Social Distancing Readathon #71 - July 23 - 25

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
2. Luci (elkiedee) -- London, UK
3. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
4. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
5. June (June) -- South Carolina, USA
6. Susanna (susanna.fraser) -- Seattle, Washington, USA
7. Anne (AnneDC) -- Washington DC, USA
8. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
9. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
10. Lori (thornton37814) -- Tennessee, USA
11. Chris (ChrisG1)
12. Paul (PaulCranswick) -- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

I'm in.

Have just finished several books - there's one more it's possible I'll finish tomorrow or over the weekend, because my reading yesterday turned out to be more than half of the book. But my main goal will just be making progress with several books I'm reading now and also whatever books I'm about to start. I have a truly absurd number of shiny new library books here. I did actually give a couple in and rejoin the reservation queue - and have months of reading still, so I shouldn't mind having to wait a bit, but I still need to press on with others.

Count me in!
I've been missing here for a couple weeks.. but I've been reading.

Currently reading Agent in Place by Mark Greaney.

I'm in again. I plan on a long Sunday at the pool, so hope to get lots of reading done this coming weekend.

I'd like to participate again. I will be reading Shadow Intelligence by Oliver Harris. Then I'll sample the first few paragraphs of some other library books to see what's next.

Count me in again. I've got a fairly busy weekend scheduled, but I'm hoping to finish How the Word is Passed and The Premonition, though I might need to find something light and happy to read between them.

I'll be back this weekend too. I have four books going that I could possibly finish, and it should be a quiet weekend as my husband is out of town.

>6 susanna.fraser: I loved How the Word is Passed and I can see why you might need something light and happy.

I will join in for a bit on Friday and Saturday. I have guests coming to stay the week on Sunday so I will have some work to do around the house on Saturday. But I will take reading breaks. :-)

I'm in- I am reading In the Kitchen by Monica Ali

I'm hoping to get a little reading done this weekend. It may not be tons because I've got a few other things to do, but I hope to finish at least one book. I've got several in rotation.

Traveling this weekend, so I'll simply lurk to see what you all are reading - have fun!

I'm in Silver and off to Attolia this weekend with Megan Whalen Turner (Books 2 & 3) of the Thief series.

Friday evening in Seattle:

Books read from: How the Word is Passed
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Food: Chicken soup for dinner
Thoughts: The fact that Angola Prison and others like it continue to operate in America is a rotting cancer on this nation's soul.
Non-book activities: work, laundry

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 hours

Saturday morning check-in

Books read from: The Shadow Intelligence, other possibilities include A Master of Djinn, Leave the World Behind and Witness for the Dead
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours

Snacks: boiled peanuts
Thoughts: I'm trapped in the house by the smoke from a fire 3000 miles away.
Non-book activities: cooking

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 hours

Saturday morning 8:30 am report

Books read from: The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis, Bible (ESV), Near to the Heart of God by Robert J. Morgan, Be Heroic by Warren W. Wiersbe, Curiosity Thrilled the Cat by Sofie Kelly (audio)
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting:
Snacks: Cereal for breakfast
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: genealogy-related stuff (prepping for forthcoming trip, doing program committee stuff), phone call with cousin, Walmart grocery pickup (mostly non-grocery items like cat litter, cat food, paper plates, trash bags)

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 2 hours

Report on Friday reading (so far no Saturday reading)

Books read from: I've finished Braiding Sweetgrass and Hedda Gabler and read a little bit of The Jeffersonian Transformation and The Night Watchman and a few poems from She Had Some Horses. Braiding Sweetgrass was an audiobook and I'll be moving on to The House of the Seven Gables next, and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is next up on my Kindle.
Books finished: 2
Time reading: 2 hours reading, 81 minutes listening
Pages read: 109
Time posting: none till now
Snacks: falafel sandwich from the farmers market
Thoughts: I loved Braiding Sweetgrass but can't say whether it left me feeling inspired or discouraged. Some of both, but more discouraged. As in, we could fix the planet, but we probably won't.
Non-book activities: walked dog, gave filthy dog a bath, watched Olympic opening ceremonies, yoga, farmers' market

Total books finished: 2 Braiding Sweetgrass, Hedda Gabler
Total read from: 5 Braiding Sweetgrass, Hedda Gabler, The Night Watchman, The Jeffersonian Transformation, She Had Some Horses
Total pages read: 109
Total time reading: 2 hours reading, 81 minutes listening

Still reading In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
I had lunch outside at a restaurant patio with friend who has just come to Toronto- life felt almost normal.

Saturday night in Seattle:

Books read from: How the Word is Passed
Books finished: How the Word is Passed
Time reading: 3 hours
Food: Curry for dinner
Thoughts: I believe this is the most important book I've read this year
Non-book activities: usual Saturday errands, afternoon nap

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 5 hours

Report on Saturday reading

Books read from: The Jeffersonian Transformation, The Night Watchman, The March, House of the Seven Gables
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 1/2 hours reading, 3 hours 14 minutes listening
Pages read: 189
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: gazpacho and deviled eggs, blackberry crisp
Thoughts: It's been a lovely Saturday but I didn't realize it had gotten this late!
Non-book activities: made deviled eggs and blackberry crisp, met a friend at the pool
Total books finished: 2 Braiding Sweetgrass, Hedda Gabler
Total read from: 7 Braiding Sweetgrass, Hedda Gabler, The Night Watchman, The Jeffersonian Transformation, She Had Some Horses, The March, The House of the Seven Gables
Total pages read: 298
Total time reading: 4 1/2 hours reading, 4 hours 35 minutes listening

Sunday morning check-in:

Books read from: A Shadow Intelligence, A Master of Djinn
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3 hours

Snacks: peanut butter sandwich
Thoughts: A Shadow Intelligence features interaction with NGO's, corporations, security forces, etc. So very modern.
Non-book activities:Cleaning

Total books finished:0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 5 hours

Sunday afternoon 5.45 pm

I've not posted much before because I've not been feeling well. mostly just very little energy and having to lie down a lot. I have managed to get through quite a bit of reading in the last few days, including finishing several books and reading the whole of book that is being published as a novel but is very very short - reviews refer to it being 112 pages but I have a copy with no page numbers and it doesn't seem to be that long at but am not quite sure about what I read when.

Books read from:
Lucy Kellaway, Re-Educated - FINISHED 23.07.21
Natasha Brown, Assembly - STARTED 23,07.21, FINISHED 25.07.21
Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie - STARTED 25.07.21
Paula Byrne, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds
Lyndsay Faye, Seven for a Secret
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mr Tom

Books finished: 1
Books read from: 7
Pages read: 278
Non-book activities: Sleep, radio and TV, Bejeweled Blitz, Social media, and a meeting on Zoom yesterday

Total books finished: 1
Total pages readL 278
Total read from: 7

Almost finished In the Kitchen by Monica Ali- the plot wanders too much-( the main story gets lost)
I also half listened to two podcasts on World Drama- they were very depressing- I wonder whether the programmer thought that really grim plays would be welcomed eagerly by an audience that had been in lockdown for about 16 months! I listened to a music programme online produced by Toronto Summer Music- beautiful duo- one hour in length-they have mastered the lockdown programming very well.

Sunday evening:

Books read from: The Hill We Climb, The Premonition
Books finished: The Hill We Climb
Time reading: 3 hours
Food: Leftovers
Thoughts: This was a weird week followed by a weird weekend. Hopefully I can get a good night's sleep and get myself recombobulated.
Non-book activities: church, podcasts

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 8 hours

Sunday night in California -

I have been reading, even if not posting much.
Lots of playtime with the granddaughters going on.

Books:
finished Agent in Place by Mark Greaney, in the Gray Man series.
Started a fantasy - Wildwood Dancing, a retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses fairy tale.
I read a couple short chapter books by Betsy Byars to my 5 yr old -
Beans on the Roof and
Tornado, a dog story.

Snack: pizza

Other activity: watching Olympics

61 degrees F. (16 C.) at 10p in Burlingame CA.
(79 F. back home in NC)

Did manage to complete The Queen of Attolia and make a dent in The King of Attolia. Very good books, I must say!

Sunday evening reading

Still feeling icky. Mostly just another big dent in the Barbara Pym biography (which is rather long).

Books read from: 1
Paula Byrne, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

Books finished: 0
Books read from: 1
Pages read: 96
Non-book activities: Sleep, radio and TV, Bejeweled Blitz, Social media,

Total books finished: 1
Total pages readL 374
Total read from: 7

Last check-in:

Books read from: A Shadow Intelligence and A Master of Djinn
Books finished: A Shadow Intelligence
Time reading: 3 hours

Snacks: iced tea
Thoughts: A Shadow Intelligence is the best spy novel I have read recently. I look forward to a sequel.
Non-book activities: cleaning, aerobics

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading:7 hours

Final Update: Sunday reading

Books read from: The Jeffersonian Transformation, The Night Watchman, ,The House of the Seven Gables, She Had Some Horses, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours reading, 4 hours 5 minutes listening
Pages read: 194
Time posting: 5 minutes
Dinner: leftover curry
Thoughts: I got very little actual reading done today, but was able to listen to The House of the Seven Gables while submitting insanely repetitive health insurance reimbursement claims before the end of the month.
Non-book activities: made blueberry pancakes for breakfast, read NYT, yoga with friend, watered garden, walked dog, opened my mail, paid bills, processed 20-21 health care reimbursement claims due 7/29,
Total books finished: 2 Braiding Sweetgrass, Hedda Gabler
Total read from: 8 Braiding Sweetgrass, Hedda Gabler, The Night Watchman, The Jeffersonian Transformation, She Had Some Horses, The March, The House of the Seven Gables, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Total pages read: 492
Total time reading: 6 1/2 hours reading, 8 hours 40 minutes listening

I got busy over the weekend and failed to post any more. I did read a little more but I probably only read about 6 hours over the weekend. Just too much other stuff to do. (Same list of books as in other post.) I'll be doing laundry and packing on Saturday and driving on Sunday. I'll probably get in more listening than reading, but it won't rival some of my better weekends.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/334003