Social Distancing Readathon #257 - February 28 - March 2
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2025
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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
Kerry will be out of town this weekend so I am hoping to get a lot of reading done while he is gone!
3PawsforThought
I'm planning on taking part. Will have family visiting on Sunday but I hope to get some reading time in before that. I just finished Curtain: Poirot's Last Case and am hoping to finish Hemsöborna today. I'll try to get somewhere with Hard Times after that.
4nrmay
Good morning all!
I’ll be reading this weekend. I’m still at the beach; Amelia Island Book Festival is tomorrow and we’re heading home on Sunday.
Need to finish The Catch today. (in the Slow Horses series.) l have so many books waiting in the wings… l’ve acquired at least 9 books since I’ve been here. More than half were kids’ books. You may remember l donated half my kids books - scores of them - when l moved. Three of the new ones l mean to reread; a couple more l have in mind for the littlest grandie who is not yet two.
I’ll be reading this weekend. I’m still at the beach; Amelia Island Book Festival is tomorrow and we’re heading home on Sunday.
Need to finish The Catch today. (in the Slow Horses series.) l have so many books waiting in the wings… l’ve acquired at least 9 books since I’ve been here. More than half were kids’ books. You may remember l donated half my kids books - scores of them - when l moved. Three of the new ones l mean to reread; a couple more l have in mind for the littlest grandie who is not yet two.
5PocheFamily
In! May not get in time until Saturday afternoon, but even a part time R-a-Th is fun to anticipate! I've got 3 open books and 5 in the TBR pile, a few with deadlines, so I need to get in the hours this weekend! Especially as sunshine and milder temperatures are starting to draw me outside ...
6ChrisG1
I'm in - and with the wife gone for the weekend, I expect much reading to be done. Currently reading Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams, which will probably keep at least that long to finish.
7benitastrnad
Weekend Startup
Books read from: I am still slowly reading in Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve (I read a couple of pages every-other day) and slowly making progress in Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis using the same method. My computer book is Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I have a good start on the second book in the Balkan Trilogy, Spoilt City. I finished reading System Collapse by Martha Wells. It is book 7 in the Murderbot Diaries. I am listening to 1776 by David McCullough and started Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman.
Books finished: System Collapse and Martha Wells
Book Thoughts: I enjoyed System Collapse but somehow it didn't have the same punch and verve that the previous books in the series had. It was still a fun book to read, and I will read the next one when it comes out. I will try to see the TV series when it comes out because I like the overall plot lines.
Non-Book Activities: I emptied more boxes from my moving pile and took cardboard to the recycling bin. I spent most of the afternoon hauling boxes of books into the house.
Reading Time Today: 2 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: roast chicken drumsticks and roasted carrots and parsnips.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 491
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1525 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: I am still slowly reading in Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve (I read a couple of pages every-other day) and slowly making progress in Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis using the same method. My computer book is Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I have a good start on the second book in the Balkan Trilogy, Spoilt City. I finished reading System Collapse by Martha Wells. It is book 7 in the Murderbot Diaries. I am listening to 1776 by David McCullough and started Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman.
Books finished: System Collapse and Martha Wells
Book Thoughts: I enjoyed System Collapse but somehow it didn't have the same punch and verve that the previous books in the series had. It was still a fun book to read, and I will read the next one when it comes out. I will try to see the TV series when it comes out because I like the overall plot lines.
Non-Book Activities: I emptied more boxes from my moving pile and took cardboard to the recycling bin. I spent most of the afternoon hauling boxes of books into the house.
Reading Time Today: 2 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: roast chicken drumsticks and roasted carrots and parsnips.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 491
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1525 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
8PawsforThought
Fell asleep before posting last night so an update on Friday’s reading.
Books read from: Hemsöborna by August Strindberg
Time reading: About three hours
Non-book activities: Work, pilates, watching a quiz show
I was expecting Strindberg to be slow and stuffy so chose this particular one because it was the shortest one the library had on the shelves. But it’s a pretty quick and easy read, and I’m particularly amused by this easy it is to understand everything even though it was written almost 150 years ago when the grammatical system was a bit different than now (more genders; verbs conjugated by person, which we no longer do).
Books read from: Hemsöborna by August Strindberg
Time reading: About three hours
Non-book activities: Work, pilates, watching a quiz show
I was expecting Strindberg to be slow and stuffy so chose this particular one because it was the shortest one the library had on the shelves. But it’s a pretty quick and easy read, and I’m particularly amused by this easy it is to understand everything even though it was written almost 150 years ago when the grammatical system was a bit different than now (more genders; verbs conjugated by person, which we no longer do).
9alcottacre
Friday Night Update
Books read from: Concealed in Death by J. D. Robb (Audiobook), All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot, and The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
Books finished: 1, All Creatures Great and Small
Time reading: 109 minutes + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 109 minutes + listening to audiobook
Books read from: Concealed in Death by J. D. Robb (Audiobook), All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot, and The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
Books finished: 1, All Creatures Great and Small
Time reading: 109 minutes + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 109 minutes + listening to audiobook
10ChrisG1
Saturday afternoon update:
Good progress made on Stone of Farewell, but won't likely finish it this weekend - perhaps Monday. Went book-buying earlier today. Discovered a little hole-in-the-wall shop that specializes in science fiction and picked up good used copies of On the Beach by Nevil Shute, Contact by Carl Sagan, and Madwand by Roger Zelazny.
Then I went to Powell's City of Books and picked up A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny, The Year's Best Science Fiction (22nd annual) edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Very Best of the Best also edited by Dozois. Lastly, the mail brought me The Collected Stories of Katherine Ann Porter. I'm afraid lately I've been buying faster than I can read!
Good progress made on Stone of Farewell, but won't likely finish it this weekend - perhaps Monday. Went book-buying earlier today. Discovered a little hole-in-the-wall shop that specializes in science fiction and picked up good used copies of On the Beach by Nevil Shute, Contact by Carl Sagan, and Madwand by Roger Zelazny.
Then I went to Powell's City of Books and picked up A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny, The Year's Best Science Fiction (22nd annual) edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Very Best of the Best also edited by Dozois. Lastly, the mail brought me The Collected Stories of Katherine Ann Porter. I'm afraid lately I've been buying faster than I can read!
11alcottacre
>10 ChrisG1: I love On the Beach, so I hope you enjoy that one a lot, Chris - as well as your other purchases too :)
Clones. We all need clones so that we can read faster than we can buy!
Clones. We all need clones so that we can read faster than we can buy!
13nrmay
Saturday evening
Book: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim.
She is one of the authors l heard at the Book Festival today. They were all great & interesting speakers. The others l got to hear were
George Pelecanos
S. A. Cosby
Michael Koryta
Elliot Akerman
Kevin Powers
Abbott Kahler
Shelley Read
David Baldacci
Alafair Burke
And now l want to read something by each of them, plus other authors l met in the exhibits. A great event that l really enjoyed!
Dinner: wings, Caesar salad, beer at a bar near our hotel this evening.
Home again by tomorrow afternoon.
66 F/19 C
near Savannah, Georgia
Book: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim.
She is one of the authors l heard at the Book Festival today. They were all great & interesting speakers. The others l got to hear were
George Pelecanos
S. A. Cosby
Michael Koryta
Elliot Akerman
Kevin Powers
Abbott Kahler
Shelley Read
David Baldacci
Alafair Burke
And now l want to read something by each of them, plus other authors l met in the exhibits. A great event that l really enjoyed!
Dinner: wings, Caesar salad, beer at a bar near our hotel this evening.
Home again by tomorrow afternoon.
66 F/19 C
near Savannah, Georgia
14benitastrnad
Saturday Report
Books read from: I am still slowly reading in Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve (I read a couple of pages every-other day) and slowly making progress in Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis by reading at least two pages a day. My computer book is Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I am about done with the second book in the Balkan Trilogy, Spoilt City. I am listening to 1776 by David McCullough and also started listening to Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman.
Books finished: System Collapse and Martha Wells
Book Thoughts: I read a nice recommendation on one of the other threads in the 75'ers group for Bookish Life of Nina Hill and since I had room to listen to a book, I placed an ILL request for it from my local library. To my surprise it came yesterday. Less than one week to get that request. I haven't listened to much of it yet, but it will be a pleasant book, and should make a great knitting companion. I am really liking Spoilt City and should finish reading it tonight. What changed this series for me, was the knowledge that the trilogy is really biographical fiction.
Non-Book Activities: I went to the Delta Kappa Gamma meeting today and will join that group. I rushed there directly from work, and got there in time to hear about a major change in the local high school. They are requiring seniors to do a special project. The group heard from 3 students and all of them had some good ideas, but the one on Agricultural Accounting was the most impressive.
Reading Time Today: 2 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 4 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: I picked up a taco salad for lunch from a local place, and baked an oatmeal cake. It smelled so good, but then I burnt the frosting while I was trying to broil it. Things go from just underdone to overdone so fast in the kitchen. However, I think it is salvageable. I am going to eat a bit of it tonight so will know for sure then.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 491
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1527 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: I am still slowly reading in Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve (I read a couple of pages every-other day) and slowly making progress in Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis by reading at least two pages a day. My computer book is Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I am about done with the second book in the Balkan Trilogy, Spoilt City. I am listening to 1776 by David McCullough and also started listening to Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman.
Books finished: System Collapse and Martha Wells
Book Thoughts: I read a nice recommendation on one of the other threads in the 75'ers group for Bookish Life of Nina Hill and since I had room to listen to a book, I placed an ILL request for it from my local library. To my surprise it came yesterday. Less than one week to get that request. I haven't listened to much of it yet, but it will be a pleasant book, and should make a great knitting companion. I am really liking Spoilt City and should finish reading it tonight. What changed this series for me, was the knowledge that the trilogy is really biographical fiction.
Non-Book Activities: I went to the Delta Kappa Gamma meeting today and will join that group. I rushed there directly from work, and got there in time to hear about a major change in the local high school. They are requiring seniors to do a special project. The group heard from 3 students and all of them had some good ideas, but the one on Agricultural Accounting was the most impressive.
Reading Time Today: 2 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 4 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: I picked up a taco salad for lunch from a local place, and baked an oatmeal cake. It smelled so good, but then I burnt the frosting while I was trying to broil it. Things go from just underdone to overdone so fast in the kitchen. However, I think it is salvageable. I am going to eat a bit of it tonight so will know for sure then.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 491
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1527 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
15alcottacre
>12 nrmay: I have not read anything by Nevil Shute that I did not enjoy, but On the Beach is my favorite by him, Nancy.
16alcottacre
Saturday Night Update
Books read from: Concealed in Death by J. D. Robb (Audiobook), The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester, Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray, Breaking the Food Seduction by Neal Barnard, M.D., and Embers by Sandor Marai
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.4 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~4.2 hours + listening to audiobook
Books read from: Concealed in Death by J. D. Robb (Audiobook), The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester, Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray, Breaking the Food Seduction by Neal Barnard, M.D., and Embers by Sandor Marai
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.4 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~4.2 hours + listening to audiobook
17PawsforThought
Loving all the Nevil Shute talk. I’ve not read that much by him, but Pied Piper was the first grown up book I ever read (I think I was nine?) and I loved it from page one. I should re-read that one day.
18PocheFamily
Nevil Shute books are certainly memorable!
I've gotten in a bit more time this weekend than I expected to, and managed to finish Incredible Victory by Walter Lord Friday, so I picked up the Nimitz biography and am progressing nicely through this audiobook.
Still working on the first of the Early Reader short story collections I won last week - started a bit rough but the second grouping of stories shows a lot more polish. I hate racing through short stories, so it's a great time to read a short story collection as I manage other little domestic things. I expect to get through a bit more of that than dive into Black Submariners in the United States Navy, 1940-1975 ... pun intended :)
I've gotten in a bit more time this weekend than I expected to, and managed to finish Incredible Victory by Walter Lord Friday, so I picked up the Nimitz biography and am progressing nicely through this audiobook.
Still working on the first of the Early Reader short story collections I won last week - started a bit rough but the second grouping of stories shows a lot more polish. I hate racing through short stories, so it's a great time to read a short story collection as I manage other little domestic things. I expect to get through a bit more of that than dive into Black Submariners in the United States Navy, 1940-1975 ... pun intended :)
19benitastrnad
Sunday Report
Books read from: I am still slowly reading in Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve (I read a couple of pages every-other day) and slowly making progress in Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis by reading at least two pages a day. My computer book is Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I am about done with the second book in the Balkan Trilogy, Spoilt City. I am listening to 1776 by David McCullough and also started listening to Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman.
Books finished: System Collapse and Martha Wells
Book Thoughts: I haven't gotten much reading done today, but hope to get more read later this afternoon.
Non-Book Activities: Church. Then went to lunch with my sister at the nearest Chinese resturant which is 40 miles away.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 5 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: Chinese food
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 491
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1528 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: I am still slowly reading in Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve (I read a couple of pages every-other day) and slowly making progress in Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis by reading at least two pages a day. My computer book is Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I am about done with the second book in the Balkan Trilogy, Spoilt City. I am listening to 1776 by David McCullough and also started listening to Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman.
Books finished: System Collapse and Martha Wells
Book Thoughts: I haven't gotten much reading done today, but hope to get more read later this afternoon.
Non-Book Activities: Church. Then went to lunch with my sister at the nearest Chinese resturant which is 40 miles away.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 5 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: Chinese food
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 491
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1528 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
20ChrisG1
You all have me excited to read On The Beach and even check out other Nevil Shute books~
21nrmay
>20 ChrisG1:
On the Beach is great
Also A Town Called Alice and
Trustee from the Tool Room!
All memorable.
On the Beach is great
Also A Town Called Alice and
Trustee from the Tool Room!
All memorable.
22ChrisG1
Weekend summary:
Books read from: Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams
Books finished: none
Pages read: 450-ish
As expected, the middle volume of Williams' fantasy epic took up my reading weekend - still had 60 pages to go by bedtime, and will certainly finish it today.
Books read from: Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams
Books finished: none
Pages read: 450-ish
As expected, the middle volume of Williams' fantasy epic took up my reading weekend - still had 60 pages to go by bedtime, and will certainly finish it today.
23PocheFamily
Weekend summary:
Books read from: 3 - Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway, Nimitz, and Too Strange To Be the End of the World: A Short Story Collection
Books finished: 2 - Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway and Too Strange To Be the End of the World: A Short Story Collection
Time reading: about half the hours I was awake - sorry, forgot to track, but it was a great reading weekend
Snacks: spousal unit's chocolate chip cookies, and I am not admitting to myself how many so don't expect a tell-all here
Thoughts: I learned the word "acedia" this weekend, and am amazed I've never been accused of being such because I certainly am in my own head.
Non-book activities: domestic organization and management, wicked exciting - but I wouldn't want to boast overmuch about the joys of ironing and kitchen counter scrubbing (multiple times) so I'll keep this statement simple and end it here.
Editing to include a favorite comment I read this weekend, quoting then Midshipman David H. Belew, who said his hometown was so small "the city limit signs are back to back". I find this endlessly entertaining.
Books read from: 3 - Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway, Nimitz, and Too Strange To Be the End of the World: A Short Story Collection
Books finished: 2 - Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway and Too Strange To Be the End of the World: A Short Story Collection
Time reading: about half the hours I was awake - sorry, forgot to track, but it was a great reading weekend
Snacks: spousal unit's chocolate chip cookies, and I am not admitting to myself how many so don't expect a tell-all here
Thoughts: I learned the word "acedia" this weekend, and am amazed I've never been accused of being such because I certainly am in my own head.
Non-book activities: domestic organization and management, wicked exciting - but I wouldn't want to boast overmuch about the joys of ironing and kitchen counter scrubbing (multiple times) so I'll keep this statement simple and end it here.
Editing to include a favorite comment I read this weekend, quoting then Midshipman David H. Belew, who said his hometown was so small "the city limit signs are back to back". I find this endlessly entertaining.
24alcottacre
>17 PawsforThought: I read that one for the first time just a few years ago, Paws. It is high time for a re-read!
>18 PocheFamily: Not only am I a fan of Nevil Shute, but I am a fan of Walter Lord as well. I hope that you enjoyed Incredible Victory, Leslie.
>20 ChrisG1: Great!
>21 nrmay: I still need to read Trustee from the Tool Room, Nancy. Thank you for the reminder!
I only read for about 15 minutes yesterday, so I am not posting any official 'report.'
>18 PocheFamily: Not only am I a fan of Nevil Shute, but I am a fan of Walter Lord as well. I hope that you enjoyed Incredible Victory, Leslie.
>20 ChrisG1: Great!
>21 nrmay: I still need to read Trustee from the Tool Room, Nancy. Thank you for the reminder!
I only read for about 15 minutes yesterday, so I am not posting any official 'report.'
25nrmay
Summing up -
Books:
main book is Miracle Creek
There are a few more started, but paused for a bit.
Sunday family dinner:
pizza, salad, mini eclairs and Italian ices while watching the Oscars.
Other:
returned home yesterday from Florida.
Other book activity:
Unpacked a couple more boxes of books. Found a couple kids’ books for my sister to use in an upcoming library program she’s doing.
Sunny 55F/13C
Books:
main book is Miracle Creek
There are a few more started, but paused for a bit.
Sunday family dinner:
pizza, salad, mini eclairs and Italian ices while watching the Oscars.
Other:
returned home yesterday from Florida.
Other book activity:
Unpacked a couple more boxes of books. Found a couple kids’ books for my sister to use in an upcoming library program she’s doing.
Sunny 55F/13C
