Social Distancing Readathon #239 - October 25 - 27

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 plan to take part! This is the first weekend in what feels like forever that I don't have any plans - no one is visiting me and I'm not visiting anyone else.

Count me in! No plan for the weekend except read!

>2 PawsforThought: same with me and it feels good!

>4 Carmenere: I've been waiting for this for weeks! I'm so excited about just staying home and doing not much at all (except hopefully read).

My reading plans are to finish It by Stephen King because it needs to go back to the library on Monday (90 pages left) and to read as much as possible of Vet in Harness as it's a TIOLI read.

I anticipate finishing Nuclear War A scenario on audio, Death on the Nile and an ARC of The City and its Uncertain Walls

I’ll be reading and sorting for the big move coming up SOON.

Close to finishing both Joe Country and Sinking the Sultana.

I am definitely in, especially after missing last week due to traveling. I have several TIOLI books I want to get read.

Thanks again for hosting, Silver!

I'm in, with no major activities for the first time in weeks. Currently reading Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay, and The October Country by Ray Bradbury.

This is moving weekend so I won't be participating, but I will try to do a bit of reading every night. The grand day for the moving truck is Monday, but there is lots of packing still to be done.

Friday Update:

Books read from: Villette by Charlotte Bronte (audiobook), Sanctuary by Faye Kellerman, Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg, How Music Works by David Byrne, Holocaust Journey by Martin Gilbert, So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba, and Bound for Canaan by Fergus M. Bordewich
Books finished: 1, So Long a Letter
Time reading: ~4 hours + listening to audiobook

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~4 hours + listening to audiobook

Sat a.m.

Books:
Finished both Joe Country and Sinking the Sultana
Next? TBD

About to get back to sorting and organizing for the move. Lots to do and time is short!

>10 benitastrnad: >12 nrmay: Good luck with your big moves! Looks like dry weather in most of the US so that will be helpful.

Friday Update on Saturday 11:20 am - late because I began making apple butter this morning

Books read from: Nuclear War A Scenario, The City and It's Uncertain Walls, Death on the Nile and How the Word is Passed
Books finished: Nuclear War A Scenario
Time reading: 7 hours give or take

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 7 hours reading and audio

Saturday night

Book:
Read some more about the Sultana disaster from
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild by Lee Sandlin

Other book activity:
Weeded nursery rhymes, ABC books, juvenile non-fiction. That completes the children’s books. Then l started on general non-fiction and have just 3 short bottom shelves to finish. (Sigh) l should get up off the sofa and do it right now… Then l will be done weeding my entire collection. I don’t know if l’ve quite reduced it by half but it was many bags and boxes. When l unpack at the other end, I’ll have to do a new inventory of my books.

Dinner: leftover Chinese takeout.

Other activity:
We took my nephew to the train station. He was in town for his 20th high school reunion.

Saturday Update:

Books read from: Villette by Charlotte Bronte (audiobook), Sanctuary by Faye Kellerman, Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg, How Music Works by David Byrne, Holocaust Journey by Martin Gilbert, Bound for Canaan by Fergus M. Bordewich, and Winterdance by Gary Paulsen
Books finished: 2, Sanctuary and Your Duck Is My Duck
Time reading: ~3.6 hours + listening to audiobook

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~7.6 hours + listening to audiobook

Saturday Update on Sunday 7:00am

Books read from: The City and It's Uncertain Walls, Death on the Nile and How the Word is Passed
Books finished: The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Time reading: 7 hours give or take

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 14 hours reading and audio

Saturday update on Sunday:

Books read from: It by Stephen King and Vet in Harness by James Herriot
Books finished: 0
Time reading: A little under two hours.

Today I’ll be attempting to clean a bit, but will make sure I finish It before going to bed. I have about 50 pages left.

Sunday Update:

Books read from: How Music Works by David Byrne, Holocaust Journey by Martin Gilbert, Bound for Canaan by Fergus M. Bordewich, Winterdance by Gary Paulsen, and Then They Came for Me by Matthew D. Hockenos
Books finished: 1, Winterdance
Time reading: ~3.75 hours

Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: ~11.35 hours + listening to audiobook

Completely unintended, but everything that I read today was nonfiction!

Sunday update on Monday morning:

Books read from: 2 - It and Vet in Harness
Books finished: It
Time reading: Around 3 hours
Non-book activities: Cleaning the bathroom and vacuuming the rest of the floor. Doomscrolling.

Weekend wrap up

Books:
finished 2 and now half way through My Kind of Christmas by R Carr.

Other book activity:
Finished weeding my entire library.
My sister and niece got bags of books and I’ve filled Little Free Libraries near playgrounds with kids’ books. There remain several bags of books to take to used book stores. It will be interesting to discover how many are gone when l do a new inventory after the move. Hundreds for sure.

Other activity:
My sister and BIL were here helping yesterday afternoon. They loaded up my Norfolk Island pine and two other big plants to take to their house till we get there. New home is just 15 mins. from them.

Weekend summary:

Books read from: Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay, The October Country by Ray Bradbury
Books finished: Lord of Emperors
Pages read: 300-ish

Non-reading activity: Very quiet weekend, with the World Series and various football games on (and yes, I squeeze in the reading with that). Sunday afternoon, I got to spend with my 13 year old grandson learning to play "Star Wars: Outer Rim" - a fairly complex board game we both found enjoyable.

>21 ChrisG1: I have not heard of Lord of Emperors. I will have to see if I can find a copy. I generally enjoy Kay's books.

As far as Star Wars Outer Rim goes, there are a ton of how to play videos on the game available on YouTube if you have questions. The game also has a wonderful expansion, Unfinished Business.

Sunday update on Monday 2:30pm

Sorry for the late update, the
day got away from me

Books read from: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Death on the Nile and How the Word is Passed
Books finished: If I had stuck with one book I would have.
Time reading: 7 hours give or take

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 21 hours reading and audio. My most successful readathon.

>23 Carmenere: Ob, wow! 21 hours of reading! That’s very impressive, well done!

>23 Carmenere: I will echo Paws, Linda! That is just awesome.

>24 PawsforThought: >25 alcottacre: Thank you! I truly took advantage of a quite weekend!

>22 alcottacre: FYI - Lord of Emperors is the second book in a duology begun in Sailing to Sarantium, together referred to as the "Sarantium Mocsaic".

>27 ChrisG1: Thanks for the info, Chris! I actually own Sailing to Sarantium but have not read it yet.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/365438