Social Distancing Readathon #261 - March 28 - 30
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
I am in again. I will be starting early on Friday, I think, as my Sunday does not look like I am going to get much reading done.
3PawsforThought
I’m in! It’s Friday morning here so I’ll be reading on my way to and from work today and hopefully this evening. No real plans for the weekend so hopefully that means I can get some good reading time in.
I want to finish Notes from Underground today and then read Eugene Onegin and White Nights during Saturday and Sunday. If I have time I’d love to get started on Cover Her Face as April’s theme for the British Authors Challenge is P. D. James.
I want to finish Notes from Underground today and then read Eugene Onegin and White Nights during Saturday and Sunday. If I have time I’d love to get started on Cover Her Face as April’s theme for the British Authors Challenge is P. D. James.
4ChrisG1
I'm in. We have family visiting, so I expect a lower than average reading weekend, though. Currently reading To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams.
5PocheFamily
In ... and trying to wrap up a few books. Worried enough that my TBR pile will soon reach avalanche-danger-warning stage if I don't finish a few this weekend. So I'll be posting a bit about several short story collections this weekend (if all goes as planned).
6PawsforThought
>5 PocheFamily: Looking forward to reading about what you’ve read/are reading! I’ve just decided to add more short stories to my TBR.
7Deedledee
I'm in. I have company coming tomorrow so I should be cleaning... which means I'm reading.
Today I read from Daisy Jones and the Six, Watch Out for Her, Come Sundown, and Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel
Today I read from Daisy Jones and the Six, Watch Out for Her, Come Sundown, and Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel
8alcottacre
>7 Deedledee: You have your priorities right, Dee! Reading first, cleaning later :)
9benitastrnad
Friday Startup
Books read from: I continue reading Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis and managed to do my 2 pages today. My computer book remains Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I started reading Two For the Lions by Lindsey Davis last weekend and finished it last night. I started Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig. I started listening to Digging to America by Anne Tyler and am still listening to 1776 by David McCullough.
Books finished: Two For the Lions by Lindsey Davis
Book Thoughts: It is unlikely that I will finish any more books this weekend since I just started a bunch of them, but I hope to get lots of reading done - after I finish doing my taxes. I finished reading book 10 in the Marcus Didius Falco series. This one was Two For the Lions and, as always, it was a great grand adventure through the ancient Roman world.
Non-Book Activities: I have to finish up my taxes. I looked for the box that had my old tax returns in it today. I spent 2 and 1/2 hours hunting through boxes and didn't find them. I am sure I saw them in a box at some point in the last 3 months, but I can't seem to put my hands on them right now when I really need them. I will persist in looking tomorrow because I have to find them, or try to submit the tax return the way it is now. I will see when I get into the final stages of it tomorrow.
Reading Time Today: 1 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 1 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: some left over Indian food. I had a wonderful papaya salad for breakfast this morning. It was so good I couldn't stop eating it. I ate it all. I had another papaya in the frig and so this afternoon I chopped into it to make more of that delightful salad. Horrors! This papaya wasn't ripe. It is hard and chewy. I should have left it out to ripen, but it fooled me. It looked ripe and it wasn't. Nasty, deceiving fruit. It is so hard that I am going to have to throw it out. It doesn't taste anything like papaya.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 497
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1541 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: I continue reading Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis and managed to do my 2 pages today. My computer book remains Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I started reading Two For the Lions by Lindsey Davis last weekend and finished it last night. I started Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig. I started listening to Digging to America by Anne Tyler and am still listening to 1776 by David McCullough.
Books finished: Two For the Lions by Lindsey Davis
Book Thoughts: It is unlikely that I will finish any more books this weekend since I just started a bunch of them, but I hope to get lots of reading done - after I finish doing my taxes. I finished reading book 10 in the Marcus Didius Falco series. This one was Two For the Lions and, as always, it was a great grand adventure through the ancient Roman world.
Non-Book Activities: I have to finish up my taxes. I looked for the box that had my old tax returns in it today. I spent 2 and 1/2 hours hunting through boxes and didn't find them. I am sure I saw them in a box at some point in the last 3 months, but I can't seem to put my hands on them right now when I really need them. I will persist in looking tomorrow because I have to find them, or try to submit the tax return the way it is now. I will see when I get into the final stages of it tomorrow.
Reading Time Today: 1 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 1 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: some left over Indian food. I had a wonderful papaya salad for breakfast this morning. It was so good I couldn't stop eating it. I ate it all. I had another papaya in the frig and so this afternoon I chopped into it to make more of that delightful salad. Horrors! This papaya wasn't ripe. It is hard and chewy. I should have left it out to ripen, but it fooled me. It looked ripe and it wasn't. Nasty, deceiving fruit. It is so hard that I am going to have to throw it out. It doesn't taste anything like papaya.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 497
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1541 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
10alcottacre
Friday Night Update:
Books read from: Friends and Heroes by Olivia Manning (audiobook), Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation by Noel Riley Fitch, The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn, In the Enemy’s House by Howard Blum, and A Fire in the Mind by Stephen and Robin Larsen
Books finished: 2, Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation and In the Enemy’s House
Time reading: ~3.8 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ~3.8 hours + listening to audiobook
Books read from: Friends and Heroes by Olivia Manning (audiobook), Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation by Noel Riley Fitch, The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn, In the Enemy’s House by Howard Blum, and A Fire in the Mind by Stephen and Robin Larsen
Books finished: 2, Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation and In the Enemy’s House
Time reading: ~3.8 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ~3.8 hours + listening to audiobook
11PawsforThought
Friday update on Saturday morning.
Books read from: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Books finished: 1 - Notes from Underground
Time reading: About three and a half hours
Snacks: Dinner was lentil lasagna, otherwise I had a bread bun and chocolate bar on the train (it was over a hour late and I hadn’t had an afternoon snack) and a cinnamon bun in front of the TV.
Non-book activities: Work, impromptu walk around town while waiting for a delayed train, Duolingo, quiz show on TV, pilates and stretching.
Books read from: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Books finished: 1 - Notes from Underground
Time reading: About three and a half hours
Snacks: Dinner was lentil lasagna, otherwise I had a bread bun and chocolate bar on the train (it was over a hour late and I hadn’t had an afternoon snack) and a cinnamon bun in front of the TV.
Non-book activities: Work, impromptu walk around town while waiting for a delayed train, Duolingo, quiz show on TV, pilates and stretching.
12PocheFamily
Just took a break from yardwork on this summer day - or so it seems here in the mid-Atlantic US, despite the calendar - to finish The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction. Have also been reading Skippy Dies, Stories of Your Life and Others, and Incredible Stories at the Bus Stop: A Flash Fiction Collection on Human Experience this weekend.
Books read from: 4
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3.5h
Books read from: 4
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3.5h
13alcottacre
>12 PocheFamily: I will be curious to see what you think of Skippy Dies when you are done with it, Leslie.
14nrmay
I’m on my way to a concert in Charlotte NC. Home again tomorrow but l brought a book along…
Books:
Last night l finished my 10th book in March from my own shelves - SILENCE by Thomas Perry.
Started THE KEYS TO THE STREET by Ruth Rendell.
Books:
Last night l finished my 10th book in March from my own shelves - SILENCE by Thomas Perry.
Started THE KEYS TO THE STREET by Ruth Rendell.
15benitastrnad
>13 alcottacre:
I will be curious as well. A small group of us read Skippy Dies a year ago and that book generated lots of comment here in LT. Please let us know what you think - even while you are reading it.
I will be curious as well. A small group of us read Skippy Dies a year ago and that book generated lots of comment here in LT. Please let us know what you think - even while you are reading it.
16benitastrnad
Saturday report
Books read from: I continue reading Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis and managed to do my 2 pages today so I am almost at the halfway mark on this 600 page biography. My computer book remains Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I started Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig. I started listening to Digging to America by Anne Tyler and am enjoying that book as well. I am also listening to 1776 by David McCullough.
Books finished: Two For the Lions by Lindsey Davis
Book Thoughts: I have finished the first chapter in the Birth of the Pill and the style of writing makes it very comfortable. I think this one is going to be a good narrative nonfiction book. I am reading it now because the April topic for the Nonfiction challenge readers is "Revolutions." The Sexual Revolution is quite the revolution and one that should be very interesting to read about. I read for an hour before work, but then didn't do much reading the rest of the day.
Non-Book Activities: I started the day at work, and then spent the rest of the morning and part of the afternoon with an old college friend. She married a local guy after college and so returns to this part of the world fairly often. We had a good visit and had a nice lunch at the local Mexican place. When I got home I took a 2 hour nap. I don't know if it was the combination of the food or the fact that I was really tired but the nap was nice. When I returned I got out a box of books and put them on shelves. Other than that I didn't get anything done on the taxes or in moving more of my stuff into the house. I didn't even make the bed today.
Reading Time Today: 1 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: lunch with a friend at a fairly good eating place. What more could a person ask?
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 497
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1542 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: I continue reading Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis and managed to do my 2 pages today so I am almost at the halfway mark on this 600 page biography. My computer book remains Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I started Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig. I started listening to Digging to America by Anne Tyler and am enjoying that book as well. I am also listening to 1776 by David McCullough.
Books finished: Two For the Lions by Lindsey Davis
Book Thoughts: I have finished the first chapter in the Birth of the Pill and the style of writing makes it very comfortable. I think this one is going to be a good narrative nonfiction book. I am reading it now because the April topic for the Nonfiction challenge readers is "Revolutions." The Sexual Revolution is quite the revolution and one that should be very interesting to read about. I read for an hour before work, but then didn't do much reading the rest of the day.
Non-Book Activities: I started the day at work, and then spent the rest of the morning and part of the afternoon with an old college friend. She married a local guy after college and so returns to this part of the world fairly often. We had a good visit and had a nice lunch at the local Mexican place. When I got home I took a 2 hour nap. I don't know if it was the combination of the food or the fact that I was really tired but the nap was nice. When I returned I got out a box of books and put them on shelves. Other than that I didn't get anything done on the taxes or in moving more of my stuff into the house. I didn't even make the bed today.
Reading Time Today: 1 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: lunch with a friend at a fairly good eating place. What more could a person ask?
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 497
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1542 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
17PawsforThought
Saturday update on Sunday morning.
Books read from: Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Time reading: Something like four hours
Snacks: Too many. Biscotti, chocolate and more.
Thoughts: Words cannot describe how good it feels to sit in the sun and enjoy the warmth after a long winter. We had the first real day of spring on Saturday, with double digits degrees above zero (C) and it was glorious.
Non-book activities: A long walk, dance aerobics, stretching, Duolingo, doomscrolling.
Books read from: Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Time reading: Something like four hours
Snacks: Too many. Biscotti, chocolate and more.
Thoughts: Words cannot describe how good it feels to sit in the sun and enjoy the warmth after a long winter. We had the first real day of spring on Saturday, with double digits degrees above zero (C) and it was glorious.
Non-book activities: A long walk, dance aerobics, stretching, Duolingo, doomscrolling.
18fuzzi
I've been in a reading slump. Tried An Amish Husband for Tillie, but it's not good enough to keep me going. Why do some authors feel the need to repeat, repeat everything? So I picked up a Johnny Cash autobiography, Man in Black and so far it's keeping me interested.
19alcottacre
Saturday Night Update:
Books read from: Friends and Heroes by Olivia Manning (audiobook), The First Kingdom by Max Adams (audiobook), The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn, A Fire in the Mind by Stephen and Robin Larsen, and Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Books finished: 2, Friends and Heroes and The Lost
Time reading: ~1.7 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~5.5 hours + listening to audiobook
Books read from: Friends and Heroes by Olivia Manning (audiobook), The First Kingdom by Max Adams (audiobook), The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn, A Fire in the Mind by Stephen and Robin Larsen, and Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Books finished: 2, Friends and Heroes and The Lost
Time reading: ~1.7 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~5.5 hours + listening to audiobook
20alcottacre
>18 fuzzi: Sorry to hear about the slump, fuzzi. I hate those things! I hope Man in Black continues to help you get out of it.
21alcottacre
>15 benitastrnad: Yeah, that is why I am curious to see Leslie's thought on it as the book provided to be fairly divisive, I think.
22PocheFamily
Finished Stories of Your Life and Others (most excellent, I've become a Ted Chiang fan) -- and then made the mistake of indulging a need for another audiobook while I wander through this Sunday and started Whispers in the Tall Grass... am bingeing... whoops! There goes my plans to finish other books today (possibly - the day is still young-ish) I'm a total sucker for irreverent attitudes. But I'm a bit disturbed that I'm *not* disturbed by the body count in this of MACV-SOG memoir.
23nrmay
Sunday afternoon
Back home from Charlotte. Have not read much this weekend but the concert last night was fabulous. Mark & Maggie O’Connor, & the Vega Quartet played for the grand opening weekend of the newly restored Carolina Theatre. Originally opened in 1927, it had been abandoned & derelict for 47 years!
Now I’m in my favorite spot with a view of my flowering trees, ready to read for the rest of the day. Hubby can deal with dinner. He’s on the blacklist for closing the cat in a closet for 24 hrs while we were gone… 😠. After l made sure to leave him extra food & water & scooped his box, and fretted over him before we left. 😑 lt was accidental (but stupid).
Deeply offended cat now purring on my lap.
Books:
THE KEYS TO THE STREET
HARBOR ME by J Woodson.
Other bk activity:
While in Charlotte, where l lived till 4 months ago, l retrieved my official plaque from my Little Free Library in the old neighborhood to affix to a new one located in the mail kiosk near my new house in Fearrington Village NC.
Lunch was ice cream - deer tracks w/ hot fudge.
Back home from Charlotte. Have not read much this weekend but the concert last night was fabulous. Mark & Maggie O’Connor, & the Vega Quartet played for the grand opening weekend of the newly restored Carolina Theatre. Originally opened in 1927, it had been abandoned & derelict for 47 years!
Now I’m in my favorite spot with a view of my flowering trees, ready to read for the rest of the day. Hubby can deal with dinner. He’s on the blacklist for closing the cat in a closet for 24 hrs while we were gone… 😠. After l made sure to leave him extra food & water & scooped his box, and fretted over him before we left. 😑 lt was accidental (but stupid).
Deeply offended cat now purring on my lap.
Books:
THE KEYS TO THE STREET
HARBOR ME by J Woodson.
Other bk activity:
While in Charlotte, where l lived till 4 months ago, l retrieved my official plaque from my Little Free Library in the old neighborhood to affix to a new one located in the mail kiosk near my new house in Fearrington Village NC.
Lunch was ice cream - deer tracks w/ hot fudge.
24fuzzi
>20 alcottacre: I picked up a book for my granddaughters, LOVELOVELOVE IT!
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
Delightful! Simple story told simply well, wonderful colorful illustrations, too.
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
Delightful! Simple story told simply well, wonderful colorful illustrations, too.
25alcottacre
>25 alcottacre: Wonderful!
26alcottacre
Sunday Night Update:
Books read from: A Fire in the Mind by Stephen and Robin Larsen, Virgil Wander by Leif Enger, What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew About Judaism by Robert Schoen, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, and The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 by E. J. Hobsbawn
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~3.2 hours
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 10
Total time reading: ~8.7 hours + listening to audiobooks
More reading today than I expected, but not nearly as much as I expected on Saturday so maybe it evens out?
Books read from: A Fire in the Mind by Stephen and Robin Larsen, Virgil Wander by Leif Enger, What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew About Judaism by Robert Schoen, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, and The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 by E. J. Hobsbawn
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~3.2 hours
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 10
Total time reading: ~8.7 hours + listening to audiobooks
More reading today than I expected, but not nearly as much as I expected on Saturday so maybe it evens out?
27PocheFamily
Leo Lionni is wonderful indeed!
Monday's weekend wrap-up:
Books read from: okay, hold onto your keyboards, it's a longer list than I intended:
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Whispers in the Tall Grass
- The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction - ha! Guess why I was listening to this!
- Nightlines
- Incredible Stories at the Bus Stop: A Flash Fiction Collection on Human Experience
- Unnatural Death: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta)
Also tried to get back into Neuromancer which I'd dropped at some point last year, but totally lost my place and will have to start over: backburnered for now.
Books finished: 3: Stories of Your Life and Others, Whispers in the Tall Grass, and The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction
Time reading: I don't remember NOT reading or listening to a book this weekend, so it must not have happened.
Snacks: spousal unit's chocolate chip cookies. He's decided to kill me by butter and chocolate, and I'm okay with this.
Thoughts: If the wish fairy ever grants me wishes I'm going to have a hard time choosing, so it's best they keep their distance. Oh shoot. Was that one of my wishes???
Non-book activities: Yardwork ... then recovery from yardwork.
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 6 or 7
Favorite quote (paraphrased, I was listening and couldn't jot it down fast enough): He asked a new mate what was he doing in Vietnam? The answer: "Trying to develop a sense of humor."
Monday's weekend wrap-up:
Books read from: okay, hold onto your keyboards, it's a longer list than I intended:
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Whispers in the Tall Grass
- The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction - ha! Guess why I was listening to this!
- Nightlines
- Incredible Stories at the Bus Stop: A Flash Fiction Collection on Human Experience
- Unnatural Death: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta)
Also tried to get back into Neuromancer which I'd dropped at some point last year, but totally lost my place and will have to start over: backburnered for now.
Books finished: 3: Stories of Your Life and Others, Whispers in the Tall Grass, and The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction
Time reading: I don't remember NOT reading or listening to a book this weekend, so it must not have happened.
Snacks: spousal unit's chocolate chip cookies. He's decided to kill me by butter and chocolate, and I'm okay with this.
Thoughts: If the wish fairy ever grants me wishes I'm going to have a hard time choosing, so it's best they keep their distance. Oh shoot. Was that one of my wishes???
Non-book activities: Yardwork ... then recovery from yardwork.
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 6 or 7
Favorite quote (paraphrased, I was listening and couldn't jot it down fast enough): He asked a new mate what was he doing in Vietnam? The answer: "Trying to develop a sense of humor."
28PawsforThought
Ooops, forgot to update on Sunday's reading.
Books read from: Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Books finished: 1 - Eugene Onegin
Time reading: Roundabout four hours
Snacks: Again too many biscotti and chocolates.
Thoughts: Stayed up way to late because I wanted to finish the book before the weekend was over. I need to get better at cutting down social media on weekends (I've gotten good at not spending time on SM on weekdays).
Non-book activities: HIIIT training, stretching, a long-ish walk, Duolingo, doomscrolling, prepping for work.
Books read from: Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Books finished: 1 - Eugene Onegin
Time reading: Roundabout four hours
Snacks: Again too many biscotti and chocolates.
Thoughts: Stayed up way to late because I wanted to finish the book before the weekend was over. I need to get better at cutting down social media on weekends (I've gotten good at not spending time on SM on weekdays).
Non-book activities: HIIIT training, stretching, a long-ish walk, Duolingo, doomscrolling, prepping for work.
29ChrisG1
Weekend summary:
Books read from: To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams
Books finished: none
Pages read 350-ish
Non-reading activities: We had a birthday party for my youngest grandchild - his first. He's been our miracle baby - his survival to birth was in doubt, his ability to survive his first week, as well. He faces many challenges, but he's going strong!
Books read from: To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams
Books finished: none
Pages read 350-ish
Non-reading activities: We had a birthday party for my youngest grandchild - his first. He's been our miracle baby - his survival to birth was in doubt, his ability to survive his first week, as well. He faces many challenges, but he's going strong!
30alcottacre
>29 ChrisG1: Yay for the miracle baby's first birthday! I have a miracle baby of my own, so I can imagine your emotions, Chris.
31benitastrnad
Weekend Wrapup
Books read from: I continue reading Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis at my 2 pages per day I have almost managed to get to the halfway mark on this 600 page biography. My computer book remains Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I have a good start on Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig. I started listening to Digging to America by Anne Tyler and am enjoying that book as well. I am also listening to 1776 by David McCullough.
Books finished: Two For the Lions by Lindsey Davis
Book Thoughts: I didn't get much done in reading this weekend. It wasn't the best of weekends either, but the reading part was a disappointment. I have read the first 60 pages of Birth of the Pill and think this is going to be a good book.
Non-Book Activities: The weekend was an overall disappointment in productivity. I didn't get my taxes done, didn't get my book found, didn't get reading, or knitting, or baking done either. I guess some weekends are like that.
Reading Time Today: 1 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 3 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: left over croissant for breakfast.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 497
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1543 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: I continue reading Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis at my 2 pages per day I have almost managed to get to the halfway mark on this 600 page biography. My computer book remains Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I have a good start on Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig. I started listening to Digging to America by Anne Tyler and am enjoying that book as well. I am also listening to 1776 by David McCullough.
Books finished: Two For the Lions by Lindsey Davis
Book Thoughts: I didn't get much done in reading this weekend. It wasn't the best of weekends either, but the reading part was a disappointment. I have read the first 60 pages of Birth of the Pill and think this is going to be a good book.
Non-Book Activities: The weekend was an overall disappointment in productivity. I didn't get my taxes done, didn't get my book found, didn't get reading, or knitting, or baking done either. I guess some weekends are like that.
Reading Time Today: 1 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 3 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: left over croissant for breakfast.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 497
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1543 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
32nrmay
>29 ChrisG1:
Best wishes to your family on the occasion of the baby’s BD! May he continue to thrive and enjoy a happy, healthy childhood.
Weekend wrap
Books:
Finished Harbor Me by multi-award winning author Jaqueline Woodson. I’ve liked everything I’ve read by her.
That makes 12 TBRs finished this month.
Also trying to get back to reading short stories. I read “Beam Us Home” by James Tiptree, Jr. in THE SCIENCE FICTION CENTURY ed. by David Harrell.
Dinner: great Chinese leftovers from dinner out last night. Ice cream soda later. Oh dear, l just realized l had ice cream 2 days in a row... no dessert for the rest of the week.
Other book activity: chose, packed and sent a box of bks to a soldier.
Ordered some books from Thriftbooks for my brother’s birthday.
Other: welcomed my sister’s cats who are staying with me for a week while she’s in CA visiting family.
Wrote and sent a couple postcrossing cards.
Have a good week, everyone!
Best wishes to your family on the occasion of the baby’s BD! May he continue to thrive and enjoy a happy, healthy childhood.
Weekend wrap
Books:
Finished Harbor Me by multi-award winning author Jaqueline Woodson. I’ve liked everything I’ve read by her.
That makes 12 TBRs finished this month.
Also trying to get back to reading short stories. I read “Beam Us Home” by James Tiptree, Jr. in THE SCIENCE FICTION CENTURY ed. by David Harrell.
Dinner: great Chinese leftovers from dinner out last night. Ice cream soda later. Oh dear, l just realized l had ice cream 2 days in a row... no dessert for the rest of the week.
Other book activity: chose, packed and sent a box of bks to a soldier.
Ordered some books from Thriftbooks for my brother’s birthday.
Other: welcomed my sister’s cats who are staying with me for a week while she’s in CA visiting family.
Wrote and sent a couple postcrossing cards.
Have a good week, everyone!
33fuzzi
>29 ChrisG1: happy birthday to the miracle baby!
Started Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers by Gary Paulsen yesterday, finished this evening. Good read.
Started Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers by Gary Paulsen yesterday, finished this evening. Good read.
