes. Now I need clothes appropriate to wear outside.
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting:
Food: lunch at the Indian restaurant and another coffee at Starbucks while I glommed onto their high-speed internet.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 326
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 925 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
19ChrisG1
Weekend wrap-up:
Books read from: Network Effect by Martha Wells, Have Space Suite, Will Travel by Robert Heinlein
Books finished: Same
Pages read: 500-ish
Non-book activities: Family gathering for mother's day, of course! My daughter came for the weekend with her husband & almost 2 year-old girl, who is the star of the show. Good times.
Books read from: Network Effect by Martha Wells, Have Space Suite, Will Travel by Robert Heinlein
Books finished: Same
Pages read: 500-ish
Non-book activities: Family gathering for mother's day, of course! My daughter came for the weekend with her husband & almost 2 year-old girl, who is the star of the show. Good times.
20Cecilturtle
I forgot to close off the weekend
Monday update
Books read from: Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy, Un café avec Marie by Serge Bouchard, Subdivided by Jay Pitter, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald and No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Total read from: 6
Non-Book activities: Beautiful hike at the Forêt écologie de la Forêt LaBlanche and crocheting.
Time reading: 5 h
Monday update
Books read from: Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy, Un café avec Marie by Serge Bouchard, Subdivided by Jay Pitter, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald and No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Total read from: 6
Non-Book activities: Beautiful hike at the Forêt écologie de la Forêt LaBlanche and crocheting.
Time reading: 5 h
21nrmay
weekend update
Books:
Finished Wolf Hollow, 2/3 way through The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches,
and read lots of kids' books including Ride a Purple Pelican and the Caldecotte Honor book Rumpelstiltskin by Zelinsky.
Other activity:
Got home from visiting grandkids late last night. Youngest has recovered from strep. Missing them but we'll see them again in July.
Watered pots and basket, filled feeders & birdbath, laundry. Talked to my ndighbor. Called my sis to catch up & make summer plans!
sunny, 79 F.
Books:
Finished Wolf Hollow, 2/3 way through The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches,
and read lots of kids' books including Ride a Purple Pelican and the Caldecotte Honor book Rumpelstiltskin by Zelinsky.
Other activity:
Got home from visiting grandkids late last night. Youngest has recovered from strep. Missing them but we'll see them again in July.
Watered pots and basket, filled feeders & birdbath, laundry. Talked to my ndighbor. Called my sis to catch up & make summer plans!
sunny, 79 F.
