Social Distancing Readathon #79 - September 17 - 19

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

I'm back in this time, hoping to get back up to speed on my reading after a rather tumultuous week and a half where I couldn't really focus.

Fri 4pm Auckland, NZ

I'm still living under complete lockdown so will join in. I've been busy baking this morning and now feel wiped out.
Have a number of books on the go, but need to start focusing on library books again. We'll see how I go:
Three envelopes by Nir Hezroni
The driftway by Penelope Lively
Dodgers by Bill Beverly

Will be joining in.

I will join again. I'd like to make significant progress on and maybe finish a couple of books this weekend - Basilica and Decider. I'm also reading Salem Chapel at a slower pace for a group read.

I'll join in- it is the last weekend of the film festival but I am still reading as well.

I'm in.

Hoping to finish The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman and
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee.

Cloudy, 73 F. (24 C.) in Charlotte NC at noon.

Once again, you can count me in. I want to finish Harlem Shuffle. I love love love Whitehead and so far this one is no exception.

>8 Carmenere: I'm just about to start Harlem Shuffle!

I'll be back. Long list of possibilities, but I plan to finish What Just Happened by Charles Finch first. So far, it's the most compelling yarn about the pandemic that i've encountered.

I had to abruptly quit reading last weekend but I'll try again this weekend. I have about 15 pages to go in The Innocents Abroad so hope to start the weekend by finishing a book.

>9 elkiedee: Yay!!

Well, it kinda seems suitable to start our 79th Social Distancing Readathon by finishing a book about, well, social distancing. And the pandemic, and George Floyd, and the election, and a bit about climate change. And about the Beatles, art, pot smoking and friendship.

Books read from: What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year by Charles Finch, and Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday
Books finished: What Just Happened
Time reading: 3 hours??
Time posting: none

Snacks: Ordered a hamburger and (horrors) a milkshake for dinner.
Thoughts: Where has my brain gone?
Non-book activities: Talked to the tree guy that my landlady consulted about Octavius the Giant Oak Tree out in the yard. He says Octavius is VERY healthy and at least 200 years old. I love that tree. Oh, and I wrapped up edits on a chunk of a boring white paper and will do more tomorrow.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hours

I seem to be on a non-fiction kick.

I'm in again. Currently reading Bring Up the Bodies by Hillary Martel & Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.

Friday 11:30 pm

Books read from:
The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
My Darling Detective - Howard Norman

Books finished: 1. The Innocents Abroad was for my virtual book group, which met last night. I didn't quite finish it in time, but got close, and was able to finish the last 10 pages tonight.
Time reading: 1 hour plus 21 minutes listening
Pages read: 77
Dinner: Burgers and corn on the grill
Thoughts: So happy for the weekend!
Non-book activities: Work, dinner with a friend, Ted Lasso

Total books finished: 1 (The Innocents Abroad
Total read from: 2
The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
My Darling Detective - Howard Norman
Total time reading: 1 hour plus 21 minutes listening
Total pages read: 77

Friday 9:30 PM

Books read from: Vessel
Books finished: Vessel
Time reading: 4 hours
Food: Fried chicken for dinner
Thoughts: I haven't read a book essentially in one sitting like this for ages.
Non-book activities: Work, laundry

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 4 hours

Update for Friday at 7:44am Saturday

Books read from: Harlem Shuffle
Books finished:
Time reading: an hour or two
Food: pizza and salad
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: watched YouTube and baseball

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

Saturday 1.30 pm

Books read from: 6
Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle - STARTED 17.09.21
Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
Michelle Magorian, Back Home
Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
Andrea Levy, Six Stories and an Essay
Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

Pages read: 133
Books finished: 0
Non-book activities: Social Media, Bejeweled Blitz and WhatsApp, Radio and TV, Have realised I need to revamp some of my social media profiles.

Total pages read: 133
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 6

Saturday morning update:

Books read from: Salem Chapel, Basilica
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Breakfast is peanut butter cookies & tea
Thoughts: I am happy to have cooler weather!
Non-book activities: Sleep, farmer's market

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?

Sunday morning: 9am

Been reading from:
Three envelopes by Nir Hezroni
The driftway by Penelope Lively
Wynter's Thief by Sherryl Jordan
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
Books finished: 0
Snacks: slow cooker chicken tortilla soup, orange almond cake.
Coffee this morning and will soon be toasted challah
Thoughts: 5 weeks of severe lockdown is wearing us all down
Non book activities: food prep, weeding, watching tv.

We watched a couple of Israeli films on dvd, Kazablan, a musical from the 1970s, very fun, I've seen this multiple times over the years.
'The Ballad of the Weeping Spring' - love this one too, also watched it a few times.

I saw two films ( on my computer) today from the film festival and finished one really funny book-Batchelor Brothers Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book - highly recommended if you need to laugh out loud.
Dinner- left over baked chicken and potatoes, and sliced red peppers.

Saturday update 9:25 PM

Books read from: Harlem Shuffle
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour
Food: Sloppy joes and onion rings
Thoughts: I've got to take it easy tomorrow
Non-book activities: Laundry, finished the construction of a fireplace, youtube, Cleaned rooms

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 3 hours

>21 torontoc:
I read Batchelor Brothers Bed & Breakfast years ago. I had forgotten all about it. It was funny.
And you must be talking about the Toronto International Film Festival.
It's so great. I got to go a couple times. Love it!

Books:
Finished The Lost Wife, a historical novel about the Holocaust. Horrifying and heartbreaking.

Dinner:
fish, vegetables, watermelon, 2 small cookies.

Other activity:
family members came to visit
Watched a movie - "The Courier" with Benedict Cumberbatch; spy story based on true events.

Saturday 11:30 pm

Books read from:
My Darling Detective - Howard Norman
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
All for Nothing - Walter Kempowski
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman

Books finished: 1 My Darling Detective
Time reading: 2 hours plus 18 minutes listening
Pages read: 113 plus 1 chapter of audiobook
Dinner: Italian sausage, potatoes and red peppers
Thoughts: Where did the day go?
Non-book activities: Farmer's market, return library books, many phone calls (sister, brother, stepfather), television, arument with my husband

Total books finished: 2 (The Innocents Abroad, My Darling Detective
Total read from: 5
The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
My Darling Detective - Howard Norman
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
All for Nothing - Walter Kempowski
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman

Total time reading: 3 hours plus 39 minutes listening
Total pages read: 190 plus 1 chapter of audiobook

Sunday morning (it's now just after midday but I am going to update again later and include this morning's reading from Harlem Shuffle at that point.

Books read from: 10
Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
Michelle Magorian, Back Home
Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
Andrea Levy, Six Stories and an Essay
Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
Rebecca Pawel, Law of Return
Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
Christopher Duggan, Fascist Voices
Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading
Frances Brody, A Snapshot of Murder

Pages read: 160
Books finished: 0
Non-book activities: Social Media, Bejeweled Blitz and WhatsApp, Radio and TV, Have realised I need to revamp some of my social media profiles.

Total pages read: 293
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 11

Sunday morning update:

Books read from: Winesburg Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson. Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel. Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology by Thomas Oden.

Pages read: 240
Non-book activities: Watched college football, attended church business meeting. Family gathering for my coming birthday (Tuesday) this afternoon.

Sunday, early afternoon

Books:
Just 60 pages in and totally engossed by One Minute Out, in the Gray Man series. These are nonstop action start to finish. Complete escapism!
Still listening to The Downstairs Girl during my evening walks.

breakfast: shredded wheat, toast, coffee

Other activity:
Sunday papers, puzzles
telephone chat with my sister

beautiful weather - sunny, 86 F. (30 C.)

Sunday midday:

Books read from: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Books finished: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Time reading: 1 hour
Food: cereal for breakfast
Thoughts: That was lovely but sad.
Non-book activities: Yesterday was all about errands, writing, and watching football.

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

Monday morning: 8.30am

Been reading from:
King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett - audio
Wynter's Thief by Sherryl Jordan
Dodgers by Bill Beverly
Books finished: 1 Wynter's Thief
Snacks: saag paneer, coffee
Thoughts: lovely spring morning, will get out into garden today
Non book activities: food prep, listening to jazz, watching tv.
Total books finished: 1 Wynter's Thief

We learn this afternoon if our lockdown level goes down, change would mean we can finally get takeout food and coffee.

Sunday 11.20 pm

Books read from: 6
Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle
Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
Michelle Magorian, Back Home
Patricia Engel, Infinite Country
Andrea Levy, Six Stories and an Essay
Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

Pages read: 209
Books finished: 0
Non-book activities: Social Media, Bejeweled Blitz and WhatsApp, Radio and TV, Have realised I need to revamp some of my social media profiles.

Total pages read: 502
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 11

Sunday night update

Books reading from: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt and Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I am listening to Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith

Books finished in the last week: Devil's Cave by Martin Walker, Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi, An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten

Time reading: 3 hours today.
Time posting:
Food: Had take out Indian food today.
Thoughts: Not having a computer at home and having knee problems is really been good for my reading time. I finished lots of books and got bunches read in others that I have had going for a long time.

Non-book activities: real life- book discussion tonight and will watch the first segment of the Mohammed Ali show on PBS.

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 160
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 432 hours since April 2020.

Sunday 9:25PM

Books read from: Harlem Shuffle
Unwinding Anxiety
Books finished:
Time reading: about an hour
Food: Chili
Thoughts: Too much doddeling and not enough reading
Non-book activities: Library, bible study, watched Cleveland Browns football

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: approx 4 hours

Sunday evening update:

Books read from: Decider
Books finished:
Time reading:
Time posting:
Snacks: watermelon, carrots, & tea
Thoughts: Where did the weekend go?
Non-book activities: Church, nap, met a friend for ice cream

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading:

Sunday evening:

Books read from: Craft in the Real World
Books finished: none
Time reading: 1 hour
Food: barbecue for dinner
Thoughts: I managed a semi-relaxing weekend, which I needed.
Non-book activities: Watched the Seahawks game. Between the Seahawks and Auburn, this was NOT a good football weekend for me.

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 6 hours

Although I did read a few pages before midnight, I'm not going to add to my readathon figures, just to say that I finished reading The Great Believers very late last night - and read a few more pages of Infinite Country.

Monday morning final summary:

Books read from: Winesburg, Ohio, Bring Up the Bodies, and Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology
Books completed: Winesburg, Ohio and Bring Up the Bodies
Total pages read: 360

Non-reading activities - my son had us over for my "birthday dinner" (bday is Tuesday) - pot roast. They let me win at cards.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/335478