Social Distancing Readathon #234 - September 13 - 15
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
Hopefully this week will go better for me than last week's readathon, which turned out to be a disaster.
Happy reading, everyone!
Happy reading, everyone!
3benitastrnad
I will be joining again this weekend and hope to spend a great deal of my time reading and packing for the move.
4ChrisG1
I'm in - currently reading Rebel by Bernard Cornwell. Not sure how much reading will happen this weekend, as we're going to the Oregon Coast with some family.
5benitastrnad
Friday start up
Books read from: English Creek by Ivan Doig. Meet Me At The Bamboo Table: Everyday Meals Everywhere by A. V. Crofts. I finished Treacherous Net by Helene Tursten and started Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel. I am listening to First Frost by Craig Johnson.
Books finished: Treacherous Net by Helene Tursten
Book Thoughts: I buzzed through Treacherous Net in five days earlier this week. I got the book from Inter-Library Loan and returned it quite fast. I have three books from ILL and so I started on the one that was due next Mr. & Mrs. American Pie and like it. It was on a list of best Women's Fiction from five years ago, so I decided to get it and read it as a diversion from the heavier reading I have been doing lately. It was snarky at the beginning, but it has settled in and I am enjoying the cast of characters and the setting. It takes place in 1969 in Palm Springs, CA and now in Scottsdale, AZ. The main character keeps complaining that she has been exiled to a backwater - Scottsdale, while I am laughing because today it is the new Palm Springs.
Non-Book Activities: I spent my reading time this morning winding some yarn. It is a very fine lace weight yarn and the skein was so tangled that it couldn't be wound on a swift. I watched TV and wound yarn. The yarn was mesmerizing. The TV wasn't so much - until I switched the channel to the Create Network. Later today I will be running errands and hope to get a small amount of packing done this afternoon - unless I get mesmerized by the yarn again. Then it will be supper out with friends.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 1 hours
Time listening: hours
Time posting:
Food: coffee for breakfast with a nice thick slice of sourdough bread and butter. Not balanced, but so good.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 456
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1387 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: English Creek by Ivan Doig. Meet Me At The Bamboo Table: Everyday Meals Everywhere by A. V. Crofts. I finished Treacherous Net by Helene Tursten and started Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel. I am listening to First Frost by Craig Johnson.
Books finished: Treacherous Net by Helene Tursten
Book Thoughts: I buzzed through Treacherous Net in five days earlier this week. I got the book from Inter-Library Loan and returned it quite fast. I have three books from ILL and so I started on the one that was due next Mr. & Mrs. American Pie and like it. It was on a list of best Women's Fiction from five years ago, so I decided to get it and read it as a diversion from the heavier reading I have been doing lately. It was snarky at the beginning, but it has settled in and I am enjoying the cast of characters and the setting. It takes place in 1969 in Palm Springs, CA and now in Scottsdale, AZ. The main character keeps complaining that she has been exiled to a backwater - Scottsdale, while I am laughing because today it is the new Palm Springs.
Non-Book Activities: I spent my reading time this morning winding some yarn. It is a very fine lace weight yarn and the skein was so tangled that it couldn't be wound on a swift. I watched TV and wound yarn. The yarn was mesmerizing. The TV wasn't so much - until I switched the channel to the Create Network. Later today I will be running errands and hope to get a small amount of packing done this afternoon - unless I get mesmerized by the yarn again. Then it will be supper out with friends.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 1 hours
Time listening: hours
Time posting:
Food: coffee for breakfast with a nice thick slice of sourdough bread and butter. Not balanced, but so good.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 456
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1387 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
7alcottacre
Friday Night Update:
Books read from: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (audiobook), Trust by Hernan Diaz, Crosstalk by Connie Willis, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, and Pacific Crucible by Ian W. Toll
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2.5 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 2.5 hours + listening to audiobook
I wanted to read more tonight but my eyeballs are beginning to rebel. . .
Books read from: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (audiobook), Trust by Hernan Diaz, Crosstalk by Connie Willis, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, and Pacific Crucible by Ian W. Toll
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2.5 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 2.5 hours + listening to audiobook
I wanted to read more tonight but my eyeballs are beginning to rebel. . .
9alcottacre
>8 Carmenere: Enjoy your time with Will, Lynda! See you next weekend!
10benitastrnad
Saturday report
Books read from: English Creek by Ivan Doig. Meet Me At The Bamboo Table: Everyday Meals Everywhere by A. V. Crofts. Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel. I am going to start reading Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn later today. I am listening to First Frost by Craig Johnson.
Books finished: Treacherous Net by Helene Tursten
Book Thoughts: I had several ILL books come in and so am spending most of my reading time on Mr. & Mrs. American Pie. This novel is classed as women's fiction and romance. This is a genre that I don't read very often but I am finding that I am liking this novel and after two days of reading I am just over half done with it. It reads fast, but it has held my interest and I am finding that I like the heroine and I even like some of the snark that is directed at society back in 1969/70. I will start reading another book of essays later today for the nonfiction challenge. The topic for this month is Essays.
Non-Book Activities: I continued to wind my "angry" skein of yarn this morning while I talked to my sister about life for about 2 hours. I can't believe it but her husband died a year ago and she has already been asked out on two dates! How do women do that - get asked out on dates. She is not ready to date yet so she turned both of them down - but still!? I finished winding the yarn while we talked. That was one nasty tangled mess and I have three more skeins of that yarn to wind by hand. I am starting to do the moving washing this morning. I picked up the rugs in my bedroom this morning and am in the process of washing them. I will not put them back down but plan to pack them. I will be leaving here in about a month so there is no need to put them back on the floor. Time to dig out the larger boxes.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening: hours
Time posting:
Food: coffee and bread and jam for breakfast and a leftover piece of vegetable casserole for lunch.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 456
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1388 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: English Creek by Ivan Doig. Meet Me At The Bamboo Table: Everyday Meals Everywhere by A. V. Crofts. Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel. I am going to start reading Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn later today. I am listening to First Frost by Craig Johnson.
Books finished: Treacherous Net by Helene Tursten
Book Thoughts: I had several ILL books come in and so am spending most of my reading time on Mr. & Mrs. American Pie. This novel is classed as women's fiction and romance. This is a genre that I don't read very often but I am finding that I am liking this novel and after two days of reading I am just over half done with it. It reads fast, but it has held my interest and I am finding that I like the heroine and I even like some of the snark that is directed at society back in 1969/70. I will start reading another book of essays later today for the nonfiction challenge. The topic for this month is Essays.
Non-Book Activities: I continued to wind my "angry" skein of yarn this morning while I talked to my sister about life for about 2 hours. I can't believe it but her husband died a year ago and she has already been asked out on two dates! How do women do that - get asked out on dates. She is not ready to date yet so she turned both of them down - but still!? I finished winding the yarn while we talked. That was one nasty tangled mess and I have three more skeins of that yarn to wind by hand. I am starting to do the moving washing this morning. I picked up the rugs in my bedroom this morning and am in the process of washing them. I will not put them back down but plan to pack them. I will be leaving here in about a month so there is no need to put them back on the floor. Time to dig out the larger boxes.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening: hours
Time posting:
Food: coffee and bread and jam for breakfast and a leftover piece of vegetable casserole for lunch.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 456
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1388 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
11nrmay
Sat night
Books:
Finished Baby by Patricia MacLachlan
Half-way through
The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster
Dinner: Chinese chicken salad.
Snacks: cookies & milk, peanuts.
Book activities:
Ordered a copy of
The Comfort of Crows for my sister, the naturalist.
Filled a box of books to donate. Then my husband went through them and pulled a bunch out to keep . . 🙄
Other activity:
Studied floor plan of new house to see where my furniture will fit.
We gave our bikes away to my niece & her husband. It’s a start. We have 6 weeks to clear out and hope to move on Oct 31.
Books:
Finished Baby by Patricia MacLachlan
Half-way through
The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster
Dinner: Chinese chicken salad.
Snacks: cookies & milk, peanuts.
Book activities:
Ordered a copy of
The Comfort of Crows for my sister, the naturalist.
Filled a box of books to donate. Then my husband went through them and pulled a bunch out to keep . . 🙄
Other activity:
Studied floor plan of new house to see where my furniture will fit.
We gave our bikes away to my niece & her husband. It’s a start. We have 6 weeks to clear out and hope to move on Oct 31.
12alcottacre
Saturday Night Update:
Books read from: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (audiobook), Trust by Hernan Diaz, Crosstalk by Connie Willis, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Pacific Crucible by Ian W. Toll, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Books finished: 2, Trust and Crosstalk
Time reading: 3 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: 5.5 hours + listening to audiobook
Books read from: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (audiobook), Trust by Hernan Diaz, Crosstalk by Connie Willis, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Pacific Crucible by Ian W. Toll, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Books finished: 2, Trust and Crosstalk
Time reading: 3 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: 5.5 hours + listening to audiobook
14benitastrnad
Sunday report
Books read from: English Creek by Ivan Doig. Meet Me At The Bamboo Table: Everyday Meals Everywhere by A. V. Crofts. Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel. Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn. I am listening to First Frost by Craig Johnson.
Books finished: Treacherous Net by Helene Tursten. Mr & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel. First Frost by Craig Johnson.
Book Thoughts: I really enjoyed reading Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel. I don't read Chick Lit or Romance very often but I do like a variety of reading material every-so-often. I had this book on my gargantuan TBR list and while looking for something in the Chick Lit genre to read, I came across this title. Of course, no library here had the book so I requested it through our Inter-Library Loan department. I thought it would take weeks to get here and to my surprise it arrived in less that a week from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point Library. The book is just the right mixture of snark and sweetness to make for a funny and satisfying novel. The blurb on the book says it is salty and sweet and that is an appropriate description. An added bonus is that it has a very eye catching piece of cover art. It is perfect for this novel. I was also surprised to see that it was published in 2018. I remember that it had very good reviews on Publisher's Weekly but I didn't think it was a 6 year old title! I was also surprised to learn that it is a series on Appletv+. I hope that I will be able to stream it sometime as I kept thinking, while reading the book, that it would make a very good TV series. Somebody else had that same thought.
Non-Book Activities: I got my "angry" yarn wound last night. I also packed another box of cookbooks today. I got rug washing done but can't find a box in which to put them because at this point in time I am not putting them back on the floor. Other than that I haven't done much about moving. I will have to get disciplined about packing starting tomorrow.
Reading Time Today: 3 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 5 hours
Time listening: hours
Time posting:
Food: my Sunday morning cappuccino from Starbucks. When I went to drink it the cup was defective and I poured coffee all over my easy dress. Now I have to wash that as well. For lunch I went to the local Indian restaurant and it was very crowded today. It rained this morning and I think that people thought it would be a good day for an Indian lunch. The cauliflower and potato dish was outstanding and all those people ate all of it.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 458
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1393 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: English Creek by Ivan Doig. Meet Me At The Bamboo Table: Everyday Meals Everywhere by A. V. Crofts. Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel. Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn. I am listening to First Frost by Craig Johnson.
Books finished: Treacherous Net by Helene Tursten. Mr & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel. First Frost by Craig Johnson.
Book Thoughts: I really enjoyed reading Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel. I don't read Chick Lit or Romance very often but I do like a variety of reading material every-so-often. I had this book on my gargantuan TBR list and while looking for something in the Chick Lit genre to read, I came across this title. Of course, no library here had the book so I requested it through our Inter-Library Loan department. I thought it would take weeks to get here and to my surprise it arrived in less that a week from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point Library. The book is just the right mixture of snark and sweetness to make for a funny and satisfying novel. The blurb on the book says it is salty and sweet and that is an appropriate description. An added bonus is that it has a very eye catching piece of cover art. It is perfect for this novel. I was also surprised to see that it was published in 2018. I remember that it had very good reviews on Publisher's Weekly but I didn't think it was a 6 year old title! I was also surprised to learn that it is a series on Appletv+. I hope that I will be able to stream it sometime as I kept thinking, while reading the book, that it would make a very good TV series. Somebody else had that same thought.
Non-Book Activities: I got my "angry" yarn wound last night. I also packed another box of cookbooks today. I got rug washing done but can't find a box in which to put them because at this point in time I am not putting them back on the floor. Other than that I haven't done much about moving. I will have to get disciplined about packing starting tomorrow.
Reading Time Today: 3 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 5 hours
Time listening: hours
Time posting:
Food: my Sunday morning cappuccino from Starbucks. When I went to drink it the cup was defective and I poured coffee all over my easy dress. Now I have to wash that as well. For lunch I went to the local Indian restaurant and it was very crowded today. It rained this morning and I think that people thought it would be a good day for an Indian lunch. The cauliflower and potato dish was outstanding and all those people ate all of it.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 458
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1393 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
15alcottacre
>13 nrmay: I very much enjoyed Trust, Nancy. I gave it 4.25 stars.
16alcottacre
Sunday Night Update:
Books read from: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (audiobook), The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein, Watership Down by Richard Adams, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Pacific Crucible by Ian W. Toll, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~3.8 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: ~9.3 hours + listening to audiobook
Heading to bed early tonight as I am still trying to get my sleeping back on track, but I had a very nice day of reading.
Books read from: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (audiobook), The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein, Watership Down by Richard Adams, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Pacific Crucible by Ian W. Toll, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~3.8 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: ~9.3 hours + listening to audiobook
Heading to bed early tonight as I am still trying to get my sleeping back on track, but I had a very nice day of reading.
17ChrisG1
Weekend summary:
Books Read From: Rebel by Bernard Cornwell, Malice by John Gwynne
Books Finished: Rebel
Pages read: 300-ish
Non-book activities: We spent the weekend at Rockaway Beach with two of our three kids & three grandkids. Many games were played, seafood was consumed and I even got in some reading.
Books Read From: Rebel by Bernard Cornwell, Malice by John Gwynne
Books Finished: Rebel
Pages read: 300-ish
Non-book activities: We spent the weekend at Rockaway Beach with two of our three kids & three grandkids. Many games were played, seafood was consumed and I even got in some reading.
18nrmay
>16 alcottacre:
Have had Warmth of Other Suns on my 'to read' list for a long time.
Winding up the weekend . .
Books:
Finished Babymouse, Queen of the World! and
Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure
Read these two before passing them along to the granddaughter.
3/4 through The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster
Started A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Sunday dinner: sushi, stuffed pork chops
Snack: cookies and milk
Book Activity:
Went through 7 boxes of old/rare/tattered books. Taking a few boxes of them to an antiquarian dealer.
Gave a few kids' books to my 10 yr old great-nephew when he came over yesterday.
Set aside some books for my sis to look at before they go. Offered some of my dad's books to my son.
Other activity:
My nephew very kindly spread pine needles in the garden beds and replaced light bulbs in ceiling fixtures for us.
Watched several episodes of the Netflix series The Perfect Couple, with Nicole Kidman. Based on the book by E. Hilderbrand.
Rain at last!
Have had Warmth of Other Suns on my 'to read' list for a long time.
Winding up the weekend . .
Books:
Finished Babymouse, Queen of the World! and
Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure
Read these two before passing them along to the granddaughter.
3/4 through The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster
Started A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Sunday dinner: sushi, stuffed pork chops
Snack: cookies and milk
Book Activity:
Went through 7 boxes of old/rare/tattered books. Taking a few boxes of them to an antiquarian dealer.
Gave a few kids' books to my 10 yr old great-nephew when he came over yesterday.
Set aside some books for my sis to look at before they go. Offered some of my dad's books to my son.
Other activity:
My nephew very kindly spread pine needles in the garden beds and replaced light bulbs in ceiling fixtures for us.
Watched several episodes of the Netflix series The Perfect Couple, with Nicole Kidman. Based on the book by E. Hilderbrand.
Rain at last!
