Social Distancing Readathon #201 - January 19 - 21

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

I'm in! Not going anywhere this weekend. Still snowed in. It's not going to get above freezing again until Monday.

Include me too! I'm not budging until Monday, maybe :0/

I'm in again - currently reading The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault.

I started another book by Avi, The Man Who Was Poe

I've read three chapters of 1812: War with America today. I'm switching to lighter reading now, or maybe television. I'll see what I feel like. Supper was a hard-boiled egg and a peanut butter and banana sandwich.

I’m in.

Very cold here & I’m still coughing so I’ll be reading by the fire & catching up on tv shows this weekend.

Books:
Just finished the remarkably good novel, Have You Seen Luis Velez?
Sure that this will be one of my favorites for the year. 7th book read in Jan so far.

Husband made vegetable beef soup for dinner.

Oh, good there is a read-a-thon! I’m in!

Karen O

On the agenda for this weekend are:
Canary Girls by Jennifer Chiaverini
Vanishing Cornwall by Daphne du Maurier

I'll also be reading devotional stuff.

Friday update:

Books read from: 2 Crying in H Mart & The Life We Bury
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: Saturday 7:45am
Snacks:
Thoughts: The book I'm reading tells of vivid memories of Viet Nam conflict that are difficult to shake off.
Non-book activities: Watched travel you tubers

Total books finished:
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 2 hours

Friday

Books read from: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, Black Futures ed. Kimberly Drew
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4.25 hrs.
Food: fish baked in parchment paper, Bobo's mint brownie bite, Bob's chocolate chip bar, Ruffles, orange ginger tea, fruit smoothie
Non-book activities: played knitten on my phone, Yin yoga

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 4.25 hrs.

Friday: I finished Mort and found my copy of Sourcery and started in on it. I opened the Kindle app and read from A Thorn Among Fae. We went to Walmart for prescriptions and walked out with a new vacuum then went to eat at BJ's.
Books read from: 3
Books finished: 1
Time spent reading: 1 hour
Eaten: Ribeye for dinner, leftover salad about 11:30 PM.

I've read a bit of Life on the Mississippi this morning, and I'm going to read a bit more while my chicken and rice soup cooks. I invited a couple of neighbors to come and eat lunch with me. We're all getting stir crazy after beeing snowed in for so long. Breakfast was a chocolate chip muffin and tea. I also vacuumed this morning. I did the laundry yesterday so I wouldn't have to run the washer or dryer this weekend when we've got temperatures in the teens and even single digits.

Saturday morning.

Books read from: Zilot & Other Rhymes by Bob Odenkirk, ill. By Erin Odenkirk. Wind in the Willows.

Books finished: Zilot

Time reading: 2 hours

Time posting: 11:00 am Central time

Snacks: Feeling a little off, so had a banana and a cup of coffee.

Thoughts: The “Zilot” book is a happy and humorous book of poetry for kids and adults. Terrific illustrations. I think kids would really like this, and it would be fun to read aloud.

Non-book activities: Read the newspapers and two magazines (Science Illustrated and McCall’s Quilting).

Weekend totals:

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 2 hours

I'm in, but beginning late. I'm looking forward to working on the Mark Twain challenge in Am. Lit. and a book about Cold War era submarines and submariners. Hard to settle comfortably when the husky princess is constantly begging me to play in the snow with her!

>12 elorin:
Oddly, I just ordered a robot vac from Amazon this morning...

Sat afternoon

Books:
Finished Have you seen Luis Velez?, highly recommended.
Now reading the fantasy Thorn by I Khanani

lunch - eggsalad sandwich and an orange.

other bk activity -
Trying to help my BIL find an affordable copy of Wayside & Woodland Fungi that has the Beatrix Potter mushroom illustrations. Found it on Amazon for 134.00.

Sunny and cold, 31 F. (-1 C.)

I've read several chapters of Life on the Mississippi and a couple of chapters of 1812: War with America today. I'm getting too sleepy to read so I'm switching to streaming TV. I had a late lunch today with a couple of neighbors - chicken and rice soup, grilled cheese sandwiches, apple streusel pie, and hot tea. It was nice to see other people after being cooped up most of the week due to the weather.

Sunday morning.

Books read from: Eve’s Diary by Mark Twain, Wind in the Willows, She-Hulk vol 3: Girl Can’t Help It, Banned Books, Burned Books (“Huckleberry Finn and Race in America,” “To Kill a Mockingbird, Then and Now”).

Books finished: Wind in the Willows, She-Hulk

Time reading: 3 hours

Time posting: 8:30 am Central time

Snacks: crackers and cheese, caramel rice cakes

Thoughts: Really enjoyed my reread of Wind in the Willows.

Non-book activities: Read the newspapers and two magazines (Vanity Fair and Archeology).

Weekend totals:

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 5 hours

Saturday

Books read from: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Books finished: Washington Black
Time reading: 5.0 hrs.
Food: turkey tacos, Siete mini Bunuelos, homemade gf vegan chocolate chip pecan brownie, homemade vegan truffles my sister made for me (caramel, chocolate ganache, peanut butter), orange ginger mint tea, oat milk hot chocolate
Non-book activities: played Knitten on my phone, yoga, watched Steven Universe, wrote more of the first draft of my second novel longhand

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 9.25 hrs.

Edited to indicate which book I finished.

>16 nrmay: While I long for a Roomba or such, we have a mixture of tile and carpet and I have heard they don't deal well with the repeated change in elevation and texture.

Saturday day: I read from A Thorn Among Fae in the morning. An afternoon date with my girlfriend took longer than expected and then good friends took us to Red Robin for dinner. I snuck in some reading before bed.
Books read from: 1
Books finished: 0
Time spent reading: 1 hour 15 minutes
Eaten: Whataburger French fries, BLTA croissant, caramel apple milkshake.

>20 elorin:
So after initial frustration and irritation becuase I couldn't get the new robo vac to work . . I just tried it again and it appears to work well. Never had one before and I did not by the high end $1500 model but a very modest one with the best review and on sale. Supposed to work on floor and low-pile carpet though it did get hung up once or twice at the edge of a braided rug. Jury is still out on this but I guess I'll keep it.

Sunday morning catch-up

Books:
Enjoying Thorn so far. I do like a good fantasy.
And reading Sunday paper though I'm annoyed that we didn't get our Sunday NYTimes today. Our NP delivery is consistently unreliable. :\
I need to get hold of Hello Beautiful for book club next month. I'm on the waitlist at 2 libraries but don't think I'll get it in time. I don't want to buy it; maybe I can borrow a copy.

I plan to spend much of the day reading. Cough is a bit better and this should be our last super cold day. I plan to get out for a walk tomorrow after a full 3 weeks recuperationg from RSV. Amazing that it's supposed to warm up to the 60s this week.

Thoughts:
"Life is either a daring adventure . . or nothing." Helen Keller
I need some adventure.

Sunday morning update:

Church was cancelled this morning due to the condition of the church parking lot. It's still well below freezing here, but the end is in sight. It's supposed to warm up tomorrow afternoon. :-)

I've read several chapters of Life on the Mississippi this morning. Breakfast was a chocolate chip muffin, yogurt, and tea.

Saturday update:

Books read from: 2 Crying in H Mart & The Life We Bury
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: Sunday 12:25pm
Snacks: I did not stay in all day as I had planned, instead I met my former co-worker and friend of 35 years for lunch at our favorite Hungarian restaurant. Driving was horrible but arrived and returned home safe and sound.
Thoughts: I just knew who the murderer was when his name was introduced at the beginning of the book.
Non-book activities: Watched the Ravens beat Houston in NFL playoffs.

Total books finished:
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 5 hours

Sun afternoon

I managed to putter around till 3p when l meant to be reading all day. I excel at puttering. 🙄

Did manage to read a story for the mystery short story challenge - “The Kidnapping” from Tales: Short Stories featuring Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford by Charles Todd.
Still reading Thorn by Khanani.

Brunch - HB egg, granola, yogurt, coffee.

Thoughts: I’m under a quilt but my feet are cold. Turn on the fire? Do l need a nap? Do l really want to stir from the couch? Apparently this is a lazy day for me. .

I've read a couple of chapters of 1812: War with America and I think that's it for the weekend, unless I listen to an audiobook in a little while. It's been a successful reading weekend for me. I didn't finish anything, but I made good progress on my current reads.

I've read this weekend from:
Canary Girls by Jennifer Chiaverini
Vanishing Cornwall by Daphne DuMaurier
Trusting God with Today by Charles Stanley
Praying God's Will for Your Life by Stormie Omartian
Bible (NASB)

Sunday evening wrap-up (since this morning).

Books read from: Jane Kenyon: Collected Poems, Without: Poems by Donald Hill, Watership Down: The Graphic Novel by Richard Adams

Books finished: Jane Kenyon: Collected Poems, Without: Poems by Donald Hill

Time reading: 3 hours

Time posting: 9:00 p.m. Central time

Snacks: ham and Swiss sandwiches, kettle chips for supper

Thoughts: Kenyon is now one of my favorite poets, and I plan to read more Hill. Hill’s collection, about the death of his wife (Jane Kenyon) had me crying throughout, but they were healing tears of grief. I lost my husband at the end of March, and I identified so strongly with Hill’s poems. It was a very emotional day of reading for me, but very much worth the tears. Trigger warning: these books will break your heart.

Non-book activities: Finished my watch of the one season of “Monday, Monday” on Britbox. It was surprisingly good, and I wish there were more episodes.

Weekend totals:

Total books finished: 5
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: 8 hours

I read some of my Poe book, but things were a little rough this past week and I needed an escape, so I picked up an old favorite Rimrunners by CJ Cherryh.

Sunday update:

Books read from: 3 Crying in H Mart & The Life We Bury & Paris a memoir
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 5 hours
Time posting: Monday 8:55 am
Snacks: Popcorn, leftovers from restaurant
Thoughts: Sad Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers won’t be advancing to the next stage of playoff.
Non-book activities: Watched the Tampa Bay and Detroit playoff game.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 10 hours

Monday morning, almost afternoon, and I'm just getting to the update/completion...

Books read from: Poopie Suits and Cowboy Boots, Frank Hood (Kindle); Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel, Christopher L. Bennett (Kindle); Compulsory, Martha Wells (Kindle); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain (Audible); I Remain in Darkness, Annie Ernaux (paperback).

Time reading:
Fri: 0
Sat: 2.25
Sun: 3.75

Snacks: chai
Thoughts: Still scattered. Ernaux's book focused them a bit ... and then off they wandered!
Non-book activities: Bundling up to brave the windchill and then not breaking my neck on the icy everything as I tried to walk the dog. She's a husky, and not very pleased that her owner is such a wimp about the cold!

Total books finished: Just Wells' short story - given that it was 8 pages in length, I could manage that!
Total read from: 4 plus 1 short story
Total time reading: 6h, not including the newspapers and book reviews!

Reading Weekend Wrap-up
Books read from: Unwarrented: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. (I didn't read from Discord of Gods this weekend.) I got a great start on Becoming Dr. Seuss by Brian Jay Jones. I am close to finishing listening to Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.

Books finished: none

Book Thoughts: I am about to finish Seveneves and have found this science fiction book to be filled with extensions of current science. Very interesting.

Non-Book activities: planning a funeral

Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: brother-in-law is doing the cooking.

Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 381
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1079.5 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.

Weekend summary:

Books read from: The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault, Just Show Up by Drew Dyck, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Books finished: The Last of the Wine and Just Show Up

Pages read: 200-ish

Non-reading activities: Birthday dinner with family, watched NFL playoffs, had my first rehearsal with a new choir.

I read from A Thorn Among Fae, Atom Bomb Baby (ER book), and Sourcery.

Books Finished: 0
Books Read From: 3
Time Spent Reading: a few hours (I didn't keep track)

Other activities: Clearing off the top of the dresser. Sleeping. Reading LT threads.

Sunday

Books read from: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Black Futures ed. Kimberly Drew
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3.0 hrs.
Food: baked fish in parchment paper, homemade gf vegan chocolate chip pecan brownie, homemade vegan truffles my sister made for me (chocolate ganache, peanut butter), orange lemonade tea, nibbles at dismal results of attempt to make a drop cookie recipe gf & vegan
Non-book activities: played Knitten on my phone, restorative yoga, nap, wrote more of the first draft of my second novel longhand

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 12.25 hrs.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/357793