Social Distancing Readathon #134 - October 7 - 9
Charlas75 Books Challenge for 2022
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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
2fuzzi
>1 SilverWolf28: I'm in!
I appreciate you setting this up every weekend.
Currently I'm reading Deliverer by CJ Cherryh, may finish it this weekend.
I appreciate you setting this up every weekend.
Currently I'm reading Deliverer by CJ Cherryh, may finish it this weekend.
3thornton37814
I have a long weekend. I'm planning on doing some cross-stitching, prepping for upcoming genealogy lectures, and maybe even a little bit of reading! ;-)
4The_Hibernator
I'm listening to Halt's Peril, and reading The Quiet you Carry. I will read as much as I can this weekend, but am pretty busy throughout the weekend. :)
5benitastrnad
I will be participating this weekend. I hope to get lots of reading done. And some knitting ...
6cbl_tn
I'm in! I need to finish All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days for a book club meeting Sunday night, and I keep getting sidetracked.
7susanna.fraser
I'm in! I don't have much on my schedule this weekend, so hopefully that will mean a lot of reading time.
8Carmenere
Count me in. I'll be concentrating on The Turn of the Screw plus some of the books I'm still working on from last weekend.
I'll be watching baseball playoffs as I read. Go Guardians!!!!!
I'll be watching baseball playoffs as I read. Go Guardians!!!!!
9elkiedee
I'm still hoping to try again after a couple of months of intending to join in and not getting past the initial declaration (I have read something most weekends, just not got round to recording and posting!), and hope to start very soon as I've nearly finished a book.
Am still dithering about a library outing - I have to do it by Monday when library opening hours are two or three hours longer than today/tomorrow, but would quite like to get it out of the way today if I can get it together. A lot of books with maxed out online renewals, but also some returns and pickups including books reserved by others.
Am still dithering about a library outing - I have to do it by Monday when library opening hours are two or three hours longer than today/tomorrow, but would quite like to get it out of the way today if I can get it together. A lot of books with maxed out online renewals, but also some returns and pickups including books reserved by others.
10kaida46
We have a birthday celebration today and plan to visit the local Japanese restaurant to have sushi, okonomiyaki, tonkatsu, Yum! and my reading will continue with In the Field of Fire for the LT Asia challenge this month and The City of the Beasts for my reading around the world group with the Book Girls, in South America.
11alcottacre
Baseball playoffs begin in the US today, so I am (hopefully) going to be plonked down in front of the TV with a stack of books to hand.
13Carmenere
Friday Update:
Yay! Guardians beat the Rays!
Ooo, Toronto lose at home!
Books read from: The Turn of the Screw & The Dutch House
Books finished:
Time reading: about 3 hours
Snacks: Pizza
Thoughts: Has anyone else felt the need to read the introduction to The Turn of the Screw twice......and with a British accent?
Non-book activities: Watched baseball games - cross stitched a baby bib for my friends daughter.
Total books finished:
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hours
Yay! Guardians beat the Rays!
Ooo, Toronto lose at home!
Books read from: The Turn of the Screw & The Dutch House
Books finished:
Time reading: about 3 hours
Snacks: Pizza
Thoughts: Has anyone else felt the need to read the introduction to The Turn of the Screw twice......and with a British accent?
Non-book activities: Watched baseball games - cross stitched a baby bib for my friends daughter.
Total books finished:
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hours
14susanna.fraser
Friday evening:
Books read from: Elegy for Mary Turner
Books finished: Elegy for Mary Turner
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting: 6:30 PM
Snacks: Tortilla chips
Thoughts: Go Mariners!
Non-book activities: Work, watched Mariners play
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 1 hour
Books read from: Elegy for Mary Turner
Books finished: Elegy for Mary Turner
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting: 6:30 PM
Snacks: Tortilla chips
Thoughts: Go Mariners!
Non-book activities: Work, watched Mariners play
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 1 hour
15benitastrnad
I'm again this week.
Friday night roundup
Books read from: Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty for a LT group read that is long over. Deleuze Connections by John Rajchman for a book discussion in the College of Education that starts this week. My lunch book is now Ms. and the Material Girl by Catherine Gourley. I am listening to and reading from the hardcopy of Good Lord Bird by James McBride for my real life book discussion group that meets next week. I finished listening to Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Book Thoughts: I have to lead the book discussion on Sunday and have only read 130 pages of the book. I had requested the recorded version of this book through Inter-Library Loan back on September 20, and thought that would be plenty of time to get the book. It wasn't. I finally got the book on October 4 and it wasn't until I was out in the car that I noticed that it was due back on October 7. Sure enough the next day, October 5, I got an e-mail telling me that the book was due. I e-mailed them and told them the date I got the notice it was here and could they please extend the due date. It came from a public library in South Carolina, and I am puzzled as to why, when the recorded version of the book was available from Birmingham Public. I am sure that it would 't have taken 2 weeks to get here from Birmingham. Anyway, I am both reading and listening to the book in hopes that I can get more than half done with the book by Sunday. I am going up to Gadsden tomorrow to my sock knitting class, so that will give me 4 hours of listening time and that will knock out a good chunk of the book.
I did manage to get done with Water Knife before I had to give up on it to listen to Good Lord Bird. I enjoyed Water Knife and am a bit puzzled why this environmental thriller wasn't more well liked when it was published in 2015. It now seems prescient. Perhaps that was the problem back in 2015.
Time reading: .5 hours at lunch.
Time posting:
Food: I met friends tonight at the Indian restaurant, and had a good time. Heavy traffic with all the people in town for the big football game.
Nonbook activities: Work
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 267
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 724.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020
Friday night roundup
Books read from: Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty for a LT group read that is long over. Deleuze Connections by John Rajchman for a book discussion in the College of Education that starts this week. My lunch book is now Ms. and the Material Girl by Catherine Gourley. I am listening to and reading from the hardcopy of Good Lord Bird by James McBride for my real life book discussion group that meets next week. I finished listening to Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Book Thoughts: I have to lead the book discussion on Sunday and have only read 130 pages of the book. I had requested the recorded version of this book through Inter-Library Loan back on September 20, and thought that would be plenty of time to get the book. It wasn't. I finally got the book on October 4 and it wasn't until I was out in the car that I noticed that it was due back on October 7. Sure enough the next day, October 5, I got an e-mail telling me that the book was due. I e-mailed them and told them the date I got the notice it was here and could they please extend the due date. It came from a public library in South Carolina, and I am puzzled as to why, when the recorded version of the book was available from Birmingham Public. I am sure that it would 't have taken 2 weeks to get here from Birmingham. Anyway, I am both reading and listening to the book in hopes that I can get more than half done with the book by Sunday. I am going up to Gadsden tomorrow to my sock knitting class, so that will give me 4 hours of listening time and that will knock out a good chunk of the book.
I did manage to get done with Water Knife before I had to give up on it to listen to Good Lord Bird. I enjoyed Water Knife and am a bit puzzled why this environmental thriller wasn't more well liked when it was published in 2015. It now seems prescient. Perhaps that was the problem back in 2015.
Time reading: .5 hours at lunch.
Time posting:
Food: I met friends tonight at the Indian restaurant, and had a good time. Heavy traffic with all the people in town for the big football game.
Nonbook activities: Work
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 267
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 724.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020
16alcottacre
Books read from: Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg, We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper, Fire Watch by Connie Willis, The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury, Tenth of December by George Saunders, and Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette
Books finished: 2, Range of Motion and We Keep the Dead Close
Time reading: ~4.5 hours
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~4.5 hours
Books finished: 2, Range of Motion and We Keep the Dead Close
Time reading: ~4.5 hours
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~4.5 hours
18susanna.fraser
Saturday evening:
Books read from: Robots vs. Fairies, The Optimist's Telescope
Books finished: none
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 7:45 PM
Snacks: spaghetti for dinner
Thoughts: Woohoo Mariners! And Auburn should just rip the bandaid off and fire that Grumpyface McBadPlayCalls currently ineptly coaching them.
Non-book activities: Watched a lot of sports, can you tell?
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 4 hours
Books read from: Robots vs. Fairies, The Optimist's Telescope
Books finished: none
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 7:45 PM
Snacks: spaghetti for dinner
Thoughts: Woohoo Mariners! And Auburn should just rip the bandaid off and fire that Grumpyface McBadPlayCalls currently ineptly coaching them.
Non-book activities: Watched a lot of sports, can you tell?
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 4 hours
19alcottacre
>17 benitastrnad: Yes, they are. I love the time travelers from Oxford :)
20alcottacre
Books read from: Fire Watch by Connie Willis, The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury, Tenth of December by George Saunders, Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette, The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill, When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman, His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet, and Patience and Fortitude by Nicholas Basbanes
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~4 hours
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 10
Total time reading: ~8.5 hours
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~4 hours
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 10
Total time reading: ~8.5 hours
21benitastrnad
Saturday night roundup
Books read from: Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. 2 pages per day in Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty for a LT group read that is long over. Deleuze Connections by John Rajchman for a book discussion in the College of Education. My lunch book is now Ms. and the Material Girl by Catherine Gourley a YA nonfiction work that I have been trying to read for about 4 months. I am listening to and reading from the hardcopy of Good Lord Bird by James McBride for my real life book discussion group that meets next week.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Book Thoughts: I have to lead the book discussion on Sunday for Good Lord Bird and spent 4 hours today listening to the recorded version. I drove up to Gadsden, Alabama to the wonderful yarn and tea shop there to work on the socks that I am knitting and want to get done by Christmas time. I plan to give them to my sister as a Christmas gift. I listened to a huge chunk of the book and am almost ready for the raid on Harper's Ferry.
I stopped at the used bookstore in Birmingham on the way back from Gadsden and purchased some used books. Knitting and books - That makes it a great day.
Time reading: 4 hours of listening time while driving
Time posting:
Food: I took my own lunch with me to the yarn shop and I had three amazing cups of tea while spending the afternoon knitting. I finished one sock and started the second.
Nonbook activities: Work
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 267
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 728.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020
Books read from: Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. 2 pages per day in Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty for a LT group read that is long over. Deleuze Connections by John Rajchman for a book discussion in the College of Education. My lunch book is now Ms. and the Material Girl by Catherine Gourley a YA nonfiction work that I have been trying to read for about 4 months. I am listening to and reading from the hardcopy of Good Lord Bird by James McBride for my real life book discussion group that meets next week.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Book Thoughts: I have to lead the book discussion on Sunday for Good Lord Bird and spent 4 hours today listening to the recorded version. I drove up to Gadsden, Alabama to the wonderful yarn and tea shop there to work on the socks that I am knitting and want to get done by Christmas time. I plan to give them to my sister as a Christmas gift. I listened to a huge chunk of the book and am almost ready for the raid on Harper's Ferry.
I stopped at the used bookstore in Birmingham on the way back from Gadsden and purchased some used books. Knitting and books - That makes it a great day.
Time reading: 4 hours of listening time while driving
Time posting:
Food: I took my own lunch with me to the yarn shop and I had three amazing cups of tea while spending the afternoon knitting. I finished one sock and started the second.
Nonbook activities: Work
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 267
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 728.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020
22Carmenere
Saturday Update:
Oh my gosh! In a marathon game Guardians beat the Rays in 15 innings. On to Yankee stadium!
Books read from: The Turn of the Screw & The Dutch House and The October Country
Books finished:
Time reading: about 2 hours
Snacks: graham crackers in milk
Thoughts: Why can’t early October last for 3 months?
Non-book activities: Went to local documentary film fest with friends then went out to dinner. Watched baseball games - cross stitched a baby bib for my friends daughter.
Total books finished:
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 5 hours
Oh my gosh! In a marathon game Guardians beat the Rays in 15 innings. On to Yankee stadium!
Books read from: The Turn of the Screw & The Dutch House and The October Country
Books finished:
Time reading: about 2 hours
Snacks: graham crackers in milk
Thoughts: Why can’t early October last for 3 months?
Non-book activities: Went to local documentary film fest with friends then went out to dinner. Watched baseball games - cross stitched a baby bib for my friends daughter.
Total books finished:
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 5 hours
23kaida46
Sunday update:
Books read from: In the Field of Fire and City of the Beasts
Finished: City of the Beasts
Time reading: about 5 hours
Snacks: I made a cheese cake to celebrate hubby's birthday and we went to a Japanese restaurant for dinner.
Thoughts: In the Field of Fire can be a downer read as it is a collection of stories trying to represent the experience of people who served in the Vietnam war of the 60's and 70's, PTSD, returning home to an ungrateful public, drugs, guts, and violence, it has to be taken in small doses, so I was balancing it with what was supposed to be an Indiana Jones type of adventure story in the Amazon jungle, as was written on the back cover...
I did not realize City of the Beasts was YA, and I read a fair amount of it, but this story seemed pretty juvenile- the ridiculous Grandmother, the blown out of proportion pompous professor, the handsome but greedy businessman, etc., but it also covered serious topics such as treatment native peoples, cancer in ones family, tainted medicine, and environmental concerns. On the one hand it was a bit shallow and simplistic but then threw in these serious issues and mixed them all up with magical realism and new age mind games. A really weird combination and it did not quite jive for me. Plus the author was long winded to boot. Oh well. This was my first experience with the author and I don't feel like I am in any hurry to have another experience soon. I am glad to have read a new author, to see for myself, and visited another area on my reading around the world voyage.
Books read from: In the Field of Fire and City of the Beasts
Finished: City of the Beasts
Time reading: about 5 hours
Snacks: I made a cheese cake to celebrate hubby's birthday and we went to a Japanese restaurant for dinner.
Thoughts: In the Field of Fire can be a downer read as it is a collection of stories trying to represent the experience of people who served in the Vietnam war of the 60's and 70's, PTSD, returning home to an ungrateful public, drugs, guts, and violence, it has to be taken in small doses, so I was balancing it with what was supposed to be an Indiana Jones type of adventure story in the Amazon jungle, as was written on the back cover...
I did not realize City of the Beasts was YA, and I read a fair amount of it, but this story seemed pretty juvenile- the ridiculous Grandmother, the blown out of proportion pompous professor, the handsome but greedy businessman, etc., but it also covered serious topics such as treatment native peoples, cancer in ones family, tainted medicine, and environmental concerns. On the one hand it was a bit shallow and simplistic but then threw in these serious issues and mixed them all up with magical realism and new age mind games. A really weird combination and it did not quite jive for me. Plus the author was long winded to boot. Oh well. This was my first experience with the author and I don't feel like I am in any hurry to have another experience soon. I am glad to have read a new author, to see for myself, and visited another area on my reading around the world voyage.
24benitastrnad
Sunday afternoon roundup
Books read from: Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. 2 pages per day in Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty for a LT group read that is long over, but I started the book and now I need to finish it. Deleuze Connections by John Rajchman for a book discussion in the College of Education. My lunch book is now Ms. and the Material Girl by Catherine Gourley a YA nonfiction work that I have been trying to read for about 4 months. I am listening to and reading from the hardcopy of Good Lord Bird by James McBride for my real life book discussion group that met today.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Book Thoughts: Only three people showed up for the book discussion today and none of us had finished the book. I described Good Lord Bird as a vulgar irreverent look at the Abolitionist movement. One of the other people thought I was being generous. Even with all of that I am enjoying this book and will finish it today or tomorrow. I have less than 100 pages to read.
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: Indian buffet today at noon. I think I will do soup for supper tonight.
Nonbook activities:
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 267
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 729.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020
Books read from: Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. 2 pages per day in Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty for a LT group read that is long over, but I started the book and now I need to finish it. Deleuze Connections by John Rajchman for a book discussion in the College of Education. My lunch book is now Ms. and the Material Girl by Catherine Gourley a YA nonfiction work that I have been trying to read for about 4 months. I am listening to and reading from the hardcopy of Good Lord Bird by James McBride for my real life book discussion group that met today.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Book Thoughts: Only three people showed up for the book discussion today and none of us had finished the book. I described Good Lord Bird as a vulgar irreverent look at the Abolitionist movement. One of the other people thought I was being generous. Even with all of that I am enjoying this book and will finish it today or tomorrow. I have less than 100 pages to read.
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: Indian buffet today at noon. I think I will do soup for supper tonight.
Nonbook activities:
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 267
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 729.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020
25benitastrnad
>22 Carmenere:
October can't go on all year. If it did we would have to find a new name for the Boys of Summer!
October can't go on all year. If it did we would have to find a new name for the Boys of Summer!
26alcottacre
>22 Carmenere: That was one of those games that I wish we could have just declared a tie and picked it up today. It was such a great game! Congratulations to Cleveland. I hope they can knock off the Yankees - a team I have loathed my entire life, lol.
27Carmenere
>25 benitastrnad: ha! I'll have to think about that. One of my non-book activities for the read-a-thon.
28Carmenere
>26 alcottacre: I'm with you, Stasia! Fingers crossed things work out for The Guardians.
29Carmenere
Sunday update:
Books read from: The Turn of the Screw & The Dutch House
Books finished: The Turn of the Screw
Time reading: approximately 5 hours
Snacks: Carnation instant breakfast drink
Thoughts: The Boys of Summer remain because October will take over November and December, not all year. : )
Non-book activities: Watched the Browns game, currently watching padres vs Mets
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 13 hours
Books read from: The Turn of the Screw & The Dutch House
Books finished: The Turn of the Screw
Time reading: approximately 5 hours
Snacks: Carnation instant breakfast drink
Thoughts: The Boys of Summer remain because October will take over November and December, not all year. : )
Non-book activities: Watched the Browns game, currently watching padres vs Mets
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 13 hours
30alcottacre
Sunday Night Update:
Books read from: Fire Watch by Connie Willis, The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury, Tenth of December by George Saunders, Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette, The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill, When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman, His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet, and Patience and Fortitude by Nicholas Basbanes
Books finished: 2, The October Country: Stories and Agatha of Little Neon
Time reading: ~4.5 hours
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 10
Total time reading: ~13 hours
Books read from: Fire Watch by Connie Willis, The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury, Tenth of December by George Saunders, Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette, The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill, When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman, His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet, and Patience and Fortitude by Nicholas Basbanes
Books finished: 2, The October Country: Stories and Agatha of Little Neon
Time reading: ~4.5 hours
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 10
Total time reading: ~13 hours
31benitastrnad
>30 alcottacre:
I have Agatha of Little Neon on my TBR list. Our local library doesn't have it, but I thought it might make a good book to read over the Christmas break.
I have Agatha of Little Neon on my TBR list. Our local library doesn't have it, but I thought it might make a good book to read over the Christmas break.
32alcottacre
>31 benitastrnad: Yes, I could see reading it over the Christmas break, Benita. It is one of those stories in which not a lot happens, but I enjoyed the growth of Agatha throughout the book.
33susanna.fraser
Sunday was something of a dud of a reading day for me. I realized I wasn't especially enjoying my nonfiction read, but read two more stories in Robots vs. Fairies.
