Labor Day Readathon - Social Distancing #181 - September 1 - 4

Welcome to another readathon!

It's Labor Day in the United States so we'll be reading through Monday.

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

Mom's doing good. She's been moved to a less critical floor of the rehab hospital. And she's needing less pain medicine. She's also able to start eating soft food now, she still has the feeding tube but they're phasing it out. She's talking quite well now. Because of the head injury she's not quite right mentally, she hallucinates some things, hopefully that will get better soon.

>2 SilverWolf28: Good news all the way around! Hopefully the hallucinations will pass soon.

I am in for at least Friday and Saturday. Catey is coming into town on Sunday, so likely not then.

I'm in again. Currently reading The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor, and The Evangelical Imagination by Karen Swallow Prior.

Hello everyone! I've never done a readathon here before, so I'm looking forward to this! I joined the group last year and I haven't been too active (which is why I didn't realize until a couple days ago that there were readathons!). I'm really close to reaching the goal (just finished 71!) so I'm thinking that a readathon this weekend may be just the thing. I won't be able to read the whole time, but I'll be hiding with my books as much as I can. :)

I am going to participate this weekend. My mother was taken to the hospital this morning so I am not sure how long I will be at my house. I may have another long trip to Kansas in my immediate future.

I'm reading this weekend!- finishing I Have Some Questions For You.

After being away for two weekends, I am blessedly home and planning to read!

>6 benitastrnad: sorry to hear that about your mother.

>2 SilverWolf28: better news!

Long weekend, with more time for books, but the chores are crying out for attention.

I just realized that it's Labor Day weekend which means we'll be reading through Monday. I edited the first post and asked drneutron to edit the title.

Books read from: At Canaan’s Edge by Taylor Branch (audiobook), Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Origin in Death by J.D. Robb, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara, Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey, and The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
Books finished: 3, At Canaan's Edge, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Time of Wonder
Time reading: ~3.3 hours

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~3.3 hours

>5 RaeCreated: Congratulations on being so close to the 75 books read mark! I hope you enjoy the readathon.

>6 benitastrnad: Sorry to hear about your mother, Benita. I hope things are not too serious.

Saturday Night Update:

Books read from: The Towers of Silence by Paul Scott (audiobook), Origin in Death by J.D. Robb, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara, The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis, The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker, and Windhall by Ava Barry
Books finished: 1, Origin in Death
Time reading: ~4.1 hours

Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: ~7.4 hours

Sunday morning update:

Books finished: The Unsinkable Greta James
Books read from: September by Rosamunde Pilcher, The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia

Non reading activities: planted my fall vegies including cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, and lettuce, worked on the fall semester

Weekend wrap-up
Books read from: Next Supper: The End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After by Corey Mintz. Venus in Copper by Lindsey Davis. I am listening to All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot.

Books finished: Venus in Copper by Lindsey Davis

Book Thoughts: I finished reading Venus in Copper for the LT Mystery Series Challenge. This was the August book and I had requested it through Inter-Library Loan. I was not able to pick it up until I got back from Kansas and since it was the August book, I decided to devote the holiday weekend to reading it. It was a very entertaining mystery novel and I learn much through its examination of ancient Roman life. I was unable to get into LT for most of the entire weekend so was unable to post here to the group. I was surprised how much I missed everybody. It will be impossible for me to catch up on the threads after an entire weekend away.

Non-Book activities: I went to Gadsden and spent Saturday knitting with the ladies and enjoyed every minute of it. I only bought two new skeins of yarn so I am going to actually catch up on some of my projects. I have two started that I want to finish for Christmas presents, so time to quit buying and start knitting.

Time reading over the weekend: 6 hours
Time posting:
Food:

Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 346
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1003 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020

I started rereading The Cardinal of the Kremlin but won't finish it by tonight.

Weekend summary:

Books read from: The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor, The Evangelical Imagination by Karen Swallow Prior, and The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurtry.
Books Finished: The Complete Stories
Pages read: 450-ish

Non-reading activities: Nephew's wedding, so our daughter & her family stayed with us - good times.

I didn't read as much as I wanted to, but I did get some in!

Books read from: The Awakening
Books finished: The Jane Austen Book Club

Thoughts: I did not enjoy the JABC at all and had to plod through it. It was for a book club. I may just follow my instincts next time and pass on book club for a month if they pick one I really have no desire to read. I have too many books and too little time to read them! :) I made it almost halfway through my second book, (203/435 pages), this weekend. I have some misgivings and I'm not sure if I'll give it a high rating when I'm done, but I am reading through it much more quickly than the last book, so I'm happy about that.

Non-book activities: Journaling, spending time with family and friends, cooking, etc. For the first time I can remember in many years, I didn't have to work during Labor Day weekend and I made sure to spend the time not-laboring. :) I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

Total books finished:1
Total read from:1

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353486