Social Distancing Readthon #23 - August 21 - 23
Talk75 Books Challenge for 2020
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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.
My family grows a market garden, and we're soon going to start planting for the fall and winter. I was wondering if you guys have any suggestions of what vegetables we could grow. If you were buying fresh veggies what would 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
2. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
3. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
4. Kerry (avatiakh) -- Auckland, New Zealand
5. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, 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.
My family grows a market garden, and we're soon going to start planting for the fall and winter. I was wondering if you guys have any suggestions of what vegetables we could grow. If you were buying fresh veggies what would 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
2. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
3. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
4. Kerry (avatiakh) -- Auckland, New Zealand
5. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
2benitastrnad
I am in for next week. I won't get as much reading done because I will have a writing day for my journal article, but I will do some reading. Might as well track it.
4avatiakh
I'm in and will be starting in a a few hours time. Sunday I have a couple of zoom presentations to attend, so will continue updating my reading through Monday.
Will be continuing to read Caging Skies by Christine Leunens & The story of the last thought by Edgar Hilsenrath and be looking around for a lighter read to balance these two out.
Will be continuing to read Caging Skies by Christine Leunens & The story of the last thought by Edgar Hilsenrath and be looking around for a lighter read to balance these two out.
5nrmay
Count me in!
I visit my open air market often.
I buy lots of tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, parsley, carrots, melons, berries and peaches. I also like radishes and yellow summer squash . . but not zucchini!
I visit my open air market often.
I buy lots of tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, parsley, carrots, melons, berries and peaches. I also like radishes and yellow summer squash . . but not zucchini!
6avatiakh
Check in: Saturday morning 7.30am
Books read from: Letters to the lost by Brigid Kemmerer
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1.5hr
Snacks: too early
Thoughts: feeling down
Non-book activities:sleeping, messaging daughter who lives in London
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 1.5hrs
There seems to be a few people wanting this e-book from the library so I'll be trying to get it done asap though have other books I want to keep reading as well.
Books read from: Letters to the lost by Brigid Kemmerer
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1.5hr
Snacks: too early
Thoughts: feeling down
Non-book activities:sleeping, messaging daughter who lives in London
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 1.5hrs
There seems to be a few people wanting this e-book from the library so I'll be trying to get it done asap though have other books I want to keep reading as well.
7torontoc
7:19 on Friday
Just had supper- veg takeout from the Thai restaurant- tofu, more veg but they forgot to include the peanut sauce!
Reading The Yellow House by Sarah Broom
Just had supper- veg takeout from the Thai restaurant- tofu, more veg but they forgot to include the peanut sauce!
Reading The Yellow House by Sarah Broom
8benitastrnad
I see our reading ranks are thinning out. Oh well! It is up to us faithful few to keep the lamps lit beside the shining water of our imagination. I will be spending the rest of the day adding to the academic worlds tally of written words in hopes of meeting my publication goal and therefore a pay raise - if they diene to dole out one next year.
Books read from: this week Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine, Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinken, Library Book by Susan Orlean. Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden, Gidgets and Women Warriors by Catherine Gourley, Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon and Young Elites by Marie Lu
Books finished:Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinken and Sugar by Bernice McFadden. The first is a middle grades work of nonfiction that I listened to in the car and read so that I would know a bit about Sheinken's writing. This one was for work. I fell in love with Sugar! This was my first full5 star novel of the year. Amazing work of fiction. I immediately requested the sequel from our ILL department and can't wait for it to get here.
Time reading on Friday: 1.5 hours
Time posting:
Snacks: normal day, but had take out Japanese food with my girl buddies last night.
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: Stayed up and talked with the girl buddies until 11:00 p.m. last night. We dissected the current Covid crisis and the state of the university.
Total books finished since Read-A-Thon began: 51
Total read from: 56
Total time reading: 125.5 hours
Books read from: this week Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine, Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinken, Library Book by Susan Orlean. Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden, Gidgets and Women Warriors by Catherine Gourley, Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon and Young Elites by Marie Lu
Books finished:Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinken and Sugar by Bernice McFadden. The first is a middle grades work of nonfiction that I listened to in the car and read so that I would know a bit about Sheinken's writing. This one was for work. I fell in love with Sugar! This was my first full5 star novel of the year. Amazing work of fiction. I immediately requested the sequel from our ILL department and can't wait for it to get here.
Time reading on Friday: 1.5 hours
Time posting:
Snacks: normal day, but had take out Japanese food with my girl buddies last night.
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: Stayed up and talked with the girl buddies until 11:00 p.m. last night. We dissected the current Covid crisis and the state of the university.
Total books finished since Read-A-Thon began: 51
Total read from: 56
Total time reading: 125.5 hours
10nrmay
Saturday, early afternoon.
Books: the changeover by Margaret Mahy, won the British Carnegie Award. About done with bookish life of Nina Hill.
Food: I too had Asian takeout last night! Vietnamese for me.
breakfast was cheerios and raspberries; burger for lunch.
other activity: After being at home since mid-March to avoid COVID, I am getting ready to go to the beach for a week. I'm staying at Nags Head on the N.C. Outer Banks, next to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Taking lots of books . .
Books: the changeover by Margaret Mahy, won the British Carnegie Award. About done with bookish life of Nina Hill.
Food: I too had Asian takeout last night! Vietnamese for me.
breakfast was cheerios and raspberries; burger for lunch.
other activity: After being at home since mid-March to avoid COVID, I am getting ready to go to the beach for a week. I'm staying at Nags Head on the N.C. Outer Banks, next to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Taking lots of books . .
11torontoc
Sunday " wash the towels day"
Lunch- omelette, bagel with cream cheese with chives and lox- later- ice tea
I am still reading The Yellow House by Sarah Broom and enjoying the memoir. We had a heat warning in Toronto-really hot -feeling like 40 C so i am staying inside.
Late afternoon or early evening I will water my two new plants and roses
Lunch- omelette, bagel with cream cheese with chives and lox- later- ice tea
I am still reading The Yellow House by Sarah Broom and enjoying the memoir. We had a heat warning in Toronto-really hot -feeling like 40 C so i am staying inside.
Late afternoon or early evening I will water my two new plants and roses
12benitastrnad
Books read from: this weekend - I read chunk of Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine, a chapter or two from Library Book by Susan Orlean while sitting outside yesterday morning and before I went to bed last night. Read a bit from Gidgets and Women Warriors by Catherine Gourley over a quick lunch today, non from Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon. I listened to a bunch of the melodramatic YA novel Young Elites by Marie Lu while driving to and from Birmingham yesterday.
Books finished:none
Time reading on Saturday: 3.5 hours
Time posting:
Snacks: ate supper with my writing partner and her family. we had grilled shrimp and jalapeño poppers from peppers grown in their small Covid garden. They had never had a garden prior to this year but her husband and their three girls planted a small garden of tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers this spring. They have had some return on the investment, but they are still learning.
Thoughts: We wrote 6 pages (double spaced so not really that much) on the paper and worked on some of the charts we intend to include. It was a productive afternoon. Now I just need to keep up the pace.
Non-book activities: talking on the phone with my sisters. That took 2 hours out of my weekend.
Total books finished since Read-A-Thon began: 51
Total read from: 56
Total time reading: 129 hours
Books finished:none
Time reading on Saturday: 3.5 hours
Time posting:
Snacks: ate supper with my writing partner and her family. we had grilled shrimp and jalapeño poppers from peppers grown in their small Covid garden. They had never had a garden prior to this year but her husband and their three girls planted a small garden of tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers this spring. They have had some return on the investment, but they are still learning.
Thoughts: We wrote 6 pages (double spaced so not really that much) on the paper and worked on some of the charts we intend to include. It was a productive afternoon. Now I just need to keep up the pace.
Non-book activities: talking on the phone with my sisters. That took 2 hours out of my weekend.
Total books finished since Read-A-Thon began: 51
Total read from: 56
Total time reading: 129 hours
13torontoc
Still reading! almost finished The Yellow House
14benitastrnad
Books read from: this weekend - Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine, another chapter from Library Book by Susan Orlean just before I went to get groceries this evening. Read a little from Gidgets and Women Warriors by Catherine Gourley and none from Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon. I listened to more of the melodramatic YA novel Young Elites by Marie Lu while driving around town today and should finish that book this week.
Books finished:none
Time reading on Sunday: 1.5 hours
Time posting:
Snacks: went to the Chinese buffet to eat lunch and read. Read about 30 pages in Visual Thinking Strategies.
Thoughts: Looks like UA will be closing down sooner rather than later. Students have been back a week and the Covid numbers are rising fast. Of course, that means that they didn't contract it here, but still if it gets to high the university will close down for the semester.
Non-book activities: talking on the phone. That is taking way too much time.
Total books finished since Read-A-Thon began: 51
Total read from: 56
Total time reading: 130.5 hours
Books finished:none
Time reading on Sunday: 1.5 hours
Time posting:
Snacks: went to the Chinese buffet to eat lunch and read. Read about 30 pages in Visual Thinking Strategies.
Thoughts: Looks like UA will be closing down sooner rather than later. Students have been back a week and the Covid numbers are rising fast. Of course, that means that they didn't contract it here, but still if it gets to high the university will close down for the semester.
Non-book activities: talking on the phone. That is taking way too much time.
Total books finished since Read-A-Thon began: 51
Total read from: 56
Total time reading: 130.5 hours
15avatiakh
Check in: Tuesday morning 8.00am
Books read from: Letters to the lost by Brigid Kemmerer
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2.5hr
Snacks: coffee
Thoughts: feel good read
Non-book activities:sleeping, genealogy meetings & research, watching third season of Janet King.
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 4 hrs
My reading fell apart over the weekend and then after a genealogy meeting I just wanted to dive in and do some family research.
Letters to the lost is a good YA dealing with tough subjects in an interesting way. I started it picturing the characters in a UK setting near London and even though it's soon clear the book is set in Maryland I just couldn't shake that UK setting, not that it matters.
Our lockdown continues through Sunday and the goes down one level.
Books read from: Letters to the lost by Brigid Kemmerer
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2.5hr
Snacks: coffee
Thoughts: feel good read
Non-book activities:sleeping, genealogy meetings & research, watching third season of Janet King.
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 4 hrs
My reading fell apart over the weekend and then after a genealogy meeting I just wanted to dive in and do some family research.
Letters to the lost is a good YA dealing with tough subjects in an interesting way. I started it picturing the characters in a UK setting near London and even though it's soon clear the book is set in Maryland I just couldn't shake that UK setting, not that it matters.
Our lockdown continues through Sunday and the goes down one level.
16benitastrnad
Books read from: this weekend - Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine, another chapter from Library Book by Susan Orlean just before I went to get groceries this evening. Read a little from Gidgets and Women Warriors by Catherine Gourley and none from Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon.
Books finished: I finished listening to Young Elites by Marie Lu. This is not Lu at her best. This is a book that is the first in a series and is not one that I would recommend unless you just love dystopian young adult literature. It is the first in a series and so don't read it unless you love young adult dystopian series. I don't think this will be high on my list of series to finish reading.
Time reading on Sunday: 1.5 hours
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts: see above
Non-book activities:
Total books finished since Read-A-Thon began: 52
Total read from: 56
Total time reading: 130.5 hours
Books finished: I finished listening to Young Elites by Marie Lu. This is not Lu at her best. This is a book that is the first in a series and is not one that I would recommend unless you just love dystopian young adult literature. It is the first in a series and so don't read it unless you love young adult dystopian series. I don't think this will be high on my list of series to finish reading.
Time reading on Sunday: 1.5 hours
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts: see above
Non-book activities:
Total books finished since Read-A-Thon began: 52
Total read from: 56
Total time reading: 130.5 hours
17EmmaFleming01
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18SilverWolf28
>5 nrmay: Thank you!
19torontoc
I finished The Yellow House and got a lot of reading time during the weekend.
