Social Distancing Readathon #227 - July 26 - 28

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 doing Dewy's 24 hour readathon Friday night to Saturday night with people from around the world. So I'll post updates here

I’m in! I was away on vacation last weekend but got back yesterday. It’s uncomfortably warm and sweaty, but we’re supposed to get cooler temperatures and rain during the weekend so it’ll be perfect reading weather.

>2 The_Hibernator: Oo, is there a link for that, Rachel? I am curious although my CFS picked this weekend of all weekends to kick in.

I am in again, Silver, after missing a couple of weekends in a row out of town. I have a bunch of TIOLI books that I need to finish! Hopefully CFS will take pity on me.

In! Still working on Horse and kind of bopping between a few other books this week. Thank you for organizing the R-A-Th!

I’m in!
Reading in California this weekend. I’ll be reading a lot to the granddaughters. 😄

Currently reading Sisters in Crime 2 and
The Secret Book of Flora Lea

Sunny, 63 F/17 C by the SF Bay.

I've just returned from vacay in Florida and as reading wasn't a high priority for the past couple of weeks, I am way behind on my July TBR.
So, yes, I'm definitely in!
I'll be reading Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
First though to take a walk while listening to The Secret Life of Groceries
I'll be taking occasional breaks for Olympic watching.

>4 alcottacre: Hi Stasia! The readathon happens on Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/133888-dewey-s-24-hour-read-a-thon?fbclid=I...

And Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/deweys24hourreadathon/?ref=share&mibextid=NS...

>8 The_Hibernator: Thank you, Rachel. I will definitely not be participating this time - CFS is taking it out on me right now - but maybe next time!

Why don't we have a 24-hour readathon at some point? lol

>9 alcottacre: You mean you and me? I'd be happy to add a 24hr sprint onto this readathon sometime, but I wouldn't want to compete with silver's readathon.

This 24hr one will be fun for me because Aaron and D14 are joining. It starts in 5 minutes.

Books read from:

Alan Turing The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges 20 minutes
Mr Ballen Podcast 64 minutes
Behave, by Robert Sapolsky 99 minutes
Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan 17 minutes
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel 61 minutes
Nurk, by Ursula Vernon 23 minutes

Books finished: none

Time reading: 284 minutes

>10 The_Hibernator: Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of the entire group, but hey! I am up for it although I obviously have to have a time where CFS decides to leave me alone.

I hope you, Aaron, and D14 have a great time and get lots of books read!

Friday Night Update (sorry, I was too tired to do it last night):

Books read from: The White Rhino Hotel by Bartle Bull, Classic Crimes by William Roughead, Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig, and The Paris Apartment by Kelly Bowen
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.4 hours + listening to audiobook

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~2.4 hours + listening to audiobook

Friday Night Update (I fell asleep reading and had to run out early this morning to hit the Farmers Market:

Books read from: Heaven & Earth grocery store and The Secret Life of Groceries
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours + listening to audiobook as I took a walk

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading:2 hours

Saturday Update:

Books read from: Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Books finished: 0
Time reading: I don't know the time but I read about 75 pages.

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: Maybe 3 1/2 hours

Saturday Night Update:

Books read from: The White Rhino Hotel by Bartle Bull (audiobook), Classic Crimes by William Roughead, Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig, and The Paris Apartment by Kelly Bowen
Books finished: 1, Classic Crimes
Time reading: 2 hours + listening to audiobook

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~4.4 hours + listening to audiobook

Sat. evening
Reading in Lake Tahoe while on family vacation with our son and his family.

Read stories from SPIDER magazine to the granddaughters.
Still reading Sisters in Crime 2

Saturday update

Books read from:

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami 88 minutes
Behave, by Robert Sapolsky 51 minutes
Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan 43 minutes
Mr Ballen Podcast 104 minutes
The Three Little Guinea Pigs, by Erica S Perl 5 minutes
When Glitter Met Glue, by Karen Kilpatrick 5 minutes

Books finished:

The Three Little Guinea Pigs, by Erica S Perl
When Glitter Met Glue, by Karen Kilpatrick

Time reading: 296 minutes

Total books finished: 2 picture books
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: 580 minutes

Sunday Roundup

Books read from: I am reading Real Life of the Parthenon by Patricia Vigderman. Buzz, Sting, Bite by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson. I am listening to Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War by Madeleine K. Albright.

Books finished: A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

Book Thoughts: I listened to my first 5 star fiction book of the year. A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum is outstanding. It is an immigration story and a dramatic account of women in Islam. It is a story about Palestinian immigrants to Brooklyn, New York in the 1990's and how they translated their Palestinian life and customs to their new world. The story is told in the alternating voices of three women. Two immigrant women and the third is a second generation immigrant born in the USA and trying to find a path between the closed and locked world of her grandparents and mother and that of the world in which she lives. It was superbly told and the spoken medium of the recorded book worked very well with this novel. There were three different narrators and all three did a grand job of telling the story of the three different women. I highly recommend this book, and hope that more LT readers will pick up this book and read it.

We listened to Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright and are enjoying it. We have only about 2 hours left to listen to and we hope to finish that up as we drive around Bozeman. This memoir has surprised me. It is less of a memoir than I anticipated. It is also a very good history of Czechoslovakia from 1937 - 1947. There is a great deal (and I mean the book is almost a WWII history of Czechoslovakia) of Czech history all the way from 1918 to the early 2000's. The parts I am finding the most interesting are the parts that involve Madeleine Albright's family history. But altogether it is a combination of WWII history and family and personal memoir. Good stuff in this book for the person interested in learning about Central European history and how that part of the world got to now.

Non-Book activities: I am in Bozeman where we hauled some of the stuff from my mother's house. I will be here two, maybe three days, and will head back to Kansas. It will take me two days to make the drive. Then I have cleaning up to do in the house before it assumes a semblance of normal. It was a long trip and in close quarters so there were some tense times between my sister and I (mostly regarding the driving style of the two of us) but we made it and are still talking to each other, so all is good.

Reading Time Today: 1 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 1 hours
Time listening: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: Focaccia at a French bakery

Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 442
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1322.5 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.

Weekend summary:

Books read from: Waylander by David Gemmell
Books finished: Waylander
Pages read: 300-ish

Non-book activities: Attended a minor league baseball game with both of my sons, a rare treat. The home team won.

Sunday

Books read from:

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami 52 minutes
Super Rabbit Boy Blasts Off, by Thomas Flintham 16 minutes
Mr Ballen podcast 32 minutes

Books finished:

Super Rabbit Boy Blasts Off, by Thomas Flintham

Time reading: 100 minutes

Weekend
Total books finished: 2 picture books, 1 early reader chapter book
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: 680 minutes

Sunday Night Update:

Books read from: The White Rhino Hotel by Bartle Bull (audiobook), Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig, The Paris Apartment by Kelly Bowen, and Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Books finished: 1, Dancing at the Rascal Fair and The Paris Apartment
Time reading: ~1.8 hours + listening to audiobook

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ~6.2 hours + listening to audiobook

Stupid CFS rained on my reading parade this weekend!

Week-end roundup

Books:
only 4 stories to go in Sisters in Crime 2. Hoping to finish today.
I read Miss Rumphius to my granddaughter, and another story from SPIDER magazine. Still trying to catch up with a story a day.

Other activity:
Went to the beach with the family on Sunday. I’m playing many games of SORRY! with the grandies. They love that they beat me every time. Completed 2 jigsaw puzzles. Watching Olympics!

Super late reporting back ... nor a lot to report ... lovely, low humidity and some domestic projects kept me busy away from the books this weekend.

Books read from: The Knowledge, Martha Grimes (Libby audiobook); By All Means Available, Michael G. Vickers (hardbound); Horse, Geraldine Brooks (hardbound); The Submarine Six, Tom Lewis (paperback).

Time reading:

Fri: .5
Sat: 6.75
Sun: 1.5
Snacks: cherries
Thoughts: Home repair at this house either means doing the same project twice or many, many trips back and forth to stores to get the weirdo custom sizes required.
Non-book activities: See above.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 8.75

(edited because 30 seconds after I posted I realized the first book was incorrect!)

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/362397