Labor Day Readathon - Social Distancing #284 - August 29 - September 1
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2025
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1SilverWolf28
Welcome to the Labor Day readathon!
Since it's Labor Day in the United States we'll be reading through Monday. Even if you're not in the US you can still read and post as long as you want.
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
Since it's Labor Day in the United States we'll be reading through Monday. Even if you're not in the US you can still read and post as long as you want.
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
2ChrisG1
I'll jump in - currently reading Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie.
3avatiakh
I'll jump in too. Current reads are The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey & American Visa by Juan de Recacoechea .
4nrmay
Jumping in with a splash!
Currently reading
ACROSS CHINA
JUBILEE, a long one at nearly 500p.
THE GIRL IN THE GATEHOUSE, for this month’s writer challenge.
May go to a neighborhood Labor Day cook-out/potluck on Mon.
Currently reading
ACROSS CHINA
JUBILEE, a long one at nearly 500p.
THE GIRL IN THE GATEHOUSE, for this month’s writer challenge.
May go to a neighborhood Labor Day cook-out/potluck on Mon.
5benitastrnad
I will be on all weekend. I hope to spend the weekend reading. I get an extra day off so I hope to spend a great deal of time reading.
6benitastrnad
Weekend STartup
Books read from: My continuous reading book is now Mapp & Lucia by E. F. Benson and then it became the short story The Male Impersonator. My computer book is Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe. I am still working on Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano and I started reading Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley. I listening to Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
Books finished: Once Upone a River by Diane Setterfield. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Book Thoughts: I finished listening to Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield and I liked this book. It didn't get good reviews, but I liked it. It was a bit of a fairytale combined with a morality tale, combined with a good mystery. There were lots of parts to this novel and it took a long time to resolve the mystery, but it was worth all the waiting. The narrator was excellent. She put lots of effort into different expressions for different characters and that alone made it a memorable book to listen to.
Non-Book Activities: I am planning on a nice long weekend in order to get lots of things done. I need to do some more cooking and plan on making a leek gratin this weekend. I also have the last of the zucchini and eggplant and will do a vegetable ratoutille with them. I also have to make sure to start getting some things cooked for the tea next weekend. I have a start but I need to order flowers and some things cooked and into the refrigerator so that I am not doing all of it next Friday and Saturday.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 1 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: yogurt and pastry from the Mexican bakery.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 527
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1623 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: My continuous reading book is now Mapp & Lucia by E. F. Benson and then it became the short story The Male Impersonator. My computer book is Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe. I am still working on Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano and I started reading Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley. I listening to Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
Books finished: Once Upone a River by Diane Setterfield. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Book Thoughts: I finished listening to Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield and I liked this book. It didn't get good reviews, but I liked it. It was a bit of a fairytale combined with a morality tale, combined with a good mystery. There were lots of parts to this novel and it took a long time to resolve the mystery, but it was worth all the waiting. The narrator was excellent. She put lots of effort into different expressions for different characters and that alone made it a memorable book to listen to.
Non-Book Activities: I am planning on a nice long weekend in order to get lots of things done. I need to do some more cooking and plan on making a leek gratin this weekend. I also have the last of the zucchini and eggplant and will do a vegetable ratoutille with them. I also have to make sure to start getting some things cooked for the tea next weekend. I have a start but I need to order flowers and some things cooked and into the refrigerator so that I am not doing all of it next Friday and Saturday.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 1 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: yogurt and pastry from the Mexican bakery.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 527
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1623 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
7PocheFamily
Back from a few days away, I'll be balancing getting caught up and reading this weekend. Going to be a lazy one for me, I can already tell! I'll begin shortly, a little early, continuing with The Winds from Further West: A Novel I came across on Libby audiobooks available. It's a little stressful, to my surprise, as it has political undertones, but I cheated and looked up the basic plot (not the resolution) to see if I could manage to see it through and have confidence I shall.
And should you need a "Motto of the Day," feel free to borrow what has become our family's today, borrowed from the Royal Australian Navy: "Strength, Silence, Surprise". And for clarification, this does NOT mean one is allowed to sneak up behind unsuspecting family members and wrestle them to the ground.
And should you need a "Motto of the Day," feel free to borrow what has become our family's today, borrowed from the Royal Australian Navy: "Strength, Silence, Surprise". And for clarification, this does NOT mean one is allowed to sneak up behind unsuspecting family members and wrestle them to the ground.
8alcottacre
I am in this weekend! I have a couple of TIOLI books that I need to finish.
I hope everyone gets some great reading in!
I hope everyone gets some great reading in!
9alcottacre
Not a lot of reading time today between the gaming marathon and CFS kicking in:
Books read from: A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear, The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb, and Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Books finished: 1, A Lesson in Secrets
Time reading: 96 minutes + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 96 minutes + listening to audiobook
Books read from: A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear, The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb, and Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Books finished: 1, A Lesson in Secrets
Time reading: 96 minutes + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 96 minutes + listening to audiobook
10nrmay
Friday evening
Book:
Concentrating on THE GIRL IN THE GATEHOUSE today.
I started early and read in between chores and watching episodes of MARLOW MURDER CLUB on PBS.
I also went for an early evening walk. Somewhat cooler temps are such a relief after a scorching July.
Book:
Concentrating on THE GIRL IN THE GATEHOUSE today.
I started early and read in between chores and watching episodes of MARLOW MURDER CLUB on PBS.
I also went for an early evening walk. Somewhat cooler temps are such a relief after a scorching July.
11benitastrnad
Saturday report
Books read from: My list of books has suddenly gotten smaller. My continuous reading book is now Mapp & Lucia by E. F. Benson. My computer book is Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe. I am still working on Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano and I started reading Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley. I listening to Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
Books finished: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Book Thoughts: I finished reading The Yearling and found it a rather boring book. I think the title should have been "The 1880's Wildlife, Weather, and Subsistence Farming Report for North Florida." The descriptions of the wildlife, plants, and the land went on endlessly. I am not sure if the author wrote the book so that people would know about the different species of flora and fauna or if she was trying to do something else. I thought that it was interesting that the Florida Black Bears are now making a comeback and are causing trouble in many urban centers as a result. I wonder what Floridians would do if they thought that along with alligators they would have to deal with wolves as well. I was reading this book at the same time that the flip-flap about Cracker Barrell was going on. All that niceness about the name coming from the crackers that were delivered in barrels to country stores was just that. Read this book and find out what that word, in the South, really means. It was a description for subsistence farmers. What I thought was unusual was that a children's book won the Pulitzer Prize for 1943. That is noteworthy. I read this book for my real life book discussion group. Somehow this title came up in a previous discussion and it turned out that only 2 people out of 8 had read it. It went on our list, and it will be our October selection. I am not sorry I read this book, but I don't think that it would fly for readers today. Too much description and not enough action.
Non-Book Activities: I am planning on a nice long weekend in order to get lots of things done. I need to do some more cooking and plan on making a leek gratin this weekend. I also have the last of the zucchini and eggplant and will do a vegetable ratatouille with them. I also have to make sure to start getting some things cooked for the tea next weekend. I have a start but I need to order flowers and some things cooked and into the refrigerator so that I am not doing all of it next Friday and Saturday.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: yogurt and pastry from the Mexican bakery.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 527
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1624 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: My list of books has suddenly gotten smaller. My continuous reading book is now Mapp & Lucia by E. F. Benson. My computer book is Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe. I am still working on Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano and I started reading Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley. I listening to Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
Books finished: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Book Thoughts: I finished reading The Yearling and found it a rather boring book. I think the title should have been "The 1880's Wildlife, Weather, and Subsistence Farming Report for North Florida." The descriptions of the wildlife, plants, and the land went on endlessly. I am not sure if the author wrote the book so that people would know about the different species of flora and fauna or if she was trying to do something else. I thought that it was interesting that the Florida Black Bears are now making a comeback and are causing trouble in many urban centers as a result. I wonder what Floridians would do if they thought that along with alligators they would have to deal with wolves as well. I was reading this book at the same time that the flip-flap about Cracker Barrell was going on. All that niceness about the name coming from the crackers that were delivered in barrels to country stores was just that. Read this book and find out what that word, in the South, really means. It was a description for subsistence farmers. What I thought was unusual was that a children's book won the Pulitzer Prize for 1943. That is noteworthy. I read this book for my real life book discussion group. Somehow this title came up in a previous discussion and it turned out that only 2 people out of 8 had read it. It went on our list, and it will be our October selection. I am not sorry I read this book, but I don't think that it would fly for readers today. Too much description and not enough action.
Non-Book Activities: I am planning on a nice long weekend in order to get lots of things done. I need to do some more cooking and plan on making a leek gratin this weekend. I also have the last of the zucchini and eggplant and will do a vegetable ratatouille with them. I also have to make sure to start getting some things cooked for the tea next weekend. I have a start but I need to order flowers and some things cooked and into the refrigerator so that I am not doing all of it next Friday and Saturday.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: yogurt and pastry from the Mexican bakery.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 527
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1624 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
12nrmay
Sat early afternoon.
Book: THE GIRL IN THE GATEHOUSE
Snacks: peanuts, grapes, toasted mini croissant.
Ready to read after a long 3.5 mile walk this morning. I’m rejoicing in the cooler temps. 70s/80s instead of 90s, and a nice breeze!
I saw deer, chipmunk, mockingbird, butterflies, geese and ducks this morning.
Book: THE GIRL IN THE GATEHOUSE
Snacks: peanuts, grapes, toasted mini croissant.
Ready to read after a long 3.5 mile walk this morning. I’m rejoicing in the cooler temps. 70s/80s instead of 90s, and a nice breeze!
I saw deer, chipmunk, mockingbird, butterflies, geese and ducks this morning.
13avatiakh
Sunday 1pm checkin:
I'm still reading from The Book of Guilt by Catherine CHidgey & American Visa by Juan de Recacoechea. I'm enjoying both and hope to finish them by this evening.
Just been into Auckland CBD and browsed Unity Books, took note of some books to look up at home. From Unity Children's Books which is the shop next door to Unity I bought The Raven's Eye Runaways by Claire Mabey.
Food: I made rice soup which is now all gone. Last night we made sabich in pita which was a success.
I'm still reading from The Book of Guilt by Catherine CHidgey & American Visa by Juan de Recacoechea. I'm enjoying both and hope to finish them by this evening.
Just been into Auckland CBD and browsed Unity Books, took note of some books to look up at home. From Unity Children's Books which is the shop next door to Unity I bought The Raven's Eye Runaways by Claire Mabey.
Food: I made rice soup which is now all gone. Last night we made sabich in pita which was a success.
14alcottacre
Saturday Night Summary:
Books read from: Secrets in Death by J. D. Robb (audiobook), The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb, Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, and Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
Books finished: 1, The Sewing Circles of Herat
Time reading: ~2 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~3.5 hours + listening to audiobook
Lots of naps today - thanks, CFS. Heading to bed now. Thanks again, CFS.
Books read from: Secrets in Death by J. D. Robb (audiobook), The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb, Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, and Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
Books finished: 1, The Sewing Circles of Herat
Time reading: ~2 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~3.5 hours + listening to audiobook
Lots of naps today - thanks, CFS. Heading to bed now. Thanks again, CFS.
15avatiakh
Sunday 10pm
Books read from: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey & American Visa by Juan de Recacoechea
Books finished: The Book of Guilt, American Visa
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Will pick up my final August read though there's no chance that I'll finish it by midnight: A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin
Dinner: chicken schnitzel with cauliflower followed by Thai tea.
Weather: very stormy early spring weather with lots of rain and wind, thunder & lightning.
Books read from: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey & American Visa by Juan de Recacoechea
Books finished: The Book of Guilt, American Visa
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Will pick up my final August read though there's no chance that I'll finish it by midnight: A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin
Dinner: chicken schnitzel with cauliflower followed by Thai tea.
Weather: very stormy early spring weather with lots of rain and wind, thunder & lightning.
16PocheFamily
@avatiakh ... I was hoping you'd mention signs of spring - it helps knowing that while I'm noticing a few signs of late summer/early autumn, someone somewhere is seeing spring!
My thoughts have been on other parts of the world this weekend, following short email banters with a son re: "Strength, Silence, and Surprise", a motto of the RAN submarine force. And as I enjoy Alexander McCall Smith's The Winds from Further West, I'm finding myself on a Scottish island. Google Earth only increases the daydreaming ...
Finished Neuromancer yesterday and expect to be tackling some naval history later this afternoon. My mind is certainly on water as I attempt to bolster my dried out garden and yard with a good soaking this weekend.
My thoughts have been on other parts of the world this weekend, following short email banters with a son re: "Strength, Silence, and Surprise", a motto of the RAN submarine force. And as I enjoy Alexander McCall Smith's The Winds from Further West, I'm finding myself on a Scottish island. Google Earth only increases the daydreaming ...
Finished Neuromancer yesterday and expect to be tackling some naval history later this afternoon. My mind is certainly on water as I attempt to bolster my dried out garden and yard with a good soaking this weekend.
17nrmay
Sunday night
Books:
Finished THE GIRL IN THE GATEHOUSE
Now back to
JUBILEE and
ACROSS CHINA
Dinner:
my sis & BIL were here for dinner & movie night. Olives, feta, Shish-kebobs, lemon rice, salad, coconut cake.
We watched THURSDAY MURDER CLUB.
Books:
Finished THE GIRL IN THE GATEHOUSE
Now back to
JUBILEE and
ACROSS CHINA
Dinner:
my sis & BIL were here for dinner & movie night. Olives, feta, Shish-kebobs, lemon rice, salad, coconut cake.
We watched THURSDAY MURDER CLUB.
18alcottacre
Sunday Night Summary:
Books read from: Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin, Village School by Miss Read, A Dog’s Life by Peter Mayle, and The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
Books finished: 1, Hana Khan Carries On
Time reading: ~2.3 hours
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~5.8 hours + listening to audiobook
Books read from: Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin, Village School by Miss Read, A Dog’s Life by Peter Mayle, and The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
Books finished: 1, Hana Khan Carries On
Time reading: ~2.3 hours
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~5.8 hours + listening to audiobook
19nrmay
Monday afternoon at Jordan Lake
“I sat by the lake, I looked at the sky,
And as I looked, the boats sailed by…”
(apologies to Mike McClintock)
Book:
STRANDED, Nikki Smith,
a small pb l found to bring to the lake.
Family picnic & sailing today.
Nice breeze & whitecaps on the lake.
Sunny, 78F/25C
“I sat by the lake, I looked at the sky,
And as I looked, the boats sailed by…”
(apologies to Mike McClintock)
Book:
STRANDED, Nikki Smith,
a small pb l found to bring to the lake.
Family picnic & sailing today.
Nice breeze & whitecaps on the lake.
Sunny, 78F/25C
20avatiakh
>16 PocheFamily: We've been ready for the change of season, a bleak though not terribly cold winter coming to an end. Arguments about the first day of spring, I always take it from the 1st of September but my husband insists it's later in the month.
We live in subtropical Auckland which has harbours on both coasts, Manukau harbour and the Waitemata, lots of islands and dormant volcanoes, beautiful beaches and coastline. The climate isn't as hot and dry as Australia but then we don't experience their bushfires.
Reading: I've picked up several of my September books and am reading from - The Great When by Alan Moore, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, The Birds of East Africa and Bandit's Daughter by Simon Mason.
We live in subtropical Auckland which has harbours on both coasts, Manukau harbour and the Waitemata, lots of islands and dormant volcanoes, beautiful beaches and coastline. The climate isn't as hot and dry as Australia but then we don't experience their bushfires.
Reading: I've picked up several of my September books and am reading from - The Great When by Alan Moore, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, The Birds of East Africa and Bandit's Daughter by Simon Mason.
21benitastrnad
Monday Markings
Books read from: My continuous reading book is now Mapp & Lucia by E. F. Benson. My computer book is Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe. I am still working on Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano and I started reading Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley and Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers I listening to Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
Books finished: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Book Thoughts: I haven't gotten as much done as I thought I would. Or even as much reading as I wanted to. I done some things, but want to sneek in another hour of reading tonight. Seven Sisters is turning out to be a slog. It is reading like a glorified Harlequin romance novel. The print is small and the paper is that goldish color of aged books and the printing is of poor quality, so it is hard to read. It is also quite long at 480 pages. I have a feeling that it will seem even longer. What is bugging me about the novel is that it is all about priviledge. It is about a woman who extremely wealthy father has adopted 6 girls from different places around the world, educated them, and then dies, leaving them to find their "real" families. This is romancit clap-trap. It is a silly plot device and makes me want to laugh. It is over long, with the author taking far too much time to set up the depth and breadth of the priviledge of the main characters. Then she repeats all that stuff with each character. Cutting that nonesense would have cut 20 pages off the length of the book and that would have been a good thing.
Non-Book Activities: I am doing alot of knitting. Last night I was talking on the phone and I made a mistake in the pattern and had to go back and redo 5 rows this morning. I got it done and have now knitted farther than I was when I made the mistake. But it was time I didn't want to take. It rained this morning, so I will put off going out to the freezer for another day. I need to go to town tomorrow and will stamp out my fancy bread for sandwiches tomorrow and put them back in the freezer. I also have to go get some more groceries for my sandwiches for the tea. Not sure how many people will be there, but it should be fun, no matter who shows up.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 3 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: I am going to cut up and refrigerate a watermelon and make a watermelon salad tonight.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 527
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1625 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: My continuous reading book is now Mapp & Lucia by E. F. Benson. My computer book is Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe. I am still working on Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano and I started reading Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley and Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers I listening to Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
Books finished: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Book Thoughts: I haven't gotten as much done as I thought I would. Or even as much reading as I wanted to. I done some things, but want to sneek in another hour of reading tonight. Seven Sisters is turning out to be a slog. It is reading like a glorified Harlequin romance novel. The print is small and the paper is that goldish color of aged books and the printing is of poor quality, so it is hard to read. It is also quite long at 480 pages. I have a feeling that it will seem even longer. What is bugging me about the novel is that it is all about priviledge. It is about a woman who extremely wealthy father has adopted 6 girls from different places around the world, educated them, and then dies, leaving them to find their "real" families. This is romancit clap-trap. It is a silly plot device and makes me want to laugh. It is over long, with the author taking far too much time to set up the depth and breadth of the priviledge of the main characters. Then she repeats all that stuff with each character. Cutting that nonesense would have cut 20 pages off the length of the book and that would have been a good thing.
Non-Book Activities: I am doing alot of knitting. Last night I was talking on the phone and I made a mistake in the pattern and had to go back and redo 5 rows this morning. I got it done and have now knitted farther than I was when I made the mistake. But it was time I didn't want to take. It rained this morning, so I will put off going out to the freezer for another day. I need to go to town tomorrow and will stamp out my fancy bread for sandwiches tomorrow and put them back in the freezer. I also have to go get some more groceries for my sandwiches for the tea. Not sure how many people will be there, but it should be fun, no matter who shows up.
Reading Time Today: 1 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 3 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: I am going to cut up and refrigerate a watermelon and make a watermelon salad tonight.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 527
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1625 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
22avatiakh
>21 benitastrnad: I have a copy of Seven Sisters, picked it up in curiosity as the series seems madly popular at my local bookshop. Thought it might be as you've described.
I have it down for reading this month as there's a 'sisters' challenge in the TIOLI, sounds like I'll leave it after 50 pages or so.
I have it down for reading this month as there's a 'sisters' challenge in the TIOLI, sounds like I'll leave it after 50 pages or so.
23benitastrnad
>22 avatiakh:
I might be a bit more critical than most about this, but the book is not clicking yet. It is for my real life book club and they seem to like these long historical fiction novels that to me are more of the same.
I might be a bit more critical than most about this, but the book is not clicking yet. It is for my real life book club and they seem to like these long historical fiction novels that to me are more of the same.
24PocheFamily
Weekend wrap-up:
Quote from The Winds from Further West, ch. 8: "You had to fight the losing battle because that was the only way of protecting what needed to be protected."
Non-book activities: daydreaming - lovely weather, lovely restful weekend
Total books finished: 3
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- The Winds from Further West, Alexander McCall Smith
- The Pavilion in the Clouds, Alexander McCall Smith
Others read from but not yet finished: 2
- The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War, Mark Stille
- sampling of another military history
Total time reading: 16h+
Re: spring - Equinoxes may be the official starts, but we all know that when we see the first signs, that's when spring begins in the soul!
I have British cousins who bounce between Auckland and London, and even dated a Kiwi myself back in college ;) Someday I hope to visit! But today my screen saver appears to be Mauritius, and the book I was listening to was set in pre-war Ceylon, so forgive me for dreaming of a different ocean today!
Quote from The Winds from Further West, ch. 8: "You had to fight the losing battle because that was the only way of protecting what needed to be protected."
Non-book activities: daydreaming - lovely weather, lovely restful weekend
Total books finished: 3
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- The Winds from Further West, Alexander McCall Smith
- The Pavilion in the Clouds, Alexander McCall Smith
Others read from but not yet finished: 2
- The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War, Mark Stille
- sampling of another military history
Total time reading: 16h+
Re: spring - Equinoxes may be the official starts, but we all know that when we see the first signs, that's when spring begins in the soul!
I have British cousins who bounce between Auckland and London, and even dated a Kiwi myself back in college ;) Someday I hope to visit! But today my screen saver appears to be Mauritius, and the book I was listening to was set in pre-war Ceylon, so forgive me for dreaming of a different ocean today!
25ChrisG1
Weekend Summary:
Books read from: Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie, Forty Lashes Less One by Elmore Leonard, Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason by Christina Shelton
Books finished: All of the above
Pages read: 800-ish
Yeah, I didn't have a lot of things distracting me from reading, so I did a lot of it.
Books read from: Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie, Forty Lashes Less One by Elmore Leonard, Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason by Christina Shelton
Books finished: All of the above
Pages read: 800-ish
Yeah, I didn't have a lot of things distracting me from reading, so I did a lot of it.
26nrmay
Wrapping up the weekend
Books:
Finished one.
Still reading
JUBILEE, classic Afr-American historical fiction.
And started
A SMALL FURRY PRAYER: DOG RESCUE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE.
I read 12 books in August for a total of 81 in 2025 so far; 3 of these off the TBR shelves.
Books:
Finished one.
Still reading
JUBILEE, classic Afr-American historical fiction.
And started
A SMALL FURRY PRAYER: DOG RESCUE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE.
I read 12 books in August for a total of 81 in 2025 so far; 3 of these off the TBR shelves.
