Social Distancing Readathon #243 - November 22 - 24

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 am in, Silver! Thanks for hosting again.

>2 alcottacre: You're welcome!

I'm in - currently reading In the Realm of the Wolf by David Gemmell.

Time to drop everything and read!

Current book is Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell

Friday Night Update:

Books read from: The Great Fortune by Olivia Manning (audiobook), Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (audiobook), The Little Country by Charles deLint, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kantika by Elizabeth Graver, and Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Books finished: 1, The Great Fortune
Time reading: 2.75 hours + listening to audiobooks

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 2.75 hours + listening to audiobooks

I’m in!

I went to bed before the thread was up yesterday so a Saturday update on Friday’s reading.

Books read from: The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola
Books finished: None
Time reading: About an hour.
Non-book activities: Watching TV, pedalling on the exercise bike.

Sat a.m.

Books:
Hope to finish Slow Dance today.
Started The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley. I read and liked her previous book The Guest List

Dinner last night was the most delicious vegetable beef soup. We had bought beef shank and shin bones at the farmers market and then simmered them for hours.

Other activity:
still unpacking.. need to be organized and ready for house guests in December. I get distracted looking out the windows. We have lots of deer wandering through.

Thoughts:
Fall has fell. There’s a nip in the air in the mornings.

Sunny 🌞 49F/9C

I’m in.

Friday update:
Books read from: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Books finished: 1 See above
Time reading: 1 hour
Non-book activities: saw the Sound of Music at local Little Theatre.

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

Saturday Night Update:

Books read from: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (audiobook), Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny (audiobook), The Little Country by Charles deLint, Kantika by Elizabeth Graver, and Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Books finished: 1, Heart of Darkness
Time reading: ~1.9 hours + listening to audiobooks

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~4.65 hours + listening to audiobooks

I was fighting tiredness today so not nearly as much reading in as I wanted. Hopefully tomorrow will be a different story. . .

Saturday:

Books read from: The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola and Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
Books finished: None
Time reading: An hour and a half.
Non-book activities: Watching TV, pedalling on the exercise bike, a long walk.

Not going as great as last week but I am reading.

Saturday update:
Books read from: Howl’s Moving Castle
Books finished: 1 See above
Time reading: 2 hours
Non-book activities: watched Ohio State football game

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hours

Sunday Night Update:

Books read from: The Little Country by Charles deLint, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kantika by Elizabeth Graver, and Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Books finished: 2, The Little Country and Kantika
Time reading: 2.6 hours

Total books finished: 5
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: 7.25 hours + listening to audiobooks

Sunday update:

Books read from: The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola
Books finished: None
Time reading: About an hour and a half.
Non-book activities: Watching TV, pedalling on the exercise bike, a long walk, wasting time on YouTube, baking saffron buns for Advent.

Total books finished: None
Total read from: Two
Total time reading: About four hours.

This hasn't been a great readathon weekend for me, but I have read every day so that's good. I'm exactly halfway through The Fortune of the Rougons now, and like it enough t finish it. If I continue at this pace it'll take up to three weeks.

Weekend summary:

Books read from: The Realm of the Wolf by David Gemmell, Living in Wonder by Rod Dreher
Books finished: The Realm of the Wolf
Pages read: 300-ish

Non-reading activities: Plenty of college & pro football to watch - enjoyed the Michigan Wolverines and Detroit Lions wins. Family gathering for dinner Sunday night at my sister-in-law's home.

I didn't get to LT this weekend because the furniture and boxes of stuff arrived on Saturday. A whole passel of Strnad's and neighbors showed up to help unload the truck and got the job done in about 3 hours total. Now I just have to find the stuff I need - like my coats. I got my new home office sort of set up, but now have to start filling the bookcases with my books. The bedrooms are pretty good, but I need to find the coverlet for one bed and the sheets for the other one. I did keep reading. Report of that follows.

Weekend wrapup

Books read from: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer. Secret Life of Dust by Hannah Holmes. I finished listening to book 5 in the Kingsbridge series by Ken Follett - Evening and the Morning and started listening to Matrix by Lauren Groff.

Books finished: Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett

Book Thoughts: I am still enjoying Under the Banner of Heaven and should finish it this evening. It is quite the story. I am also plugging along with my my science book Secret Life of Dust but am only reading it in short bursts. As soon as I finish the Krakauer book it will become my main squeeze. I started listening to Matrix by Lauren Groff and I love the narrator. She is perfect for the main character.

Non-Book Activities: Moving. The house is a mess and I think it is going to take months for things to be like I want them. The main thing is that ALL the bookcases fit exactly where I thought they would. I have a good start on getting my home office set up and so I have one comfortable room in the house. I need to start putting books back on shelves ASAP as the weather forecast is for light snow later this week. Oh well - come what may ... The moving itself was an exercise in international employment. The crew that loaded my stuff the first day was made up of three Hispanic men. The second day two Hispanic's and one from Burkina Faso. The crew that unloaded the truck (with a passel of help from various relatives and neighbors) were from the Ukraine. Whatever will we do if all of these people are deported on day one?

Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: In between moving I made a batch of tortilla soup for the church's Thanksgiving soup lunch. It was very good. I didn't get the Gingerbread cake baked, but I did get one item done.

Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 472
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1439 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.

Wrapping up

Books:
Finished Slow Dance
Current book is The Paris Apartment

Other book activity:
Bought a copy of A Psalm for the Wild-Built for my brother.
Picked out The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World for my sister.
Signed up for the LT Santa Swap.

Other non-book activity:
Sunday brunch at my sister’s. Watched the Apple TV movie BLITZ. Took food to the local food pantry. Bought a pair of barstools for the kitchen island counter.
Unpacked more boxes.

Looking forward to family Thanksgiving and the long holiday weekend.

Here's the Thanksgiving Readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/366111