Social Distancing Readathon #327 - June 26 - 28

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:

I'm in - currently reading The Glory by Herman Wouk.

Kerry and I have a home project going on this weekend, but I am hoping to read my way around the time spent on that :)

I'm in; I want to make good progress on 1 or 2 books to finish out the month.

I'm in. I have one book to finish for my June challenges. Then, I am going to start reading for some of the July TIOLI challenges, along with some ROOTs.

Also, I just finished my 100th book of the year. I am going to be working on a 100- books retrospective over on my 75 book challenge list.

I'm closing in on finishing 2 audiobooks and a Kindle read. Still tackling closets (different ones, I swear!) and the dungeon (aka basement). On Fridays I try to "get it out" of the house, by donating, tossing, or otherwise fighting the stuff-tsunami that occurred while raising kids. Today that will mean hitting the post office (sorry, cousins, but you volunteered to receive some kid puzzles!) as well as the community donation bins.

Speaking of which, I have several 1000 piece puzzles I'm happy to ship to a good home, should anyone want them (I think you can message me through my Profile page)!

I’m currently reading
ANGELS OF THE RESISTANCE
WATCH US SHINE
THE YELLOW BIRDS by Kevin Powers.
He will be at our village bookshop on Saturday. I bought this one and his new book, CHILDREN OF THE WILD: A NOVEL. I have heard him talk a couple times at that FL book festival l like to go to in Feb.

Last day of farm day camp today so
my little niece goes home this evening.

Partly sunny ☀️
86F/30C

Currently I am reading Rifles for Watie, another Newbery.

Friday Afternoon Summary, Alabama, USA
Books Read From: 3
The Return of Moriarty by John Gardner, Pathways to Bliss by Joseph Campbell, and The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Books Completed: 1
The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Wrote up 100 books by the numbers

Friday Follow Up:

Books read from: Forgotten in Death by J. D. Robb (audiobook), Letters to Alice by Fay Weldon, Three Minutes in Poland by Glenn Kurtz, Far Rainbow by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
Books finished: 2, Forgotten in Death and Far Rainbow
Time reading: ~3.5 hours + listening to audiobook

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ~3.5 hours + listening to audiobook

The push to finish up all the books I have remaining to read this month is on!

Friday reading:

Books read from: 2:
--Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte; a re-read on audiobook
--The Well-Beloved, Thomas Hardy
Books finished Friday: 0
Time reading Friday: 3.5 hours
Viewing: watched the first episode of the BBC mini-series South Riding; I read this book in May and enjoyed it. So far what's been portrayed is in the book, although it is quite abridged. Since the mini-series is just 3 episodes (1 hour each), there's no way all the details of the book would fit in 3 hours total.

Bookish goals for Saturday:
--donate a bagful of books to a local library sale
--finish listening to the last few chapters of Jane Eyre while running errands today
--continue with The Well-Beloved

Love Jane Eyre, have reread it several times. The miniseries with Timothy Dalton and Zelah Clarke was pretty faithful, and so I purchased it on DVD.

Saturday Afternoon Summary, Alabama, USA
No changes in the books read from or completed.
Activities: Went to 2 farmers' markets and a consignment shop.

Bought three books for very cheap: Varina by Charles Frazier, The Rose Code by Kate Quinn and The Devil's Acolyte by Michael Jecks.

Friday: read a few more chapters of A Canticle For Leibowitz, and did a little listen-along to the reading to keep me going. It's like having company as I read!

Saturday: listened to a bit of Noli Me Tángere: An Eagle Flight: The English Translation and Pachinko and hope to get back to Pachinko this evening.

Thoughts: I think I finally get where the Leibowitz story is going, but it's been a long road ...
Non-book activities: tidying, updating my book catalogue as I cull my sons' books, and updating the task list as I look around the house and see the repairs that are needed. Tomorrow I'll do a little painting and continue with the tidying. Wish I had a bit more time to sit and read!

>12 fuzzi: Oh yes, I've read it many, many times. The audiobook I have is read by Juliet Stevenson, one of my favorite narrators. And totally agree about the Timothy Dalton/Zelah Clarke adaptation. One year I watched something like 8 or 9 adaptations and it still came out on top for me. I do like Ruth Wilson's performance in the 2006 mini-series, but the adaptation feels less faithful to me and Toby Stephens just doesn't fit how I imagine Mr Rochester.

Saturday reading:

Books read from: 1
--Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte; on audiobook: finished. After finishing I read all the notes and read the introduction of my Oxford World's Classics edition.
Books finished Saturday: 1
Time reading Saturday: 2.5 hours

Other bookish stuff on Saturday:
--donated a bagful of books to a local library sale
--bought (at B&N) David McCullough's The American Spirit: Who We are and What We Stand For, which I thought would be good reading for July & the 250th
--finalized my pile of reading possibilities for July

Goals for Sunday:
--read a good chunk of The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy

Saturday Summary:

Books read from: City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker (audiobook), Letters to Alice by Fay Weldon, Three Minutes in Poland by Glenn Kurtz, and The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
Books finished: 1, Three Minutes in Poland
Time reading: ~4 hours + listening to audiobook

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~7.5 hours + listening to audiobook

Sunday Afternoon Update
Total Books Read From: 4
The Return of Moriarty by John Gardner, Pathways to Bliss by Joseph Campbell, The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore

Total Books Completed: 1
The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Weekend summary:

Books read from: The Glory by Herman Wouk, Courageous by Jack Campbell
Books finished: The Glory
Pages read: 500-ish

>19 ChrisG1: I have not read The Glory for probably 30 years now. I really must dig out my copy! I used to be a big Herman Wouk fan back in the day.

Sunday Synopsis:

Books read from: City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker (audiobook), Letters to Alice by Fay Weldon, The River of Doubt by Candice Millard, A Flat Place by Noreen Masud, Paris Was a Woman by Andrea Weiss, and The Witches of Karres by James Schmitz
Books finished: 2, Letters to Alice and The River of Doubt
Time reading: ~4.4 hours + listening to audiobook

Total books finished: 5
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: ~11.9 hours + listening to audiobook

Weekend Wrap-Up, Alabama, USA
Total Books Read From: 5
The Return of Moriarty by John Gardner, Pathways to Bliss by Joseph Campbell, The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore, and Half Magic by Edward Eager

Total Books Completed: 2
The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Pathways to Bliss by Joseph Campbell (review written)

Other Book-y Activities:

• Bought 3 books at a consignment shop: Varina by Charles Frazier, The Rose Code by Kate Quinn and The Devil's Acolyte by Michael Jecks
• Wrote my 100 books by the numbers
• Completed all books planned for the June TIOLI challenges. I completed 15 of the 18 challenges and a total of 20 books.

Sunday reading:

Books read from: 2
--The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects
--The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy--finished!

Books finished Sunday: 1
Time reading Sunday: 4.75 hours

Weekend Wrap-up:

Books read from: 3
--Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte--finished!
--The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects
--The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy--finished!

Total Readathon books finished: 2

Total Readathon time reading: 10.75 hours

Very pleased that I finished the 2 books I set out to finish over the weekend. Thanks for hosting, Silver!

(touchstones are being fussy--may come back later to see if they're in a better mood.....)

Weekend summary:

Books read from:
- audiobook Noli Me Tángere: An Eagle Flight: The English Translation
- paperback A Canticle For Leibowitz (with a little read-along with the audiobook version)
Books finished: audiobooks Pachinko and Quantum Physics Simplified
Time reading: Maybe 2h/day (struggled to find the time this weekend)

Thoughts: Was hoping Noli Me Tangere would help me learn something about the Philippines, but no. The translation is weak (imo) and I'm not fond of the narrator: I'll finish, but not having fun with this one.

Non-book activities: Dinner out with a couple where the women were introducing the men to one another. Since we were brought together through our kids, who work together, it's actually been fun. Our son first thought it was great, now he thinks it is weird - and if one stands back and looks at it, sure! But the other wife and I hit it off and have become friends, so on we go. Besides, if you can't make your children a little weirded out on occasion, what fun are you having??

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~6h

>20 alcottacre: Same for me - I had never gotten around to this before, but his WWII duology is a personal favorite of mine.

>25 ChrisG1: All my life at home I remember that my dad had 2 books on his dresser: Versus, poems by Ogden Nash; and The Caine Mutiny. Needless to say, he was in the Navy in WWII. I've read the Ogden Nash (actually he would read it to us) but have yet to tackle Wouk. I will, one day.

Not quite finished Rifles for Watie, but it's good.

I bought a copy of Our Only May Amelia for my granddaughters, wound up rereading it today.

Final report

Books:
Finished WATCH US SHINE
Now reading and enjoying
THE WIZARD’S BUTLER, quirky and
entertaining.
This was an LT BB and l finally ordered it from Thriftbooks when l couldn’t find it at any of the 4 libraries l use.

I’m also a fan of H Wouk.
I liked WINDS OF WAR, WAR AND REMEMBRANCE, and MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR.

Read two:

Shan's Lucky Knife
Our Only May Amelia

Still haven't finished Rifles for Watie, got busy with cooking produce and harvesting elderberries.

>25 ChrisG1: I can understand your love for the WWII duology. I was introduced to Wouk through the miniseries and then read the books later.

>28 nrmay: Woot for more Wouk fans, Nancy!