Social Distancing Readathon #74 - August 13 - 15
Talk75 Books Challenge for 2021
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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
2. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
3. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
4. Chris (ChrisG1)
5. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
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. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
3. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
4. Chris (ChrisG1)
5. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
2benitastrnad
I will be participating.
5torontoc
I'll join in- I am reading Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
7cbl_tn
I am reading Blackout and need to read The Crowded Grave next as someone is waiting for the library ebook and I won't be able to renew it. From what I hear, though, I'll be wanting to immediately pick up All Clear.
8nrmay
Hi from Nancy, home again in Charlotte NC.
I'll be reading as always.
Currently it's The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.
Audio book is Mrs Pollifax, Unveiled.
I'll be reading as always.
Currently it's The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.
Audio book is Mrs Pollifax, Unveiled.
10elkiedee
>7 cbl_tn: If you do find you want to continue with Connie Willis rather than reading The Crowded Grave, can you not just "return" the ebook and reserve it again?
I have just started looking at how library ebooks work, because currently there are books I can borrow or reserve in that form that the library hasn't bought or ordered in print yet.
I went to the library and a couple of charity shops this afternoon and returned a few library books unread on the basis that I am going to rejoin the queue and wait till they come round again. Planety of reading to keep me going in the meantime!
I have just started looking at how library ebooks work, because currently there are books I can borrow or reserve in that form that the library hasn't bought or ordered in print yet.
I went to the library and a couple of charity shops this afternoon and returned a few library books unread on the basis that I am going to rejoin the queue and wait till they come round again. Planety of reading to keep me going in the meantime!
11cbl_tn
>10 elkiedee: The Crowded Grave is this month's mystery group read. I reserved it weeks ago so that it would be available to read now.
12AnneDC
Friday night
Books read from: 4 (The Subtle Knife, The Group, The Invention of Nature, Thick: And Other Essays
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 90 minutes plus 132 minutes listening
Pages read: 55
Time posting: 10 minutes
Snacks: scrambled eggs and tomatoes
Thoughts: I am struggling with a summer cold--not COVID, I got a test--but I forgot how miserable a run-of-the-mill ailment can make you feel
Non-book activities: walking the dog, a nap, dinner
Total books finished: 1 (The Subtle Knife
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 90 minutes plus 132 minutes listening
Pages read: 55
Books read from: 4 (The Subtle Knife, The Group, The Invention of Nature, Thick: And Other Essays
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 90 minutes plus 132 minutes listening
Pages read: 55
Time posting: 10 minutes
Snacks: scrambled eggs and tomatoes
Thoughts: I am struggling with a summer cold--not COVID, I got a test--but I forgot how miserable a run-of-the-mill ailment can make you feel
Non-book activities: walking the dog, a nap, dinner
Total books finished: 1 (The Subtle Knife
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 90 minutes plus 132 minutes listening
Pages read: 55
13cbl_tn
Friday night:
Books read from: Blackout
Books finished: Blackout
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: peanuts, iced tea
Thoughts: So much for reading plans. I will have to continue immediately with All Clear.
Non-book activities: Long walk, gardening, laundry
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: ?
Books read from: Blackout
Books finished: Blackout
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: peanuts, iced tea
Thoughts: So much for reading plans. I will have to continue immediately with All Clear.
Non-book activities: Long walk, gardening, laundry
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: ?
14benitastrnad
Friday night update
Books reading from: I am listening to Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd and really am not getting much out of this book. My current nonfiction book is Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee for the Nonfiction Challenge here on LT. The August topic is transportation. My current fiction and the book I am reading the most from is an old book - Mary Renault's Last of the Wine.
Books finished in the last week: Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Time reading today: 1 hour at lunch
Time posting: just started
Food: I had a very bad take-out grilled beef sandwich from Taziki's for supper tonight. It was to have had horseradish sauce on it and there wasn't any. The horseradish sauce was the whole reason I ordered it. I shouldn't have been surprised, as I am not a big fan of Taziki's on the best of days and this clearly wasn't the best of days for Taziki's.
Thoughts: Deadly Wandering was really good and Book of Longing is really bad. I am reading it for my real life book discussion group and I am NOT liking this one at all. Last of the Wine is so-so at this point, but I am only 100 pages in and it is good enough that I am going to give it more time.
Non-book activities: A little knitting and a little watching of old classic Julia Child cooking shows.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 150
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 410 hours since April 2020.
Books reading from: I am listening to Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd and really am not getting much out of this book. My current nonfiction book is Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee for the Nonfiction Challenge here on LT. The August topic is transportation. My current fiction and the book I am reading the most from is an old book - Mary Renault's Last of the Wine.
Books finished in the last week: Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Time reading today: 1 hour at lunch
Time posting: just started
Food: I had a very bad take-out grilled beef sandwich from Taziki's for supper tonight. It was to have had horseradish sauce on it and there wasn't any. The horseradish sauce was the whole reason I ordered it. I shouldn't have been surprised, as I am not a big fan of Taziki's on the best of days and this clearly wasn't the best of days for Taziki's.
Thoughts: Deadly Wandering was really good and Book of Longing is really bad. I am reading it for my real life book discussion group and I am NOT liking this one at all. Last of the Wine is so-so at this point, but I am only 100 pages in and it is good enough that I am going to give it more time.
Non-book activities: A little knitting and a little watching of old classic Julia Child cooking shows.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 150
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 410 hours since April 2020.
15PawsforThought
I’m going to try to join in this weekend. The weather gods have decided on thunder and rain this weekend so I’m comforting myself with extra reading.
I’ll be reading from Sweden as usual.
I’ll be focusing on making headway with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Death Comes as the End but I might sneak something else in too.
I’ll be reading from Sweden as usual.
I’ll be focusing on making headway with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Death Comes as the End but I might sneak something else in too.
16PawsforThought
Update from last night (Friday).
Books read from: 1 (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: Tea, cheese toast, apricot purée with milk.
Thoughts: I really don’t like thunder.
Non-book activities: Re-watching a couple of episodes of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, browsing auction and second hand shop sites.
Books read from: 1 (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: Tea, cheese toast, apricot purée with milk.
Thoughts: I really don’t like thunder.
Non-book activities: Re-watching a couple of episodes of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, browsing auction and second hand shop sites.
17torontoc
>14 benitastrnad: My real life book club loved The Book of Longings- sigh!
I read more from Unsheltered and.. the more I read the more I really like this book. It sort of grew on me. I also finished an issue of Granta 72.
I read more from Unsheltered and.. the more I read the more I really like this book. It sort of grew on me. I also finished an issue of Granta 72.
18nrmay
Saturday morning
Books: Picked up a new one last night; a library book that's in demand, plus it's short. Last thing he told me by Laura Dave.
I have several library books to finish in the next couple weeks.
breakfast: just coffee so far
other activity:
Started watching the old tv series The Survivors, based on the 1976 novel by Terry Nation. Starts off with a pandemic. It's scarier than the book, I suppose due to our current covid event.
Registering postcrossing cards that arrived while I was away.
FaceTime with granddaugters. I have some concern that they are going to a resort for vacation this week amid covid surge. And the 5-yr-old is due to start K the week after..
I got tickets for the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival in Ferrum, Virginia, and booked a cabin at Fairy Stone State Park for Oct. Hoping things will improve by late Oct.
weather:
Sunny, 88 F. (31 C.) just before noon. Predicted high of 91 F.
I think today is the last day in the 90s for a while. It's supposed to be in the 80s for the next 9 days.
Books: Picked up a new one last night; a library book that's in demand, plus it's short. Last thing he told me by Laura Dave.
I have several library books to finish in the next couple weeks.
breakfast: just coffee so far
other activity:
Started watching the old tv series The Survivors, based on the 1976 novel by Terry Nation. Starts off with a pandemic. It's scarier than the book, I suppose due to our current covid event.
Registering postcrossing cards that arrived while I was away.
FaceTime with granddaugters. I have some concern that they are going to a resort for vacation this week amid covid surge. And the 5-yr-old is due to start K the week after..
I got tickets for the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival in Ferrum, Virginia, and booked a cabin at Fairy Stone State Park for Oct. Hoping things will improve by late Oct.
weather:
Sunny, 88 F. (31 C.) just before noon. Predicted high of 91 F.
I think today is the last day in the 90s for a while. It's supposed to be in the 80s for the next 9 days.
19benitastrnad
>17 torontoc:
It is a strange thing about books for book clubs - somehow I think I should like every one of the books selected to be read. I think there is an assumption that if many people liked this one that I should like it too. I feel bad about not liking this one. The person who suggested it was SO enthusiastic about it and I really am finding it a chore to read. I am listening to it in the car and have a hardcopy of it as well. The reader of the recorded version is very good and I like her voice, so it definitely is the story that I am not liking. I like the parts about her living in Alexandria and about her life as a scribe living at that time, but I don't like the whole package. I wish that the author had told the story of Anna without all the other stuff in it. I am finding it more interesting that I feel so bad about not liking it. But for the fact that it is a book club selection I would have Pearl Ruled it long ago.
It is a strange thing about books for book clubs - somehow I think I should like every one of the books selected to be read. I think there is an assumption that if many people liked this one that I should like it too. I feel bad about not liking this one. The person who suggested it was SO enthusiastic about it and I really am finding it a chore to read. I am listening to it in the car and have a hardcopy of it as well. The reader of the recorded version is very good and I like her voice, so it definitely is the story that I am not liking. I like the parts about her living in Alexandria and about her life as a scribe living at that time, but I don't like the whole package. I wish that the author had told the story of Anna without all the other stuff in it. I am finding it more interesting that I feel so bad about not liking it. But for the fact that it is a book club selection I would have Pearl Ruled it long ago.
20benitastrnad
Saturday noon update
Books reading from: I am listening to Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd see the discussion above for my reaction to this one. My current nonfiction book is Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee for the Nonfiction Challenge here on LT. The August topic is transportation. My current fiction and the book I am reading the most from is an old book - Mary Renault's Last of the Wine.
Books finished in the last week: Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Time reading today: 1 hour at breakfast
Time posting: 1 hour
Food: I had a tomato sandwich for breakfast and will probably have leftovers for lunch. I need to go grocery shopping but want to clean out the refrigerator before I stock up. With all the students back in town getting groceries is going to be a chore for the next couple of weeks.
Thoughts: I read more in Last of the Wine and it is good enough to keep reading.
Non-book activities: A little knitting and a little watching of old classic Julia Child cooking shows.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 150
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 411 hours since April 2020.
Books reading from: I am listening to Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd see the discussion above for my reaction to this one. My current nonfiction book is Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee for the Nonfiction Challenge here on LT. The August topic is transportation. My current fiction and the book I am reading the most from is an old book - Mary Renault's Last of the Wine.
Books finished in the last week: Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Time reading today: 1 hour at breakfast
Time posting: 1 hour
Food: I had a tomato sandwich for breakfast and will probably have leftovers for lunch. I need to go grocery shopping but want to clean out the refrigerator before I stock up. With all the students back in town getting groceries is going to be a chore for the next couple of weeks.
Thoughts: I read more in Last of the Wine and it is good enough to keep reading.
Non-book activities: A little knitting and a little watching of old classic Julia Child cooking shows.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 150
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 411 hours since April 2020.
21elkiedee
9.15 pm Saturday
Books read from: 8
Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
Margery Sharp, The Eye of Love
Lee Horsley, Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction
Francis Spufford, Golden Hill
Tanya Pearson, Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Ruth Eastham, The Messenger Bird
Pages read: 136
These Book related activities: Friday afternoon trip to libraries - my local branch on the way to the bus stop, and a couple of charity shops. Returning some books, collecting some reservations, and I bought 6 books, though 2 are better copies of books I already owned
Non-book activities: Social media, Bejeweled Blitz, TV and radio, playing Nanci Griffith and other random songs that came up on Youtube via our TV, These included Nanci Griffith doing a duet with John Prine, who sadly died of COVID last year. (Speed of the Sound of Loneliness).
Total pages read: 136
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 8
Books read from: 8
Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
Margery Sharp, The Eye of Love
Lee Horsley, Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction
Francis Spufford, Golden Hill
Tanya Pearson, Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Ruth Eastham, The Messenger Bird
Pages read: 136
These Book related activities: Friday afternoon trip to libraries - my local branch on the way to the bus stop, and a couple of charity shops. Returning some books, collecting some reservations, and I bought 6 books, though 2 are better copies of books I already owned
Non-book activities: Social media, Bejeweled Blitz, TV and radio, playing Nanci Griffith and other random songs that came up on Youtube via our TV, These included Nanci Griffith doing a duet with John Prine, who sadly died of COVID last year. (Speed of the Sound of Loneliness).
Total pages read: 136
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 8
22AnneDC
Saturday 4 pm
Books read from: 5 (The Subtle Knife, The Group, The Invention of Nature, Thick: And Other Essays, Last Train to Paradise
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3 hours plus 32 minutes listening
Pages read: 146
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: falafal sandwich, lots of tea
Thoughts: Still under the weather and alternating between reading and dozing. It's less hot today.
Non-book activities: walking the dog, newspaper, farmer's market
Total books finished: 1 (The Subtle Knife)
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 4 hours 30 minutes plus 2 hours 44 minutes listening
Pages read: 201
Books read from: 5 (The Subtle Knife, The Group, The Invention of Nature, Thick: And Other Essays, Last Train to Paradise
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3 hours plus 32 minutes listening
Pages read: 146
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: falafal sandwich, lots of tea
Thoughts: Still under the weather and alternating between reading and dozing. It's less hot today.
Non-book activities: walking the dog, newspaper, farmer's market
Total books finished: 1 (The Subtle Knife)
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 4 hours 30 minutes plus 2 hours 44 minutes listening
Pages read: 201
23PawsforThought
Saturday night.
Books read from: 1 (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: Tea, apricot purée with milk, biscuit.
Non-book activities: Grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning.
Books read from: 1 (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: Tea, apricot purée with milk, biscuit.
Non-book activities: Grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning.
24cbl_tn
Saturday evening update:
Books read from: All Clear
Books finished: Blackout
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Dinner was 3-cheese quiche and black eyed peas (fresh from the farmer's market)
Thoughts: It's finally raining here!
Non-book activities: Farmer's market, grocery shopping, attended graduation, laundry, cooking, watched some episodes of Bergerac while I cooked
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?
Books read from: All Clear
Books finished: Blackout
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Dinner was 3-cheese quiche and black eyed peas (fresh from the farmer's market)
Thoughts: It's finally raining here!
Non-book activities: Farmer's market, grocery shopping, attended graduation, laundry, cooking, watched some episodes of Bergerac while I cooked
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?
25nrmay
Late night Saturday.
Going to bed to read awhile; continuing on with The last thing he told me.
dinner: hubby made vegetable beef soup from an old Farm Journal cookbook. Best ever and easy! Happy to share recipe if you PM me.
other activity: watched 2nd episode of British tv series THE SURVIVORS.
Weather: rain and thunderstorms cooled us off! Now clear and 72 F. just before midnight.
Going to bed to read awhile; continuing on with The last thing he told me.
dinner: hubby made vegetable beef soup from an old Farm Journal cookbook. Best ever and easy! Happy to share recipe if you PM me.
other activity: watched 2nd episode of British tv series THE SURVIVORS.
Weather: rain and thunderstorms cooled us off! Now clear and 72 F. just before midnight.
26elkiedee
6.30 am Sunday
Really a late evening update, as I finished this reading at about midnight
Books read from: 5
Ann Cleeves, The Long Call
Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
Margery Sharp, The Eye of Love
David Downing, Wedding Station
Pages read: 100
Books finished: 0
Non-book activities: Social media, Bejeweled Blitz, TV and radio
Total pages read: 236
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 10
Really a late evening update, as I finished this reading at about midnight
Books read from: 5
Ann Cleeves, The Long Call
Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
Margery Sharp, The Eye of Love
David Downing, Wedding Station
Pages read: 100
Books finished: 0
Non-book activities: Social media, Bejeweled Blitz, TV and radio
Total pages read: 236
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 10
27AnneDC
Update from Saturday night (no reading so far Sunday)
Books read from: 5 ( The Group, Thick: And Other Essays, Last Train to Paradise, A History of the World in Six Glasses)
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3 hours plus 59 minutes listening
Pages read: 122
Time posting: none
Dinner: corn on the cob and a tomato sandwich
Thoughts: There was a big storm last night, with flash flood warnings, and when we looked outside at 1 am, the street in front of our house looked like a river. This morning it looks like nothing happened.
Non-book activities: walking the dog, dinner, episode of the Crown
Total books finished: 1 (The Subtle Knife)
Total read from: 6 (The Subtle Knife, The Group, The Invention of Nature, Thick: And Other Essays, Last Train to Paradise, A History of the World in Six Glasses)
Total time reading: 7 hours 30 minutes plus 3 hours 43 minutes listening
Pages read: 323
Books read from: 5 ( The Group, Thick: And Other Essays, Last Train to Paradise, A History of the World in Six Glasses)
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3 hours plus 59 minutes listening
Pages read: 122
Time posting: none
Dinner: corn on the cob and a tomato sandwich
Thoughts: There was a big storm last night, with flash flood warnings, and when we looked outside at 1 am, the street in front of our house looked like a river. This morning it looks like nothing happened.
Non-book activities: walking the dog, dinner, episode of the Crown
Total books finished: 1 (The Subtle Knife)
Total read from: 6 (The Subtle Knife, The Group, The Invention of Nature, Thick: And Other Essays, Last Train to Paradise, A History of the World in Six Glasses)
Total time reading: 7 hours 30 minutes plus 3 hours 43 minutes listening
Pages read: 323
28cbl_tn
Sunday afternoon check-in:
Books read from: All Clear
Books finished: Blackout
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch was leftover quiche and black eyed peas, with a mint chocolate chip cookie and a piece of chocolate fudge for dessert
Thoughts: I would love to finish All Clear today if I can, but it's probably not possible. I know I won't want to go to work tomorrow.
Non-book activities: Church
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?
Books read from: All Clear
Books finished: Blackout
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch was leftover quiche and black eyed peas, with a mint chocolate chip cookie and a piece of chocolate fudge for dessert
Thoughts: I would love to finish All Clear today if I can, but it's probably not possible. I know I won't want to go to work tomorrow.
Non-book activities: Church
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?
29torontoc
almost finished Unsheltered- it is really good.
Saw a webinar on French Music Posters from the 19th and early 20th century.
Saw a webinar on French Music Posters from the 19th and early 20th century.
30elkiedee
7.50 pm Sunday
Books read from: 11
Ann Cleeves, The Heron's Call
Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
Margery Sharp, The Eye of Love
David Downing, Wedding Station
Sinead Gleeson (editor), The Long Gaze Back
Lee Horsley, Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction
Tanya Pearson, Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
Francis Spufford, Golden Hill
Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Ruth Eastham, The Messenger Bird
Pages read: 238
Non-book activities: Social media, Bejeweled Blitz, TV and radio. writing a few online reviews (not yet of books though)
Thoughts: I am very close to the end of The Other Black Girl. I don't think this is a masterpiece but have really enjoyed reading it.
Total pages read: 474
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 11
Books read from: 11
Ann Cleeves, The Heron's Call
Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
Margery Sharp, The Eye of Love
David Downing, Wedding Station
Sinead Gleeson (editor), The Long Gaze Back
Lee Horsley, Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction
Tanya Pearson, Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
Francis Spufford, Golden Hill
Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Ruth Eastham, The Messenger Bird
Pages read: 238
Non-book activities: Social media, Bejeweled Blitz, TV and radio. writing a few online reviews (not yet of books though)
Thoughts: I am very close to the end of The Other Black Girl. I don't think this is a masterpiece but have really enjoyed reading it.
Total pages read: 474
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 11
31cbl_tn
So, I noticed a reference in Blackout to a historical event called the Pandemic. I wondered what pandemic it was supposed to be. It's further identified in All Clear as having taken place 20 years after the second World Trade Center bombing. Which was twenty years ago next month. Both Blackout and All Clear were published in 2010.
32benitastrnad
Sunday afternoon update
Books reading from: I am listening to Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. My current nonfiction book is Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee for the Nonfiction Challenge here on LT. The August topic is transportation. My current fiction and the book I am reading the most from is an old book - Mary Renault's Last of the Wine.
Books finished in the last week: Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Time reading today: 1 hour at breakfast and 1 hour over lunch
Time posting: 1 hour
Food: I had take out Indian food for lunch.
Thoughts: I am about half done with Last of the Wine and find that I keep having to look things up in Wikipedia about the Peloponnesian War. My knowledge of Ancient Greek history is sadly lacking and reading this book is allowing me that see that shortcoming almost every time I open this book. This book is what I would call elegant prose and the style of writing is anachronistic. That makes it one of those works of fiction that demands some study and concentration. My book discussion group met on Zoom this afternoon and my hotspot has definitely failed. I got on but couldn't stay on. Finally the connections stabilized but by then the others were 45 minutes into the discussion. After this I will have to go to the University or somewhere with stronger connections to do the Zoom meeting.
Non-book activities: I am going to start mixing up my homemade granola.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 150
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 413 hours since April 2020.
Books reading from: I am listening to Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. My current nonfiction book is Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee for the Nonfiction Challenge here on LT. The August topic is transportation. My current fiction and the book I am reading the most from is an old book - Mary Renault's Last of the Wine.
Books finished in the last week: Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Time reading today: 1 hour at breakfast and 1 hour over lunch
Time posting: 1 hour
Food: I had take out Indian food for lunch.
Thoughts: I am about half done with Last of the Wine and find that I keep having to look things up in Wikipedia about the Peloponnesian War. My knowledge of Ancient Greek history is sadly lacking and reading this book is allowing me that see that shortcoming almost every time I open this book. This book is what I would call elegant prose and the style of writing is anachronistic. That makes it one of those works of fiction that demands some study and concentration. My book discussion group met on Zoom this afternoon and my hotspot has definitely failed. I got on but couldn't stay on. Finally the connections stabilized but by then the others were 45 minutes into the discussion. After this I will have to go to the University or somewhere with stronger connections to do the Zoom meeting.
Non-book activities: I am going to start mixing up my homemade granola.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 150
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 413 hours since April 2020.
33ChrisG1
Sunday afternoon update:
Books read from: Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart, Fables of La Fontaine, and Kingdom Conspiracy by Scot Mcknight.
Began Bridge of Birds on Friday and completed it today - quite a fanciful bit of work. Chinese alt-history/mythology?
Non-book activities: Sang at an arts festival with my barbershop quartet, watched Detroit Tigers baseball game.
Total pages read: 373
Books read from: Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart, Fables of La Fontaine, and Kingdom Conspiracy by Scot Mcknight.
Began Bridge of Birds on Friday and completed it today - quite a fanciful bit of work. Chinese alt-history/mythology?
Non-book activities: Sang at an arts festival with my barbershop quartet, watched Detroit Tigers baseball game.
Total pages read: 373
34torontoc
I finished Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver-excellent! I am now reading Whale Music by the late Paul Quarrington-a noted Canadian writer and musician.
35nrmay
Sunday evening
Books: Half-way through Last thing he told me, which I noticed today is top of the NYT bestseller list.
Dinner: cheese, crackers, soup, watermelon and Crawford's Garibaldi biscuits that my sis ordered for a special treat.
weather: currently, rain and thunder, 75 F. (24 C.) at 7:30p
Books: Half-way through Last thing he told me, which I noticed today is top of the NYT bestseller list.
Dinner: cheese, crackers, soup, watermelon and Crawford's Garibaldi biscuits that my sis ordered for a special treat.
weather: currently, rain and thunder, 75 F. (24 C.) at 7:30p
37elkiedee
Sunday evening/night
Books read from: 5
Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl - FINISHED 16.08.21
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
Margery Sharp, The Eye of Love
David Downing, Wedding Station
Sinead Gleeson (editor), The Long Gaze Back
Lee Horsley, Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction
Pages read: 46
Book related: LT/Goodreads updates
Non-book activities: Social media, Bejeweled Blitz, TV and radio
Total pages read: 520
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 11
Books read from: 5
Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl - FINISHED 16.08.21
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom
Margery Sharp, The Eye of Love
David Downing, Wedding Station
Sinead Gleeson (editor), The Long Gaze Back
Lee Horsley, Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction
Pages read: 46
Book related: LT/Goodreads updates
Non-book activities: Social media, Bejeweled Blitz, TV and radio
Total pages read: 520
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 11
38PawsforThought
Monday morning, reporting for Sunday.
Books read from: 1 (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: Sandwich, hot chocolate.
Non-book activities: Cooking, laundry, online window shopping.
Didn’t get much reading done, but that’s how it usually is for me during readathon, despite perfect reading weather (raining all weekend with bouts of thunder). Oh, well. I did make *some* headway with my biggest book.
Books read from: 1 (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: Sandwich, hot chocolate.
Non-book activities: Cooking, laundry, online window shopping.
Didn’t get much reading done, but that’s how it usually is for me during readathon, despite perfect reading weather (raining all weekend with bouts of thunder). Oh, well. I did make *some* headway with my biggest book.
39PaulCranswick
I was sort of participating this weekend, Silver, but got sidetracked listening to Nanci Griffith songs and videos with a handkerchief beside me as well as watching my football (soccer) team get annihilated in the opening English league fixture.
I have been enjoying the company very much of both Maggie O'Farrell and Sylvia Townsend Warner these couple of days but haven't quite finished either.
I have been enjoying the company very much of both Maggie O'Farrell and Sylvia Townsend Warner these couple of days but haven't quite finished either.
40elkiedee
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who spent a little time watching/listening to Nanci Gfiffith. I have a lot of her albums on CD but nothing to play them on at the moment, and my laptop's internal speakers offer really poor sound quality, but I've discovered that our cable TV service offers an option to use Youtube on the TV screen quite easily.
Which football team was that, Paul?
Which football team was that, Paul?
41AnneDC
Final update from Sunday
Books read from: 5 (The Group, Thick: And Other Essays, The Invention of Nature, A History of the World in Six Glasses)
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3 hours plus 91 minutes listening
Pages read: 153
Time posting: none
Dinner: corn on the cob and Indonesian chicken curry
Thoughts: This is my daughter's last weekend before we take her to college, and she is so busy I never see her. I think the empty nest has already happened in some ways.
Non-book activities: brunch out, New York Times, walking the dog, preparing for trip to California this week, Ted Lasso
Total books finished: 2 (The Subtle Knife, Thick: And Other Essays) (Why do I only finish audiobooks?)
Total read from: 6 (The Subtle Knife, The Group, The Invention of Nature, Thick: And Other Essays, Last Train to Paradise, A History of the World in Six Glasses)
Total time reading: 10 hours 30 minutes plus 5 hours 14 minutes listening
Pages read: 476
Books read from: 5 (The Group, Thick: And Other Essays, The Invention of Nature, A History of the World in Six Glasses)
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3 hours plus 91 minutes listening
Pages read: 153
Time posting: none
Dinner: corn on the cob and Indonesian chicken curry
Thoughts: This is my daughter's last weekend before we take her to college, and she is so busy I never see her. I think the empty nest has already happened in some ways.
Non-book activities: brunch out, New York Times, walking the dog, preparing for trip to California this week, Ted Lasso
Total books finished: 2 (The Subtle Knife, Thick: And Other Essays) (Why do I only finish audiobooks?)
Total read from: 6 (The Subtle Knife, The Group, The Invention of Nature, Thick: And Other Essays, Last Train to Paradise, A History of the World in Six Glasses)
Total time reading: 10 hours 30 minutes plus 5 hours 14 minutes listening
Pages read: 476
