Social Distancing Readathon #229 - August 9 - 11
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2024
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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 am in again, Silver. Thank you for hosting again!
3nrmay
I’m in and starting early to celebrate National Book Lovers Day!
Hoping to finish The Secret Book of Flora Lea today. I’m sure l picked this one after a tip from an LT member.
Hoping to finish The Secret Book of Flora Lea today. I’m sure l picked this one after a tip from an LT member.
4benitastrnad
I will be participating this weekend. I hope to get to spend more time reading this weekend than the last two weekends.
5Carmenere
I am in! I've got two book club books to finish and of course the Booker Long List to address! Busy busy busy
>3 nrmay: I read Flora Lea a couple of months ago and enjoyed it.
This weekend I'm finishing The Berry Pickers and although the theme is similar, I'm not enjoying it as much.
>3 nrmay: I read Flora Lea a couple of months ago and enjoyed it.
This weekend I'm finishing The Berry Pickers and although the theme is similar, I'm not enjoying it as much.
6nrmay
>5 Carmenere:
And another with the missing sister and London Blitz themes that l really liked was Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner.
And another with the missing sister and London Blitz themes that l really liked was Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner.
7ChrisG1
I'm in again! Currently reading Jericho's Road by Elmer Kelton and Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose.
9benitastrnad
Friday Start-up
Books read from: Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman. Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason. For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds: Essays by Jennifer Moxley. Wandering Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon. I am listening to Column of Fire by Ken Follett.
Books finished:
Book Thoughts: I have lots of books going right now, but am within 100 pages of getting Out of Egypt done, and it continues to be fun to read. I am also reading the rather different book of essays For the Good of All, by Jennifer Moxley. This is one of those books I find myself having to really think, think, think, about as I read. I like, it but it is very different. It is a book that combines poetry, literary history, literary interpretation, and modern life in each short essay. Very different than what I thought it would be.
Non-Book Activities: I am still working on the insurance thing, but did make progress on the moving project. I got the old dresser and chest completely cleaned off and ready for my cousins to pick up. I hope to get my clothes moved into the new dresser this afternoon. I am also making zucchini and yellow summer squash pickles today.
Reading Time Today: 1 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 1 hours
Time listening: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: zucchini and summer squash gallette left-overs for lunch.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 445
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1326 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
Books read from: Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman. Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason. For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds: Essays by Jennifer Moxley. Wandering Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon. I am listening to Column of Fire by Ken Follett.
Books finished:
Book Thoughts: I have lots of books going right now, but am within 100 pages of getting Out of Egypt done, and it continues to be fun to read. I am also reading the rather different book of essays For the Good of All, by Jennifer Moxley. This is one of those books I find myself having to really think, think, think, about as I read. I like, it but it is very different. It is a book that combines poetry, literary history, literary interpretation, and modern life in each short essay. Very different than what I thought it would be.
Non-Book Activities: I am still working on the insurance thing, but did make progress on the moving project. I got the old dresser and chest completely cleaned off and ready for my cousins to pick up. I hope to get my clothes moved into the new dresser this afternoon. I am also making zucchini and yellow summer squash pickles today.
Reading Time Today: 1 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 1 hours
Time listening: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: zucchini and summer squash gallette left-overs for lunch.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 445
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1326 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
10Carmenere
Friday night update:
Books read from: Listened to The Berry Pickers and read from Lessons in Chemistry and Orbital
Books finished:
Time reading: 4.25 hours
Time posting: 9:30 pm
Snacks: for dinner I had pasta with broccoli and 1/2 of a cherry cream cheese fry pie for dessert
Thoughts: I’ll need to weed the flowerbeds before I read tomorrow :(
Non-book activities: Took a walk, watched the Olympics
Total books finished:
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 4.25 hours
Books read from: Listened to The Berry Pickers and read from Lessons in Chemistry and Orbital
Books finished:
Time reading: 4.25 hours
Time posting: 9:30 pm
Snacks: for dinner I had pasta with broccoli and 1/2 of a cherry cream cheese fry pie for dessert
Thoughts: I’ll need to weed the flowerbeds before I read tomorrow :(
Non-book activities: Took a walk, watched the Olympics
Total books finished:
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 4.25 hours
11alcottacre
Friday Night Update:
Books read from: An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (audiobook), The Book-Lovers’ Anthology, R. M. Leonard (editor), When We Ruled by Robin Walker, This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud, The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill, Sacred Trash by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Books finished: 1, Persepolis
Time reading: ~4.8 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~4.8 hours + listening to audiobook
Books read from: An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (audiobook), The Book-Lovers’ Anthology, R. M. Leonard (editor), When We Ruled by Robin Walker, This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud, The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill, Sacred Trash by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Books finished: 1, Persepolis
Time reading: ~4.8 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~4.8 hours + listening to audiobook
12Carmenere
Saturday Update:
Books read from: 4 books: Listened to The Berry Pickers and read from Lessons in Chemistry and Orbital and The Summer we Crossed Europe in the Rain
Books finished: 2 Berry Pickers and Lessons in Chemistry
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 10:45 pm
Snacks: popcorn
Thoughts: I'm sad the Olympics are winding down with closing ceremony on Sunday
Non-book activities: Raked the back lawn of broken branches from storms and then mowed it. Watched the Olympics
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 8.25 hours
Books read from: 4 books: Listened to The Berry Pickers and read from Lessons in Chemistry and Orbital and The Summer we Crossed Europe in the Rain
Books finished: 2 Berry Pickers and Lessons in Chemistry
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 10:45 pm
Snacks: popcorn
Thoughts: I'm sad the Olympics are winding down with closing ceremony on Sunday
Non-book activities: Raked the back lawn of broken branches from storms and then mowed it. Watched the Olympics
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 8.25 hours
13benitastrnad
Saturday report
Books read from: Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman. Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason. For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds: Essays by Jennifer Moxley. Wandering Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon. I am listening to Column of Fire by Ken Follett.
Books finished:
Book Thoughts: I read more in Out of Egypt today and listened to about 1/2 hour of Column of Fire while driving to town for groceries. Other than that not much progress on books today.
Non-Book Activities: I had to make refried beans for tomorrow's block party and then my sister and I went to a local farm's appreciation pork supper. I had fun doing that and got to see lots of people I haven't seen in ages and met a couple of new ones. It was fun. This is considered to be the end of summer and tomorrow will be the last Sunday Block party. School starts next week so summer is over. I listened to more the Olympics today and took in the men's and women's wrestling finals, table tennis, and women's handball finals. I also talked on the phone to friends in Alabama and will have to talk to more of them tomorrow.
Reading Time Today: 1 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: pork supper that was pretty good for being cooked for hundreds.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 445
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1327 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
Books read from: Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman. Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason. For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds: Essays by Jennifer Moxley. Wandering Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon. I am listening to Column of Fire by Ken Follett.
Books finished:
Book Thoughts: I read more in Out of Egypt today and listened to about 1/2 hour of Column of Fire while driving to town for groceries. Other than that not much progress on books today.
Non-Book Activities: I had to make refried beans for tomorrow's block party and then my sister and I went to a local farm's appreciation pork supper. I had fun doing that and got to see lots of people I haven't seen in ages and met a couple of new ones. It was fun. This is considered to be the end of summer and tomorrow will be the last Sunday Block party. School starts next week so summer is over. I listened to more the Olympics today and took in the men's and women's wrestling finals, table tennis, and women's handball finals. I also talked on the phone to friends in Alabama and will have to talk to more of them tomorrow.
Reading Time Today: 1 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: pork supper that was pretty good for being cooked for hundreds.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 445
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1327 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
14nrmay
Saturday night
Books:
Finished The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Halfway through The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Dinner was fresh sockeye salmon, rice and a big garden salad. Evening snack - lemon ginger tea and a cookie.
Other activity:
short shopping trip, brunch out, laundry, filled the bird feeders, napped.
Books:
Finished The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Halfway through The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Dinner was fresh sockeye salmon, rice and a big garden salad. Evening snack - lemon ginger tea and a cookie.
Other activity:
short shopping trip, brunch out, laundry, filled the bird feeders, napped.
15alcottacre
Saturday Night Update:
Books read from: An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (audiobook), The Book-Lovers’ Anthology, R. M. Leonard (editor), When We Ruled by Robin Walker, This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud, The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill, Sacred Trash by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, and War Diary, 1939-1945 by Lord Alanbrooke
Books finished: 1, Sacred Trash
Time reading: ~3.4 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~8.2 hours + listening to audiobook
Books read from: An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (audiobook), The Book-Lovers’ Anthology, R. M. Leonard (editor), When We Ruled by Robin Walker, This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud, The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill, Sacred Trash by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, and War Diary, 1939-1945 by Lord Alanbrooke
Books finished: 1, Sacred Trash
Time reading: ~3.4 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~8.2 hours + listening to audiobook
16Carmenere
Sunday Update:
Books read from: 2 books: Orbital and The Summer we Crossed Europe in the Rain and The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Books finished: The Summer we Crossed Europe in the Rain
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 9:35 pm
Snacks: Reese's peanut butter cup
Thoughts: Time to start skimming through The City and Its Uncertain Walls. It's moving pretty slowly
Non-book activities: Weeded the pachysandra bed of pachysandras Watched the Women's Basketball and Marathon and then the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. Now what am I going to watch at night?!
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 10.25 hours
Books read from: 2 books: Orbital and The Summer we Crossed Europe in the Rain and The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Books finished: The Summer we Crossed Europe in the Rain
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 9:35 pm
Snacks: Reese's peanut butter cup
Thoughts: Time to start skimming through The City and Its Uncertain Walls. It's moving pretty slowly
Non-book activities: Weeded the pachysandra bed of pachysandras Watched the Women's Basketball and Marathon and then the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. Now what am I going to watch at night?!
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 10.25 hours
17PaulCranswick
I made great progress with my reading this weekend, despite the Olympics - but only actually completed one - Chess.
Read from:
The Grand Alliance by Churchill
A Farewell to France by Barber
Jerusalem the Golden by Drabble
Close Quarters by Gilbert
English Journey by Priestley
The Rape of Nanking by Chang
The Last Green Valley by Sullivan
The Light in Hidden Places by Cameron
Laughter in the Dark by Nabokov
War Diaries 1939-1945 by Alanbrooke
I will probably get all of them over the line this week now.
Read from:
The Grand Alliance by Churchill
A Farewell to France by Barber
Jerusalem the Golden by Drabble
Close Quarters by Gilbert
English Journey by Priestley
The Rape of Nanking by Chang
The Last Green Valley by Sullivan
The Light in Hidden Places by Cameron
Laughter in the Dark by Nabokov
War Diaries 1939-1945 by Alanbrooke
I will probably get all of them over the line this week now.
18ChrisG1
Weekend summary:
Books read from: Jericho's Road by Elmer Kelton, Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose, and Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn
Books Finished: Jericho's Road
Pages read: 450-ish
Non-reading activities: Watching the Olympics, church, dinner with at our son's home.
Books read from: Jericho's Road by Elmer Kelton, Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose, and Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn
Books Finished: Jericho's Road
Pages read: 450-ish
Non-reading activities: Watching the Olympics, church, dinner with at our son's home.
19nrmay
Sunday night
Books:
Finished The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Halfway through Devils Unto Dust.
Also looked at the Sunday papers, did the sudoku puzzles.
Dinner was chicken & vegetables, an ice cream soda for dessert.
Other Activity:
More laundry, talked on the phone to my sister and my brother, tidied the kitchen.
Books:
Finished The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Halfway through Devils Unto Dust.
Also looked at the Sunday papers, did the sudoku puzzles.
Dinner was chicken & vegetables, an ice cream soda for dessert.
Other Activity:
More laundry, talked on the phone to my sister and my brother, tidied the kitchen.
20alcottacre
Sunday Night Update:
Books read from: The Book-Lovers’ Anthology, R. M. Leonard (editor), When We Ruled by Robin Walker, This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud, The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill, and War Diary, 1939-1945 by Lord Alanbrooke
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.7 hours
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~10.9 hours + listening to audiobook
Books read from: The Book-Lovers’ Anthology, R. M. Leonard (editor), When We Ruled by Robin Walker, This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud, The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill, and War Diary, 1939-1945 by Lord Alanbrooke
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.7 hours
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~10.9 hours + listening to audiobook
21benitastrnad
Weekend wrap-up
Books read from: Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman. Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason. For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds: Essays by Jennifer Moxley. Wandering Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon. I am listening to Column of Fire by Ken Follett.
Books finished: Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman
Book Thoughts: I had great fun and enjoyment reading Out of Egypt. It was a memoir from Aciman's young adult years and concerned school boy things, but it also told a great deal about Jewish life in Alexandria, Egypt. Alexandria in the Inter-War years and up until the 1960's was a very cosmopolitan place and this memoir reflects that. Aciman's family was Sephardic Jews who moved to Constantinople and remained there until forced to leave their home in Constantinople in 1919. They choose to make Alexandria their new home and were caught up in WWII. The Suez Crisis of 1956 plays a major part in the family story and is the first major event that Aciman remembers and understands as important to the future fortunes of his family. The book ends with the entire family immigrating, once again, this time to France. The families native language was Ladino and this lead me down the rabbit hole of what this language is and what its status is today. Bluntly, it is a dying language with few native speakers left.
Non-Book Activities: I had to take the van into the repair shop today to have the wheel bearing replaced. That was a $250.00 bill but the vehicle does drive much better. I am probably lucky that "the party wagon" made it to Montana and back to Kansas. Tomorrow I will pack it with the stuff I am taking back to Alabama to the Thrift Shop and the good furniture that I am giving to Turning Point. I didn't have much time for reading this weekend and I am disappointed in that, but I have been busy. The weather was perfect this weekend. It is starting to warm up now, but it was so nice and cool with low humidity this weekend.
Reading Time Today: 2 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 4 hours
Time listening: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: I tried a new zucchini and summer squash casserole tonight. It is pretty good. There was a bumper crop of squash this summer in Kansas, but funny tomatoes are in short supply.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 446
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1329 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
Books read from: Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman. Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason. For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds: Essays by Jennifer Moxley. Wandering Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon. I am listening to Column of Fire by Ken Follett.
Books finished: Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman
Book Thoughts: I had great fun and enjoyment reading Out of Egypt. It was a memoir from Aciman's young adult years and concerned school boy things, but it also told a great deal about Jewish life in Alexandria, Egypt. Alexandria in the Inter-War years and up until the 1960's was a very cosmopolitan place and this memoir reflects that. Aciman's family was Sephardic Jews who moved to Constantinople and remained there until forced to leave their home in Constantinople in 1919. They choose to make Alexandria their new home and were caught up in WWII. The Suez Crisis of 1956 plays a major part in the family story and is the first major event that Aciman remembers and understands as important to the future fortunes of his family. The book ends with the entire family immigrating, once again, this time to France. The families native language was Ladino and this lead me down the rabbit hole of what this language is and what its status is today. Bluntly, it is a dying language with few native speakers left.
Non-Book Activities: I had to take the van into the repair shop today to have the wheel bearing replaced. That was a $250.00 bill but the vehicle does drive much better. I am probably lucky that "the party wagon" made it to Montana and back to Kansas. Tomorrow I will pack it with the stuff I am taking back to Alabama to the Thrift Shop and the good furniture that I am giving to Turning Point. I didn't have much time for reading this weekend and I am disappointed in that, but I have been busy. The weather was perfect this weekend. It is starting to warm up now, but it was so nice and cool with low humidity this weekend.
Reading Time Today: 2 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 4 hours
Time listening: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: I tried a new zucchini and summer squash casserole tonight. It is pretty good. There was a bumper crop of squash this summer in Kansas, but funny tomatoes are in short supply.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 446
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1329 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
