Social Distancing Readathon #292 - October 24 - 26
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
2avatiakh
I'll join in as it's a long weekend for me.
Labour Weekend - 'New Zealand's Labour Day commemorates the historical struggle for the eight-hour working day, which was famously championed by carpenter Samuel Parnell in 1840.'
Kerry from Auckland, NZ. It's already 3.30pm, Friday pm
I have two books I'd like to get a move on: Wolf Totem & The Feeling of Iron, barely made any headway so far.
Also on the go is YA Glasgow Boys & The ghosts of Rose Hill.
ebooks I'd like to tackle: Six Lives & The end of everything.
If I can finish some of these before the end of the month I'll be happy.
Dinner is all ready to go for the next two nights as I have a a slow-cooked brisket & bolognese sauce all done.
Labour Weekend - 'New Zealand's Labour Day commemorates the historical struggle for the eight-hour working day, which was famously championed by carpenter Samuel Parnell in 1840.'
Kerry from Auckland, NZ. It's already 3.30pm, Friday pm
I have two books I'd like to get a move on: Wolf Totem & The Feeling of Iron, barely made any headway so far.
Also on the go is YA Glasgow Boys & The ghosts of Rose Hill.
ebooks I'd like to tackle: Six Lives & The end of everything.
If I can finish some of these before the end of the month I'll be happy.
Dinner is all ready to go for the next two nights as I have a a slow-cooked brisket & bolognese sauce all done.
3PaulCranswick
I am going to take tomorrow morning off work (Saturday) and plan to try and finish at least four books this weekend (hopefully five).
4nrmay
I’ll be reading all weekend as I’m confined with Covid. Feeling much better today.
Books:
THE GOD OF THE WOODS
and next up
THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE
Books:
THE GOD OF THE WOODS
and next up
THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE
5PocheFamily
I'm driving on the dreaded I-95 this weekend for a funeral in Rhode Island, and then racing back home to host a dinner Sunday evening. Thus a limited opportunity to sit with a book and a good 8+ hours for an audiobook (oh the "joys" of driving in Connecticut!).
I'm listening to Dracula for a fun bookgroup read (we meet just before Halloween), and still am plodding through The Briar Club. I'm unlikely to post a wrap-up until late Monday or Tuesday, but hoping to hit 10h total. I should be reading The Magic Mountain, but I don't see where I'll find the time, and will only hope some materializes next week before Tuesday evening's meeting (our group is reading it in chunks).
Have fun everyone, and I look forward to reading about your reading adventures next week!
I'm listening to Dracula for a fun bookgroup read (we meet just before Halloween), and still am plodding through The Briar Club. I'm unlikely to post a wrap-up until late Monday or Tuesday, but hoping to hit 10h total. I should be reading The Magic Mountain, but I don't see where I'll find the time, and will only hope some materializes next week before Tuesday evening's meeting (our group is reading it in chunks).
Have fun everyone, and I look forward to reading about your reading adventures next week!
6ChrisG1
I'm in - should get a decent amount of reading in even though we're going over the mountains to visit my daughter & her family. Currently reading Nemesis Games by James s. A. Corey and The Conquering Tide by Ian W. Toll.
7benitastrnad
I'm in this weekend. I hope to have a nice long weekend of reading and listening.
8benitastrnad
Weekend Start
Books read from: My continuous reading book is now Trouble for Lucia by E. F. Benson. My computer book is Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe. I am still reading, a page or two at a time of, Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. I have started Prey on Patmos by Jeffrey Siger and have finished Gilided Ones by Namina Forna. I am listening to Morning Star and finished listening to Golden Son by Pierce Brown.
Books finished: Golden Son by Pierce Brown. Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Book Thoughts: I have three books out from ILL and they are due back next week, so I had better get busy this weekend and do some reading and listening. I finished Gilded Ones and was somewhat disappointed in this YA novel that is based in African myths. I found the writing simplistic and the characterization thin. I listened to the recorded version of Golden Son and loved it. This is a sequel that lives up to the original. Very well written. This is another series that was miscast. It is an adult series and not a YA series, but publishing it as a YA series allowed it to gain a reading audience. I had planned to listen to this book while driving on my vacation, but the loaner car didn't have a CD player in it. That meant that I was reduced to listening to NPR on the Sirius Radio NPR channel. I spent most of the week listening to the Golden Son.
Non-Book Activities: I spent the last week catching up from taking two days off. That is the problem with going on vacation. It is hard to get everything done ahead of time to go on vacation and hard to catch up with what accumulates while you are gone.
Reading Time Today: 2 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: I will need to do some baking.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 542
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1682 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: My continuous reading book is now Trouble for Lucia by E. F. Benson. My computer book is Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe. I am still reading, a page or two at a time of, Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. I have started Prey on Patmos by Jeffrey Siger and have finished Gilided Ones by Namina Forna. I am listening to Morning Star and finished listening to Golden Son by Pierce Brown.
Books finished: Golden Son by Pierce Brown. Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Book Thoughts: I have three books out from ILL and they are due back next week, so I had better get busy this weekend and do some reading and listening. I finished Gilded Ones and was somewhat disappointed in this YA novel that is based in African myths. I found the writing simplistic and the characterization thin. I listened to the recorded version of Golden Son and loved it. This is a sequel that lives up to the original. Very well written. This is another series that was miscast. It is an adult series and not a YA series, but publishing it as a YA series allowed it to gain a reading audience. I had planned to listen to this book while driving on my vacation, but the loaner car didn't have a CD player in it. That meant that I was reduced to listening to NPR on the Sirius Radio NPR channel. I spent most of the week listening to the Golden Son.
Non-Book Activities: I spent the last week catching up from taking two days off. That is the problem with going on vacation. It is hard to get everything done ahead of time to go on vacation and hard to catch up with what accumulates while you are gone.
Reading Time Today: 2 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 2 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: I will need to do some baking.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 542
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1682 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
9alcottacre
I will be in as much as I can be!
10avatiakh
>8 benitastrnad: I have the first book, Red Rising, on my tbr pile, will have to move it up.
I baked magdalenas this morning, a treat for my daughter who loved these when we were in Spain some years ago.
Reading: not much, a few pages of Glasgow Boys & Wolf Totem.
I woke up early around 4am so made a chana dahl and baked magdalenas and then went shopping for veges at a couple of Chinese supermarkets. They're quite crowded on the weekend so I got there very early. Returned a library book, had a flat white at the library cafe and it's still early in the day.
The spring weather is still not exciting, overcast, cold and looks like rain is on its way. My son was going out on a drone excursion but will probably flag it for another time.
I baked magdalenas this morning, a treat for my daughter who loved these when we were in Spain some years ago.
Reading: not much, a few pages of Glasgow Boys & Wolf Totem.
I woke up early around 4am so made a chana dahl and baked magdalenas and then went shopping for veges at a couple of Chinese supermarkets. They're quite crowded on the weekend so I got there very early. Returned a library book, had a flat white at the library cafe and it's still early in the day.
The spring weather is still not exciting, overcast, cold and looks like rain is on its way. My son was going out on a drone excursion but will probably flag it for another time.
11EllaTim
I’m in this weekend. It’s rainy and very windy outside, and I think I caught a cold.So I’ll be staying inside.
Reading a biography of a dutch writer of the 18th century Een vrije geest. I need to finish it before tuesday, 450 pages, but I’m halfway through, so doing well.
Drinking: ginger and kurkuma tea.
Eating: licorice (I need to stop that).
I’m on page 233 now. We’ll see.
Reading a biography of a dutch writer of the 18th century Een vrije geest. I need to finish it before tuesday, 450 pages, but I’m halfway through, so doing well.
Drinking: ginger and kurkuma tea.
Eating: licorice (I need to stop that).
I’m on page 233 now. We’ll see.
12Elanna76
I am new here, and a read-a-thon is right what I need to tackle the 130-plus unread books I own - not counting the library ones...
I am off until the 3rd of November, and I count on reading a lot and tidying up my imported library. Heavenly... if unplanned socialisation doesn't get in the way.
Book-wise I have:
On my bed-side table
Tristram Shandy - reading at a snail's pace, but worh the effort
George Orwell's Essays - not my favourite intellectual nor person, but sure thing a goldmine of insight and reflection
On my sofa-side table
On Beauty by Umberto Eco - a bit like the encyclopedias of my childhood, but also touching a lot on philosophy. Gotta love the passages from literature of each epoch.
Let's see if I can finish it
To sleep in a sea of stars by Christopher Paolini meh. May not finish. Curious about the developments, but my palate is too spoilt by Iain M. Banks not to notice the total lack of real ideas and style - also this guy seems to steal a lot from the Culture, which brings us to...
On my Libro.fm account
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
What will I do when I finish the Culture series? Start again, probably.
Snacks:
God help us, I spend my week working in an office next to the Altar to Insulin Resistance, a cornucopia of chocolate and candy constantly repleted in crazed agonism by 19 rabid middle-aged cookie addicts of which I am a proud specimen. I'll be sipping coffee and soup thank you very much. If the lads don't call with a bottle of Poitín. In that case, I'll see ye on the other side next Saturday, when I wake up on top of a tree in Moycullen with a crocodile tail. And that's possibility a) for non-books activities. Possibility b) is decluttering, framing jigsaws, doing jigsaws and walking somewhere forestish, if it doesn't lash.
I am off until the 3rd of November, and I count on reading a lot and tidying up my imported library. Heavenly... if unplanned socialisation doesn't get in the way.
Book-wise I have:
On my bed-side table
Tristram Shandy - reading at a snail's pace, but worh the effort
George Orwell's Essays - not my favourite intellectual nor person, but sure thing a goldmine of insight and reflection
On my sofa-side table
On Beauty by Umberto Eco - a bit like the encyclopedias of my childhood, but also touching a lot on philosophy. Gotta love the passages from literature of each epoch.
Let's see if I can finish it
To sleep in a sea of stars by Christopher Paolini meh. May not finish. Curious about the developments, but my palate is too spoilt by Iain M. Banks not to notice the total lack of real ideas and style - also this guy seems to steal a lot from the Culture, which brings us to...
On my Libro.fm account
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
What will I do when I finish the Culture series? Start again, probably.
Snacks:
God help us, I spend my week working in an office next to the Altar to Insulin Resistance, a cornucopia of chocolate and candy constantly repleted in crazed agonism by 19 rabid middle-aged cookie addicts of which I am a proud specimen. I'll be sipping coffee and soup thank you very much. If the lads don't call with a bottle of Poitín. In that case, I'll see ye on the other side next Saturday, when I wake up on top of a tree in Moycullen with a crocodile tail. And that's possibility a) for non-books activities. Possibility b) is decluttering, framing jigsaws, doing jigsaws and walking somewhere forestish, if it doesn't lash.
13alcottacre
Friday Night Update:
Books read from: The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich (audiobook), Bookworm by Lucy Mangan, The Story of Archaeological Decipherment by Maurice Pope, and Cold Earth by Sarah Moss
Books finished: 1, Bookworm
Time reading: ~2.9 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~2.9 hours + listening to audiobook
Barely passed 7:30pm and I am already heading to bed. CFS stinks.
Books read from: The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich (audiobook), Bookworm by Lucy Mangan, The Story of Archaeological Decipherment by Maurice Pope, and Cold Earth by Sarah Moss
Books finished: 1, Bookworm
Time reading: ~2.9 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~2.9 hours + listening to audiobook
Barely passed 7:30pm and I am already heading to bed. CFS stinks.
14nrmay
Late-night Saturday
Books:
Finished THE GOD OF THE WOODS,
a good thriller set at a summer camp in the Adirondack wilderness.
Next - THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE by Richard Osman, 5th in the entertaining THURSDAY MURDER CLUB series.
Not quite got my appetite back but dinner was leftover fried chicken & mashed potatoes.
Still closeted in the guest room to protect my husband while l get over Covid. I figure 4 more days. I have felt well enough for a short walk outdoors the last couple days.
So, with time to reflect, l have decided to adopt a pair of cats whose owner has died. One of my missions, besides sharing books with the world, is taking in needy cats. I have had a cat vacancy for 3 yrs since the last one died; longest l’ve lived without one in my adult life. Thinking of collecting them on Fri once my self-imposed isolation is over. This may put a damper on my passion for travel.
Books:
Finished THE GOD OF THE WOODS,
a good thriller set at a summer camp in the Adirondack wilderness.
Next - THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE by Richard Osman, 5th in the entertaining THURSDAY MURDER CLUB series.
Not quite got my appetite back but dinner was leftover fried chicken & mashed potatoes.
Still closeted in the guest room to protect my husband while l get over Covid. I figure 4 more days. I have felt well enough for a short walk outdoors the last couple days.
So, with time to reflect, l have decided to adopt a pair of cats whose owner has died. One of my missions, besides sharing books with the world, is taking in needy cats. I have had a cat vacancy for 3 yrs since the last one died; longest l’ve lived without one in my adult life. Thinking of collecting them on Fri once my self-imposed isolation is over. This may put a damper on my passion for travel.
15ReneeMarie
>14 nrmay: Good on you. My first pair of cats were from a litter at the living history museum back in 1991. I had never had a cat, but I didn't figure Tripod had a great chance for survival outside through the winter, and got suckered ("two cats are no more trouble nor expense than one") into taking her brother, Ascot. My current cats I got together at the shelter (housed in the same room but not bonded): Bertha (had been there longest of all the cats, she was terrified of people) and One-Eyed Jack (my PITA cat, but still loved).
16nrmay
>15 ReneeMarie:
My new ones are young females, littermates, 2 yrs old.
Decades ago, my first sibling pair were a tiny male and female hiding by the side of a grocery store. I went in and bought a bag of cat food and carried them home in the grocery bag.
Last pair I had were two young orange brothers - Harley and Hobbes. My niece brought them home when the shelter lost power in a winter storm. They never returned but lived happily ever after with me.
My new ones are young females, littermates, 2 yrs old.
Decades ago, my first sibling pair were a tiny male and female hiding by the side of a grocery store. I went in and bought a bag of cat food and carried them home in the grocery bag.
Last pair I had were two young orange brothers - Harley and Hobbes. My niece brought them home when the shelter lost power in a winter storm. They never returned but lived happily ever after with me.
17ReneeMarie
>16 nrmay: I've had 4 other cats in my lifetime, too. Coincidentally, my current cats I adopted after losing my orange boy, Sweet William, to pancreatitis. He was a farm kitten I adopted and renamed (they had been calling him Loverboy). And also weirdly and coincidentally, One-Eyed Jack was named Hobbes when at the shelter -- and then they modified that to Captain Hobbes (arrrrghh) when they had to remove his eye.
18ReneeMarie
>8 benitastrnad: The Forna series does have a YA-aged protagonist, so it may come by that categorization honestly. We've had local schools order the series.
And, believe it or not, apparently more adults than young adults read YA. I tend to enjoy middle grade more than YA. I don't know the stats for adult readers of middle grade. I have sold middle grade novels to adults for themselves on multiple occasions.
And, believe it or not, apparently more adults than young adults read YA. I tend to enjoy middle grade more than YA. I don't know the stats for adult readers of middle grade. I have sold middle grade novels to adults for themselves on multiple occasions.
19ReneeMarie
>12 Elanna76: After reading this, I had to check your profile to see whether I was right about your location. I was. :-)
20alcottacre
This past weekend was pretty much of a bust for me. I read very little on Saturday and did not pick up a book at all on Sunday. I did, however, get a lot of sleeping done. *sigh*
>14 nrmay: Glad to see you enjoyed The God of the Woods, Nancy, and hope you enjoy the latest Thursday Murder Club book!
>14 nrmay: Glad to see you enjoyed The God of the Woods, Nancy, and hope you enjoy the latest Thursday Murder Club book!
21nrmay
>20 alcottacre:
Loved all the female characters in GOD OF THE WOODS. Still thinking of them and wondering what happens next for all of them. Would like to meet the spunky trooper, Judyeta, again!
About 1/3 way through THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE. Great British humor & quirky characters.
Loved all the female characters in GOD OF THE WOODS. Still thinking of them and wondering what happens next for all of them. Would like to meet the spunky trooper, Judyeta, again!
About 1/3 way through THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE. Great British humor & quirky characters.
23nrmay
It’s a wrap -
Book:
still reading
THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE
DRIVING MISS NORMA
Food:
not much-cornbread, chicken wings, V8
Other activity:
Not much - still isolating. 2 more days after today. Raining & cold today so l didn’t even have my afternoon walk. Long phone call with my sis.
Book:
still reading
THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE
DRIVING MISS NORMA
Food:
not much-cornbread, chicken wings, V8
Other activity:
Not much - still isolating. 2 more days after today. Raining & cold today so l didn’t even have my afternoon walk. Long phone call with my sis.
24alcottacre
>22 nrmay: Unfortunately, no. Currently there is no known cause or treatment for it. Thanks, Nancy.
CFS is great if you like sleeping 12-16 hours a day, every day. It is definitely not for me though, lol.
CFS is great if you like sleeping 12-16 hours a day, every day. It is definitely not for me though, lol.
25avatiakh
>20 alcottacre: Same for me. I even had a 3 day weekend and didn't read much at all.
Got far enough into Glasgow Boys to start enjoying it after the initial dislike at the start. I've read a lot of YA about struggling boys & girls and don't really want to read more but this won the Carnegie Medal (UK) this year so have persevered.
Also read some more from Wolf Totem where I'm enjoying learning about Mongolian life on the steppes.
Talking about cats: we adopted 3 ginger brothers a few years ago from the RSPCA. We only wanted two kittens but couldn't decide which to leave behind so took all three. One has ended up as a tripod and one just doesn't fit in that well, he's quite aggressive and bitey. They live outside during the summer months, only spending time inside during colder weather.
Conrad Clawdius- named for Joseph Conrad who my daughter was studying at the time, though with three legs he gets lots of nicknames, Kanga, hoppy, hopalong, tripod etc.
Gauis Baltar - after a Battlestar Galactica character
Maximus Bigfoot - Max was his kennel name, he answers to Max and is our aggressive cat. He stalks our old tabby girl, Freya.
I decided on ginger cats because our neighbour's cat, Hugo, is a lovely ginger and was visiting our backyard a lot at the time. He also used our cat door to visit us at night too.
Got far enough into Glasgow Boys to start enjoying it after the initial dislike at the start. I've read a lot of YA about struggling boys & girls and don't really want to read more but this won the Carnegie Medal (UK) this year so have persevered.
Also read some more from Wolf Totem where I'm enjoying learning about Mongolian life on the steppes.
Talking about cats: we adopted 3 ginger brothers a few years ago from the RSPCA. We only wanted two kittens but couldn't decide which to leave behind so took all three. One has ended up as a tripod and one just doesn't fit in that well, he's quite aggressive and bitey. They live outside during the summer months, only spending time inside during colder weather.
Conrad Clawdius- named for Joseph Conrad who my daughter was studying at the time, though with three legs he gets lots of nicknames, Kanga, hoppy, hopalong, tripod etc.
Gauis Baltar - after a Battlestar Galactica character
Maximus Bigfoot - Max was his kennel name, he answers to Max and is our aggressive cat. He stalks our old tabby girl, Freya.
I decided on ginger cats because our neighbour's cat, Hugo, is a lovely ginger and was visiting our backyard a lot at the time. He also used our cat door to visit us at night too.
26ChrisG1
Weekend summary:
Books read from: Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey, The Conquering Tide by Ian W. Toll
Books Finished: Nemesis Games
Pages read: 450-ish
Non-reading activity - Had a fun time at my daughter's home on the other side of the mountains celebrating our grandson's 2nd birthday.
Books read from: Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey, The Conquering Tide by Ian W. Toll
Books Finished: Nemesis Games
Pages read: 450-ish
Non-reading activity - Had a fun time at my daughter's home on the other side of the mountains celebrating our grandson's 2nd birthday.
27nrmay
>25 avatiakh:
Very partial to ginger cats! I’ve had several, including Peach, a sweet little female. Rare, l guess, since 80% of gingers are male.
>26 ChrisG1:
2-yr-olds are adorable and funny. 😊
I have a photo of my 2-yr-old ‘Minnie Mouse’ in my profile pics.
Happy Birthday to your grandson! 🎂
Very partial to ginger cats! I’ve had several, including Peach, a sweet little female. Rare, l guess, since 80% of gingers are male.
>26 ChrisG1:
2-yr-olds are adorable and funny. 😊
I have a photo of my 2-yr-old ‘Minnie Mouse’ in my profile pics.
Happy Birthday to your grandson! 🎂
28benitastrnad
Weekend Wrapup
Books read from: My continuous reading book is now Trouble for Lucia by E. F. Benson. My computer book is Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe. I am still reading, a page or two at a time of, Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. I finished Prey on Patmos by Jeffrey Siger and Golden Son by Pierce Brown. I am listening to Morning Star by Pierce Brown.
Books finished: Prey on Patmos by Jeffrey Siger. Golden Son by Pierce Brown. Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Book Thoughts: I can't believe that I didn't get back to my computer for the entire weekend. I had planned to do a little cooking and lots of reading during this gloomy wet and cool fall weekend, but that didn't happen. I did lots of listening and have almost finished Morning Star. I found that listening while cooking works really well for me.
Non-Book Activities: I spent the entire weekend working on church stuff. First I cooked all day Saturday to get ready for the potluck on Sunday. Then I spent all day Sunday at church. We had our Fall Festival and I had great fun watching the kids roll pumpkins and bob for apples. I even taught the apple bobbers to do the Ogh-Ogh Dance. It was a fun afternoon. I had time yesterday (Monday) to carve a jack-o-lantern and hope to get another one done today since it is gloomy, rainy, and cold. Typical fall weather for this part of the country. I can do that and listen to the last part of Morning Star since it is due tomorrow.
Reading Time Today: 4 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 6 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: Baked an apple cake, Tator Tot casserole.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 543
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1688 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
Books read from: My continuous reading book is now Trouble for Lucia by E. F. Benson. My computer book is Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe. I am still reading, a page or two at a time of, Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. I finished Prey on Patmos by Jeffrey Siger and Golden Son by Pierce Brown. I am listening to Morning Star by Pierce Brown.
Books finished: Prey on Patmos by Jeffrey Siger. Golden Son by Pierce Brown. Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Book Thoughts: I can't believe that I didn't get back to my computer for the entire weekend. I had planned to do a little cooking and lots of reading during this gloomy wet and cool fall weekend, but that didn't happen. I did lots of listening and have almost finished Morning Star. I found that listening while cooking works really well for me.
Non-Book Activities: I spent the entire weekend working on church stuff. First I cooked all day Saturday to get ready for the potluck on Sunday. Then I spent all day Sunday at church. We had our Fall Festival and I had great fun watching the kids roll pumpkins and bob for apples. I even taught the apple bobbers to do the Ogh-Ogh Dance. It was a fun afternoon. I had time yesterday (Monday) to carve a jack-o-lantern and hope to get another one done today since it is gloomy, rainy, and cold. Typical fall weather for this part of the country. I can do that and listen to the last part of Morning Star since it is due tomorrow.
Reading Time Today: 4 hours
Time Reading this weekend: 6 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: Baked an apple cake, Tator Tot casserole.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 543
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1688 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon starting in April of 2020.
29alcottacre
>25 avatiakh: Sorry you did not get that much reading in either, Kerry. This next weekend is not looking much better for me, unfortunately.
We now have 3 cats too, with the addition of Ilan a few weeks back. None of mine are gingers though: one pure black cat (Mallory), one tortoiseshell (Chalfont), and one tabby (Ilan).
>26 ChrisG1: Yay for grandkids!
>28 benitastrnad: I am going to have to get to the Pierce Brown series one of these days! I like the board game based on the books :)
We now have 3 cats too, with the addition of Ilan a few weeks back. None of mine are gingers though: one pure black cat (Mallory), one tortoiseshell (Chalfont), and one tabby (Ilan).
>26 ChrisG1: Yay for grandkids!
>28 benitastrnad: I am going to have to get to the Pierce Brown series one of these days! I like the board game based on the books :)
