Social Distancing Readathon #265 - April 25 - 27
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 as much as I can be! I really need to finish some TIOLI books!
3PawsforThought
I am going to try and take part as much as possible. I have a whole heap of Euripides plays to get through.
4nrmay
Just arrived at our son’s house in California. I’ll be reading here for a couple weeks. We are minding the girls this weekend while the parents are away. It will be a couple days of softball games!
Started reading WOOL by H Howey on the plane today. It’s 1st one in the SILO SERIES
Started reading WOOL by H Howey on the plane today. It’s 1st one in the SILO SERIES
5The_Hibernator
Gonna try again!
6ChrisG1
I'm in - just finished Ubik by Philip K. Dick this morning & starting on The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. I also have 2 short stories left in A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959, edited by Robert Silverberg.
7elkiedee
Friday 25 April, 9 pm BST (British Summer Time)
Since 5 pm
Books read from: 4
Clare Mulley, Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka - started 25.04.25
Yuan Yang, Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China
Rebecca Mascull, The Wild Air
Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square
Pages read: 40
Books finished: 0
Books started: 1
Food: Tea (evening meal): chicken pieces, oven chips, peas and sweetcorn, mug of tea
Thoughts: Feeling a bit gloomy about politics
Book related activities: Entering books etc on LT and other reading websites
Other activities: listening to BBC Radio 4, various programmes (spoken word)
Total books finished: 0 so far, but I finished reading several books in the last two days, including one late last night
Total books started: 1, will start reading some others this weekend as I've recently finished several
Total read from: 4
This weekend, I'm hoping to do a library trip tomorrow to pick up a reservation, but hoping to set out in time to browse the books a few charity shops as well. And I really need to write some reviews.
Since 5 pm
Books read from: 4
Clare Mulley, Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka - started 25.04.25
Yuan Yang, Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China
Rebecca Mascull, The Wild Air
Lai Wen, Tiananmen Square
Pages read: 40
Books finished: 0
Books started: 1
Food: Tea (evening meal): chicken pieces, oven chips, peas and sweetcorn, mug of tea
Thoughts: Feeling a bit gloomy about politics
Book related activities: Entering books etc on LT and other reading websites
Other activities: listening to BBC Radio 4, various programmes (spoken word)
Total books finished: 0 so far, but I finished reading several books in the last two days, including one late last night
Total books started: 1, will start reading some others this weekend as I've recently finished several
Total read from: 4
This weekend, I'm hoping to do a library trip tomorrow to pick up a reservation, but hoping to set out in time to browse the books a few charity shops as well. And I really need to write some reviews.
8alcottacre
Friday Night Update
Books read from: Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr. (audiobook), Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater, The Dark Road by Ma Jian, and Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
Books finished: 1, Half a Soul
Time reading: ~1.6 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~1.6 hours + listening to audiobook
Books read from: Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr. (audiobook), Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater, The Dark Road by Ma Jian, and Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
Books finished: 1, Half a Soul
Time reading: ~1.6 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~1.6 hours + listening to audiobook
9PawsforThought
Update on Friday’s reading.
Didn’t have a good reading day as I was physically and mentally exhausted so mostly watched TV and scrolled SM.
Books read from: A Mind to Murder and The Women of Trachis
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2,5 hours
Non-book activities: Work, TV quiz show, looking after dad, doomscrolling, tiny bit of Pilates, Duolingo
Didn’t have a good reading day as I was physically and mentally exhausted so mostly watched TV and scrolled SM.
Books read from: A Mind to Murder and The Women of Trachis
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2,5 hours
Non-book activities: Work, TV quiz show, looking after dad, doomscrolling, tiny bit of Pilates, Duolingo
10PocheFamily
I'm in, too, just forgot to check here yesterday. I need to finish North Woods by Tuesday, The Frozen River by Wednesday, and am nearly finished with an Early Readers to-be-reviewed book and The Road Not Taken. It'd be awesome to wrap up all these this weekend ... fingers crossed. Will continue with Hellcats of the Sea, which I am enjoying a little bit of every day. And ... still want to crack open This is How You Lose the Time War, but forcing myself to hold off until I get those others off the shelf!
11benitastrnad
>10 PocheFamily:
Wise move regarding This Is How You Lose the Time War. It takes a bit of concentration - IMO.
Wise move regarding This Is How You Lose the Time War. It takes a bit of concentration - IMO.
12benitastrnad
Saturday Review
Books read from: I continue reading Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis. My computer book remains Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I reading River At the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester. I started listening to My Korean Deli: Risking it All For A Convenience Store by Ben Ryder Howe.
Books finished:
Book Thoughts: I just have not had as much time to get things done as I thought I would. My part-time job has really cut into the reading time. I did get a couple of hours of reading in this morning, before my favorite PBS shows kicked in, but not as much as I would have liked.
However, I have really enjoyed the last couple of books I have finished, so while my numbers are down for reading, all of the books I have been reading have kept my interest (except 1776) and that makes me happy. I didn't feel well for about a week and wanted to do nothing but sleep so that really affected my reading as well. Right now, I can say that all of the books I am reading and listening to are good books, and are holding my interest. I listened to a good bit of My Korean Deli yesterday after driving back from a knitting class and found it amusing. That is a good start. The book was published in 2011 and this recorded book has been on my shelves for a long time. Somehow in the moving, it turned up on the top of a box, so I decided it was time to get it off my shelves. It is a memoir about a literary magazine editor who buys into a New York City deli with his wife and mother-in-law. He ends up working full time at his editors job and also full time doing the evening and night shift at the deli as well. He is a yuppie type and the customers are not, so this is also an ethnographic kind of memoir about the gentrification of one of the NYC neighborhoods. It is a recorded book and the reader is doing a great job. It should keep my occupied for a couple of trips to knitting class.
Non-Book Activities: work. Either at work, or at home with the moving boxes. Today I am washing up some blankets and getting them put into the proper closets. Of course, that means that I have to evaluate what is already in the closets, and decide which ones to keep and which to take to a thrift store.
On my knitting class trip I managed to locate a Mexican bakery and so came home with a sack full of Mexican rolls of various kinds. They are good, so I shared them with a cousin and his family last night. They are going to be in Lincoln this weekend for a baseball tournament, so I hope they make a visit to the bakery and bring home their own rolls and pastries.
Reading Time Today: 2 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: leftovers for breakfast and lunch. I have enough food in the refrig to last me until next week so won't be cooking this weekend.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 502
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1552 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. My computer book remains Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I reading River At the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester. I started listening to My Korean Deli: Risking it All For A Convenience Store by Ben Ryder Howe.
Books finished:
Book Thoughts: I just have not had as much time to get things done as I thought I would. My part-time job has really cut into the reading time. I did get a couple of hours of reading in this morning, before my favorite PBS shows kicked in, but not as much as I would have liked.
However, I have really enjoyed the last couple of books I have finished, so while my numbers are down for reading, all of the books I have been reading have kept my interest (except 1776) and that makes me happy. I didn't feel well for about a week and wanted to do nothing but sleep so that really affected my reading as well. Right now, I can say that all of the books I am reading and listening to are good books, and are holding my interest. I listened to a good bit of My Korean Deli yesterday after driving back from a knitting class and found it amusing. That is a good start. The book was published in 2011 and this recorded book has been on my shelves for a long time. Somehow in the moving, it turned up on the top of a box, so I decided it was time to get it off my shelves. It is a memoir about a literary magazine editor who buys into a New York City deli with his wife and mother-in-law. He ends up working full time at his editors job and also full time doing the evening and night shift at the deli as well. He is a yuppie type and the customers are not, so this is also an ethnographic kind of memoir about the gentrification of one of the NYC neighborhoods. It is a recorded book and the reader is doing a great job. It should keep my occupied for a couple of trips to knitting class.
Non-Book Activities: work. Either at work, or at home with the moving boxes. Today I am washing up some blankets and getting them put into the proper closets. Of course, that means that I have to evaluate what is already in the closets, and decide which ones to keep and which to take to a thrift store.
On my knitting class trip I managed to locate a Mexican bakery and so came home with a sack full of Mexican rolls of various kinds. They are good, so I shared them with a cousin and his family last night. They are going to be in Lincoln this weekend for a baseball tournament, so I hope they make a visit to the bakery and bring home their own rolls and pastries.
Reading Time Today: 2 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: leftovers for breakfast and lunch. I have enough food in the refrig to last me until next week so won't be cooking this weekend.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 502
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1552 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
13alcottacre
Saturday Night Update
Books read from: Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr. (audiobook), The Dark Road by Ma Jian, and Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
Books finished: 2, Stride Toward Freedom and Emily, Alone
Time reading: ~1.6 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~3.2 hours + listening to audiobook
Books read from: Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr. (audiobook), The Dark Road by Ma Jian, and Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
Books finished: 2, Stride Toward Freedom and Emily, Alone
Time reading: ~1.6 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~3.2 hours + listening to audiobook
14PawsforThought
Update on Saturdays’s reading.
Another not-great reading day.
Books read from: A Mind to Murder, The Women of Trachis and Alcestis
Books finished: The Women of Trachis
Time reading: Somewhere close to three hours
Non-book activities: A long walk, tiny bit of grocery shopping, looking after dad, doomscrolling, dance aerobics, Duolingo.
Another not-great reading day.
Books read from: A Mind to Murder, The Women of Trachis and Alcestis
Books finished: The Women of Trachis
Time reading: Somewhere close to three hours
Non-book activities: A long walk, tiny bit of grocery shopping, looking after dad, doomscrolling, dance aerobics, Duolingo.
15PocheFamily
Sunday morning update:
Books read from:
- The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
- The Frozen River: A Novel
- North Woods: A Novel - where I need to focus my time today
- Hellcats of the Sea
- A Cool Guide to Statistics and Data Science - finished
- also read the intro's and into the first chapters of The Republic of Imagination: A Life in Books and The Welsh Kings: Warriors, Warlords And Princes, so I could properly acknowledge these gifts.
Snacks: Irish Brown bread. Last weekend's reading about Ireland had me looking for a recipe and trying my hand at it. Quite delish!
Thoughts: Too many books, and too slow a reader. This should be on my tombstone.
Non-book activities: 1. phone app distractions - only one could be said to be improving. 2. looking for recipes that use whole wheat flour. 3. trying several traditional Irish dishes I'd read about but never tasted: mushy peas (love it), Irish leek and potato soup (love it), and the aforementioned Irish brown bread (trifecta). A little much all in one meal, but now that I've figured them out I can sprinkle these tasty items throughout the menu. This morning I tried a new (whole wheat) healthier pancake recipe - a winner - and tonight I'm trying Lamb Biryani to use up some leg of lamb. But otherwise, today is too windy to be out under the trees in the garden (always a danger of gravity under their limbs) so I should at least make progress on the above list of books.
Books read from:
- The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
- The Frozen River: A Novel
- North Woods: A Novel - where I need to focus my time today
- Hellcats of the Sea
- A Cool Guide to Statistics and Data Science - finished
- also read the intro's and into the first chapters of The Republic of Imagination: A Life in Books and The Welsh Kings: Warriors, Warlords And Princes, so I could properly acknowledge these gifts.
Snacks: Irish Brown bread. Last weekend's reading about Ireland had me looking for a recipe and trying my hand at it. Quite delish!
Thoughts: Too many books, and too slow a reader. This should be on my tombstone.
Non-book activities: 1. phone app distractions - only one could be said to be improving. 2. looking for recipes that use whole wheat flour. 3. trying several traditional Irish dishes I'd read about but never tasted: mushy peas (love it), Irish leek and potato soup (love it), and the aforementioned Irish brown bread (trifecta). A little much all in one meal, but now that I've figured them out I can sprinkle these tasty items throughout the menu. This morning I tried a new (whole wheat) healthier pancake recipe - a winner - and tonight I'm trying Lamb Biryani to use up some leg of lamb. But otherwise, today is too windy to be out under the trees in the garden (always a danger of gravity under their limbs) so I should at least make progress on the above list of books.
16nrmay
Sun a.m.
As expected, not much adult reading this weekend.
Read to grandies -
THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF, the classic Paul Galdone version.
PUSS IN BOOTS, with the gorgeous illustrations of Jerry Pinkney.
Chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast, by special request.
Other:
3 kids’ softball games
watched INSIDE OUT II for family movie night.
As expected, not much adult reading this weekend.
Read to grandies -
THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF, the classic Paul Galdone version.
PUSS IN BOOTS, with the gorgeous illustrations of Jerry Pinkney.
Chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast, by special request.
Other:
3 kids’ softball games
watched INSIDE OUT II for family movie night.
17PocheFamily
Weekend wrap-up:
Books read from:
- The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
- The Frozen River: A Novel
- North Woods: A Novel
- Hellcats of the Sea
- A Cool Guide to Statistics and Data Science - finished
- also read the intro's and into the first chapters of The Republic of Imagination: A Life in Books and The Welsh Kings: Warriors, Warlords And Princes
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 7
Nearly finished with the first two books listed, and should finish the 3rd today, so am grateful once again for a R-a-Th to make me focus!
Books read from:
- The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
- The Frozen River: A Novel
- North Woods: A Novel
- Hellcats of the Sea
- A Cool Guide to Statistics and Data Science - finished
- also read the intro's and into the first chapters of The Republic of Imagination: A Life in Books and The Welsh Kings: Warriors, Warlords And Princes
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 7
Nearly finished with the first two books listed, and should finish the 3rd today, so am grateful once again for a R-a-Th to make me focus!
18alcottacre
Sunday Night Update
Books read from: The Dark Road by Ma Jian, Futureface by Alex Wagner, Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire, and Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives by Lucy Mangan
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.4 hours
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~5.6 hours + listening to audiobook
I did not get nearly as much reading done as I had hoped to do, but I did finish a few books so I am happy with that!
Books read from: The Dark Road by Ma Jian, Futureface by Alex Wagner, Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire, and Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives by Lucy Mangan
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.4 hours
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~5.6 hours + listening to audiobook
I did not get nearly as much reading done as I had hoped to do, but I did finish a few books so I am happy with that!
19ChrisG1
Weekend summary:
Books read from: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 edited by Robert Silverberg.
Books finished: A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959
Pages read: 150-ish
A fairly light reading weekend. We spent Friday afternoon & evening attending my grandson's track meet. He won his event, the high jump, with a new meet record, which is also the highest jump in the State of Oregon so far this season - 6'10". His hard work and dedication has been impressive & we're all happy for him. Saturday evening was our granddaughter's performance in her high school musical - The Newsies. As a senior, this is her last hurrah in high school theater. It's been a great activity for her & it's a joy to see her blossom.
Books read from: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 edited by Robert Silverberg.
Books finished: A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959
Pages read: 150-ish
A fairly light reading weekend. We spent Friday afternoon & evening attending my grandson's track meet. He won his event, the high jump, with a new meet record, which is also the highest jump in the State of Oregon so far this season - 6'10". His hard work and dedication has been impressive & we're all happy for him. Saturday evening was our granddaughter's performance in her high school musical - The Newsies. As a senior, this is her last hurrah in high school theater. It's been a great activity for her & it's a joy to see her blossom.
20benitastrnad
Weekend Wrapup
Books read from: I continued reading Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis doing it a few pages a day. My computer book remains Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I reading River At the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester. I started listening to My Korean Deli: Risking it All For A Convenience Store by Ben Ryder Howe.
Books finished: none this weekend
Book Thoughts: I am about to finish River At the Center of the World and am loving it. I have a thing about travel books. I simply love to read about travels all over the world. This book's journey back into Chinese time is not back to Ancient China. It is back to about 1850. It is really about the development of modern China. There is a huge section about the Three Gorges Dam that was very informative. I am amazed about how much I didn't know about the Yangtze. I now have dreams of doing a river cruise of the Yangtze, but I know that is not going to be possible, so I really really appreciated this book and the journey it allowed me to take.
Non-Book Activities: Today I went to the Seed store and purchased some potting soil and a few herbs. I am starting out with all new potting soil because I didn't move my pots from Alabama to Kansas with dirt in them. That means I am going to spend a whole bunch of money on plants that I don't normally spend. When I got home I planted a few of the plants and will do more tomorrow. My one plant experiment this year is Sage. I have never been successful in growing Sage, but am going to try to get it to grow here this year. I also want to find a Mint that grows in Kansas, but the store didn't have any Mint. They will be getting more plants in so I will try to get some then.
I did more knitting this weekend than anything else, and am about to finish a project. I always spend more time knitting when I am close to finishing a project. I can't wait to see it get done so I binge on knitting.
Reading Time Today: 2 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 6 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: leftover Punjabi beef and potatoes
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 502
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1556 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: I continued reading Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis doing it a few pages a day. My computer book remains Eating My Way Through Italy by Elizabeth Minchilli. I reading River At the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester. I started listening to My Korean Deli: Risking it All For A Convenience Store by Ben Ryder Howe.
Books finished: none this weekend
Book Thoughts: I am about to finish River At the Center of the World and am loving it. I have a thing about travel books. I simply love to read about travels all over the world. This book's journey back into Chinese time is not back to Ancient China. It is back to about 1850. It is really about the development of modern China. There is a huge section about the Three Gorges Dam that was very informative. I am amazed about how much I didn't know about the Yangtze. I now have dreams of doing a river cruise of the Yangtze, but I know that is not going to be possible, so I really really appreciated this book and the journey it allowed me to take.
Non-Book Activities: Today I went to the Seed store and purchased some potting soil and a few herbs. I am starting out with all new potting soil because I didn't move my pots from Alabama to Kansas with dirt in them. That means I am going to spend a whole bunch of money on plants that I don't normally spend. When I got home I planted a few of the plants and will do more tomorrow. My one plant experiment this year is Sage. I have never been successful in growing Sage, but am going to try to get it to grow here this year. I also want to find a Mint that grows in Kansas, but the store didn't have any Mint. They will be getting more plants in so I will try to get some then.
I did more knitting this weekend than anything else, and am about to finish a project. I always spend more time knitting when I am close to finishing a project. I can't wait to see it get done so I binge on knitting.
Reading Time Today: 2 hour
Time Reading this weekend: 6 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: leftover Punjabi beef and potatoes
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 502
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1556 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
