Social Distancing Readathon #125 - August 5 - 7
Talk75 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
2PawsforThought
I’m in. This is the last weekend before I have to return to work and the plan is to get a number of errands done, pick some blueberries, hike a bit and read a lot.
3cbl_tn
I'm in this weekend. I need to do some cleaning since I haven't had time to do much for the last several weekends, but other than that my schedule is fairly open. I will have a funeral to attend sometime in the next few days. I'm still waiting to hear about the arrangements.
4Carmenere
I am so in! It's time to finish another library book club book before Monday's meetup. I'll be reading The Operator and listening to The Children on the Hill.
5elkiedee
I am going "away" for a week tomorrow through next week but am taking the laptop and may drop in to. I hope to read but it may be a few days until I finish a book and then I might finish reading more than one. I'm going to stay in Deal, a small town on the Kent south coast which is, with neighbours like Whitstable, Broadstairs, Folkestone, attracting increasing numbers of people to try life outside London. It was at the centre of the Kent mining area which has also attracted migration from other mining areas like South Wales and South and West Yorkshire.
6alcottacre
I will try and sneak in as much reading as I can this weekend!
7nrmay
I'm in.
I was planning on going camping with my nieces and nephew but it's looking like rain in the mountains . .
We are having a thunderstorm at this moment here in Charlotte. We may pick another weekend to camp.
I pitched my tent in the back yard today just to be sure I could do it entirely by myself!
I was planning on going camping with my nieces and nephew but it's looking like rain in the mountains . .
We are having a thunderstorm at this moment here in Charlotte. We may pick another weekend to camp.
I pitched my tent in the back yard today just to be sure I could do it entirely by myself!
8torontoc
I'm in- I am finishing Last Call at The Hotel Imperial The Reporters Who Took On A World at War.
9susanna.fraser
I'm in. I want to finish Making Numbers Count and start The Rise and Reign of the Mammals and/or I Kissed Shara Wheeler.
10fuzzi
My sister and her hubby have gone home, so I'm going to give this a go!
Currently reading The Kif Strike Back by CJ Cherryh, a favorite reread because I NEED A REREAD RIGHT NOW! ;)
I should finish it over the weekend, and maybe read something else?
Currently reading The Kif Strike Back by CJ Cherryh, a favorite reread because I NEED A REREAD RIGHT NOW! ;)
I should finish it over the weekend, and maybe read something else?
11nrmay
I'll be reading Invisible Child by A Elliott. and I started
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn for the LT British spy challenge.
I hope to start reading early, after I drop my nephew off at nature camp this morning.
Camping trip was postponed. That's for the best as I have a gardener coming Sat and I'm getting ready to host book club on Tue.
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn for the LT British spy challenge.
I hope to start reading early, after I drop my nephew off at nature camp this morning.
Camping trip was postponed. That's for the best as I have a gardener coming Sat and I'm getting ready to host book club on Tue.
12benitastrnad
I am also in. I plan on staying home this weekend and do lots of cooking and reading.
13PaulCranswick
Ditto. I also plan a reading slug-fest over the weekend!
14alcottacre
Friday Night Update:
Books read from: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon, Lock In by John Scalzi, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis, The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan, The Murrow Boys by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~5.25 hours
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~5.25 hours
Books read from: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon, Lock In by John Scalzi, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis, The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan, The Murrow Boys by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~5.25 hours
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~5.25 hours
15Carmenere
Friday Night Update: 9:25pm
Books read from: The Operator
Books listened to: The Children on the Hill
Snacks/Meals: California rolls for lunch and Spaghetti O's for dinner (with a healthy salad)
Non-Book activities: Weeded my patio while listening to The Children on the Hill - Duolingo - Guardian's baseball
Thoughts: August, please slow down
Books Finished:
Time reading & listening: 3.45 hours
Books read from: The Operator
Books listened to: The Children on the Hill
Snacks/Meals: California rolls for lunch and Spaghetti O's for dinner (with a healthy salad)
Non-Book activities: Weeded my patio while listening to The Children on the Hill - Duolingo - Guardian's baseball
Thoughts: August, please slow down
Books Finished:
Time reading & listening: 3.45 hours
16thornton37814
Friday reading/listening:
Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, A Taste for Vengeance by Martin Walker, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War by DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook
Books finished: None yet
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: ??
Thoughts: ??
Non-book activities: Petting cats, cross stitch, Zoom genealogy chat
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ??
I guess I need to get on the road if I get to the cross stitch and back before the thunderstorms arrive.
Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, A Taste for Vengeance by Martin Walker, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War by DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook
Books finished: None yet
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: ??
Thoughts: ??
Non-book activities: Petting cats, cross stitch, Zoom genealogy chat
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ??
I guess I need to get on the road if I get to the cross stitch and back before the thunderstorms arrive.
17benitastrnad
Saturday afternoon update
Books read from: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell. Battlefield: Farming A Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. I am listening to Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: A Reaper At the Gates by Sabaa Tahir
Book Thoughts: I am frantically trying to finish the biography of Clementine Churchill before it is due back. I got it through ILL and it is due on August 11. I will finish it, but I did ask for an extension. It was denied. What? I have not had that happen in the past. I will comply and get the last 100 pages read this weekend. I am too far invested in it to quit now. I am enjoying the Melanie Benjamin book. It is fluffy historical fiction but it is engaging and that is what counts in book to listen to in the car.
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: I had a left over bean dish on a piece of bread. I have to do more cooking today. I need to restock the refrigerator and at least bake some cookies this weekend.
Nonbook activities: I want to go to the swimming pool today but it is thundering so I am sure it is closed.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 252
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 686.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
Books read from: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell. Battlefield: Farming A Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. I am listening to Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: A Reaper At the Gates by Sabaa Tahir
Book Thoughts: I am frantically trying to finish the biography of Clementine Churchill before it is due back. I got it through ILL and it is due on August 11. I will finish it, but I did ask for an extension. It was denied. What? I have not had that happen in the past. I will comply and get the last 100 pages read this weekend. I am too far invested in it to quit now. I am enjoying the Melanie Benjamin book. It is fluffy historical fiction but it is engaging and that is what counts in book to listen to in the car.
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: I had a left over bean dish on a piece of bread. I have to do more cooking today. I need to restock the refrigerator and at least bake some cookies this weekend.
Nonbook activities: I want to go to the swimming pool today but it is thundering so I am sure it is closed.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 252
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 686.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
18fuzzi
>17 benitastrnad: return it late if you have to.
19thornton37814
>17 benitastrnad: I used to do ILL. I'd occasionally notice libraries who said they did not renew ILLs. Some of them gave twice as long as most libraries did at the beginning. Others gave a normal period but just didn't renew things. Perhaps a patron has a hold on it at their library if it isn't the renewal policy. I know I denied one or two over the years I did ILL because of a patron hold. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
20torontoc
I just started Dictator by Robert Harris- it is the last in a trilogy about Cicero.
21benitastrnad
Saturday evening update
Books read from: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell. Battlefield: Farming A Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. I am listening to Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin and Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: A Reaper At the Gates by Sabaa Tahir
Book Thoughts: I read a bunch of Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill today and am now within 60 pages of finishing reading it. I will get it done by August 11. I spent an hour looking through some of my book boxes trying to find Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. I didn't find it. My LT records tell me what box it is in and I usually have no problem finding books - but not this time. I was going to participate in the group read over on Mark's thread that will happen later this month, but maybe not. I like Stegner's writing but I read Big Rock Candy Mountain and it took me three months to finish it. This was for one of the first group reads I participated in. It might have been the American Author's challenge. It was a good book, but it was one you could put down and forget for days on end. However, it was a memorable book and worth the time I took to read it. I forgot that I have a book club meeting at the end of this month and the book is Silent Patient. I traipsed down to the public library and got the recorded version of the book and also picked up the next Bruno, Chief of Police book as well. I have lots of reading to do this month and every intention of getting it all done.
Time reading: 3 hour
Time posting:
Food: I baked oatmeal raisin cookies and this time they turned out perfectly. I will have food for my lunches next week! Now I have to get some potato salad made tomorrow.
Nonbook activities: I stayed at home and talked on the phone and read. Along with the cooking.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 252
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 688.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
Books read from: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell. Battlefield: Farming A Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. I am listening to Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin and Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: A Reaper At the Gates by Sabaa Tahir
Book Thoughts: I read a bunch of Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill today and am now within 60 pages of finishing reading it. I will get it done by August 11. I spent an hour looking through some of my book boxes trying to find Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. I didn't find it. My LT records tell me what box it is in and I usually have no problem finding books - but not this time. I was going to participate in the group read over on Mark's thread that will happen later this month, but maybe not. I like Stegner's writing but I read Big Rock Candy Mountain and it took me three months to finish it. This was for one of the first group reads I participated in. It might have been the American Author's challenge. It was a good book, but it was one you could put down and forget for days on end. However, it was a memorable book and worth the time I took to read it. I forgot that I have a book club meeting at the end of this month and the book is Silent Patient. I traipsed down to the public library and got the recorded version of the book and also picked up the next Bruno, Chief of Police book as well. I have lots of reading to do this month and every intention of getting it all done.
Time reading: 3 hour
Time posting:
Food: I baked oatmeal raisin cookies and this time they turned out perfectly. I will have food for my lunches next week! Now I have to get some potato salad made tomorrow.
Nonbook activities: I stayed at home and talked on the phone and read. Along with the cooking.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 252
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 688.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
22susanna.fraser
Saturday evening report of reading since yesterday:
Books read from: Making Numbers Count, The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
Books finished: Making Numbers Count
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 7:25 PM
Snacks: saltines--I've had a stomachache all afternoon and am testing my tolerance for bland foods :-(
Thoughts: Very much in nonfiction mode this weekend
Non-book activities: Farmers market, birding supply store, nap, writing
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hours
Books read from: Making Numbers Count, The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
Books finished: Making Numbers Count
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 7:25 PM
Snacks: saltines--I've had a stomachache all afternoon and am testing my tolerance for bland foods :-(
Thoughts: Very much in nonfiction mode this weekend
Non-book activities: Farmers market, birding supply store, nap, writing
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hours
23lottpoet
Saturday:
Books read from: Amateur by Thomas Page McBee
Books finished: Marxism: Philosophy and Economics by Thomas Sowell
Time reading: 4 hrs., 46 mins.
Snacks: oat milk ice cream with maple cream, Siete Grain Free Mexican Shortbread, banana chips
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hrs., 46 mins.
Books read from: Amateur by Thomas Page McBee
Books finished: Marxism: Philosophy and Economics by Thomas Sowell
Time reading: 4 hrs., 46 mins.
Snacks: oat milk ice cream with maple cream, Siete Grain Free Mexican Shortbread, banana chips
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hrs., 46 mins.
24alcottacre
Saturday Night Update:
Books read from: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon, Lock In by John Scalzi, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis, The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan, The Murrow Boys by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, Witness in Death by J.D. Robb, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Books finished: 1, Lock In
Time reading: ~6.5 hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~11.75 hours
Books read from: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon, Lock In by John Scalzi, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis, The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan, The Murrow Boys by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, Witness in Death by J.D. Robb, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Books finished: 1, Lock In
Time reading: ~6.5 hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~11.75 hours
25nrmay
>21 benitastrnad: Benita, I read the 1st in the Tahir series and liked it, but was put off by the 2nd which was very grim and violent for a YA novel. Maybe I should try again as they all get 4****
>24 alcottacre: Love the variety of your current books!
Sunday morning -
Books:
Finished The Alice Network, historical fiction by Kate Quinn. spies/WWI & WWII
Still reading Invisible Child
Started Better Off Dead, a Jack Reacher adventure by Lee Child.
Audio book is The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas, in the Lady Serlock mystery series.
Saturday night dinner was homemade vegetable beef soup.
Other activity:
Sunday papers and puzzles.
Gardenders spruced up my back yard with new plants, pruning, weeding.
Will pick up, tidy and shop today in preparation for book club and brunch here on Tue.
Our book this month is Radio Girls by Sarah Stratford.
Sunny, 82 F. (28 C.) just before noon.
>24 alcottacre: Love the variety of your current books!
Sunday morning -
Books:
Finished The Alice Network, historical fiction by Kate Quinn. spies/WWI & WWII
Still reading Invisible Child
Started Better Off Dead, a Jack Reacher adventure by Lee Child.
Audio book is The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas, in the Lady Serlock mystery series.
Saturday night dinner was homemade vegetable beef soup.
Other activity:
Sunday papers and puzzles.
Gardenders spruced up my back yard with new plants, pruning, weeding.
Will pick up, tidy and shop today in preparation for book club and brunch here on Tue.
Our book this month is Radio Girls by Sarah Stratford.
Sunny, 82 F. (28 C.) just before noon.
26thornton37814
Sunday update for Saturday:
Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, A Taste for Vengeance by Martin Walker, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War by DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook
Books finished: A Taste for Vengeance by Martin Walker
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: ??
Thoughts: Why is gas 30 cents/gallon cheaper just 30 miles up the road in the same state?
Non-book activities: Petting cats, cross stitch, a visit to the cross stitch shop in Johnson City
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ??
Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, A Taste for Vengeance by Martin Walker, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War by DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook
Books finished: A Taste for Vengeance by Martin Walker
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: ??
Thoughts: Why is gas 30 cents/gallon cheaper just 30 miles up the road in the same state?
Non-book activities: Petting cats, cross stitch, a visit to the cross stitch shop in Johnson City
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ??
27benitastrnad
>25 nrmay:
I find that many of the YA series are overly violent. I think that they are really adult novels masquerading as YA. I had a talk with one of the sales reps from Bloomsbury (they publish the Sarah Maas books like the Throne of Glass and Court of Thorns and Roses series) about this very subject - sex and violence in these YA series. I told her that if I were a librarian in a high school or junior high school there was no way I would put either of those series on the shelves. She was surprised and wondered what I found objectionable. I told her the sex and violence. She replied that they were best sellers. I told her that if a parent happened to read either of those books they would be at the principals office first thing in the morning with a complaint. I don’t think that a school librarian in the country would want to take a chance on that happening.
What amazes me is that parents don’t complain about books like these (especially that Hunger Games series) and the majority of complaints are centered around books that have to do with race and sexual orientation. I am astonished that explicit love scenes and children killing children are OK but when a YA author tackles social and cultural questions like violence then the roof comes off of schools and public libraries. Strange.
I find that many of the YA series are overly violent. I think that they are really adult novels masquerading as YA. I had a talk with one of the sales reps from Bloomsbury (they publish the Sarah Maas books like the Throne of Glass and Court of Thorns and Roses series) about this very subject - sex and violence in these YA series. I told her that if I were a librarian in a high school or junior high school there was no way I would put either of those series on the shelves. She was surprised and wondered what I found objectionable. I told her the sex and violence. She replied that they were best sellers. I told her that if a parent happened to read either of those books they would be at the principals office first thing in the morning with a complaint. I don’t think that a school librarian in the country would want to take a chance on that happening.
What amazes me is that parents don’t complain about books like these (especially that Hunger Games series) and the majority of complaints are centered around books that have to do with race and sexual orientation. I am astonished that explicit love scenes and children killing children are OK but when a YA author tackles social and cultural questions like violence then the roof comes off of schools and public libraries. Strange.
28benitastrnad
Sunday evening update
Books read from: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell. Battlefield: Farming A Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. Wench by Delon Perkins-Valdez for a real life book club. I am listening to Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides for a real life book club and have put aside Swans of Fifth Avenue for the time being.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: A Reaper At the Gates by Sabaa Tahir. Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell
Book Thoughts: I finished the biography of Clementine Churchill with a couple of days to spare! I read this book for the Nonfiction Challenge here on LT. The biography challenge was supposed to be in August but we got mixed up and now it is September. I will have my book read for that month! That’s good because I will need to devote September to reading the books for the Kansas Author’s Club fiction contest. I am one of the judges this year.
Time reading: 3 hour
Time posting:
Food: I am not going to get my potato salad done tonight. I want to watch Grantchester and go to bed early. I will have to stop at Publix and purchase some potato salad for my lunches next week. I did get the dressing done, just didn’t have time to boil potatoes this afternoon.
Nonbook activities: I got chased out of the swimming pool this afternoon by the pop up thunderstorms that are so common down here at this time of year.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 253
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 691.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
Books read from: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell. Battlefield: Farming A Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. Wench by Delon Perkins-Valdez for a real life book club. I am listening to Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides for a real life book club and have put aside Swans of Fifth Avenue for the time being.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: A Reaper At the Gates by Sabaa Tahir. Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell
Book Thoughts: I finished the biography of Clementine Churchill with a couple of days to spare! I read this book for the Nonfiction Challenge here on LT. The biography challenge was supposed to be in August but we got mixed up and now it is September. I will have my book read for that month! That’s good because I will need to devote September to reading the books for the Kansas Author’s Club fiction contest. I am one of the judges this year.
Time reading: 3 hour
Time posting:
Food: I am not going to get my potato salad done tonight. I want to watch Grantchester and go to bed early. I will have to stop at Publix and purchase some potato salad for my lunches next week. I did get the dressing done, just didn’t have time to boil potatoes this afternoon.
Nonbook activities: I got chased out of the swimming pool this afternoon by the pop up thunderstorms that are so common down here at this time of year.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 253
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 691.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
29Carmenere
Saturday and Sunday update:
Books read from: The Operator
Books listened to: The Children on the Hill
Snacks/Meals: Saturday: French Bread Pizza. Sunday: Breakfast for dinner - scrambled eggs, bacon and a cinnamon raisin bagel
Non-Book activities: Church, Lined my new kitchen cabinets with non stick contact, tore off carpeting on two steps going upstairs, you tube,
Thoughts: Unless things change, The Operator will become the worst book I've ever read in my life .
Books Finished: almost
Time reading & listening: 9.45 hours
Books read from: The Operator
Books listened to: The Children on the Hill
Snacks/Meals: Saturday: French Bread Pizza. Sunday: Breakfast for dinner - scrambled eggs, bacon and a cinnamon raisin bagel
Non-Book activities: Church, Lined my new kitchen cabinets with non stick contact, tore off carpeting on two steps going upstairs, you tube,
Thoughts: Unless things change, The Operator will become the worst book I've ever read in my life .
Books Finished: almost
Time reading & listening: 9.45 hours
30alcottacre
>25 nrmay: Thanks, Nancy!
Sunday Night Report:
Books read from: Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball, Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis, The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan, The Murrow Boys by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, Witness in Death by J.D. Robb, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Books finished: 1, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Time reading: ~6.75 hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: ~18.5 hours
Sunday Night Report:
Books read from: Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball, Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon, A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis, The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan, The Murrow Boys by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, Witness in Death by J.D. Robb, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Books finished: 1, The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Time reading: ~6.75 hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: ~18.5 hours
31susanna.fraser
Sunday evening
Books read from: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
Books finished: none
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 6:45 PM
Snacks: Chicken noodle soup for dinner--I'm feeling better than yesterday, but more thirsty than hungry
Thoughts: From my current book...before the asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous, Earth was a planet of big dinosaurs and tiny mammals. Now we have big mammals and tiny dinosaurs (i.e. birds). (Yes, there are lots of small mammals and some fairly large birds, but overall it holds true.)
Non-book activities: Church, groceries,
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 8 hours
Books read from: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
Books finished: none
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 6:45 PM
Snacks: Chicken noodle soup for dinner--I'm feeling better than yesterday, but more thirsty than hungry
Thoughts: From my current book...before the asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous, Earth was a planet of big dinosaurs and tiny mammals. Now we have big mammals and tiny dinosaurs (i.e. birds). (Yes, there are lots of small mammals and some fairly large birds, but overall it holds true.)
Non-book activities: Church, groceries,
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 8 hours
32lottpoet
Sunday:
I'm having trouble settling on a book. I put down the one I started yesterday and picked up a different one today that I'm not convinced I'll stick with. I'll be reading through the end of the day Monday because I have the day off.
Books read from: Glory Season by David Brin
Time reading: 2 hrs., 48 min.
Snacks: tacos with ground turkey, Starbursts, fruit smoothie
Non-book activities: video & phone meetings from 8-12, spent the evening looking at old reviews I've written (usually I look at old writing of mine when I need a confidence boost--think I was feeling like I wasn't smart or didn't know things)
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hrs., 34 mins.
I'm having trouble settling on a book. I put down the one I started yesterday and picked up a different one today that I'm not convinced I'll stick with. I'll be reading through the end of the day Monday because I have the day off.
Books read from: Glory Season by David Brin
Time reading: 2 hrs., 48 min.
Snacks: tacos with ground turkey, Starbursts, fruit smoothie
Non-book activities: video & phone meetings from 8-12, spent the evening looking at old reviews I've written (usually I look at old writing of mine when I need a confidence boost--think I was feeling like I wasn't smart or didn't know things)
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hrs., 34 mins.
33fuzzi
Finished one last night, a reread of The Kif Strike Back, yippee!
34Carmenere
I finished The Operator this morning. I think that was the worst book I have ever read in my life. Mixed reactions in my book club but all agreed as a historical fiction of the 1950's small town America it was somewhat enlightening.
35alcottacre
>34 Carmenere: Wow! I can put that one on my 'Do not touch this book with a 10' pole list!'
36Carmenere
>35 alcottacre: Haha honestly I would not recommend this one to anyone. OR perhaps I've just been fortunate enough to have read a number of 3 - 5 star books, many of which came from LT recommendations.
37thornton37814
I never reported Sunday reading.
Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, The Chocolate War by Martin Walker, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War by DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook
Books finished: The Chocolate War by Martin Walker
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: ??
Thoughts: Need to write up the Sunday finish for my own thread, but it will have to wait until after today's faculty meetings.
Non-book activities: church, petting cats, cross stitch, FlossTube
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ??
Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, The Chocolate War by Martin Walker, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War by DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook
Books finished: The Chocolate War by Martin Walker
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: ??
Thoughts: Need to write up the Sunday finish for my own thread, but it will have to wait until after today's faculty meetings.
Non-book activities: church, petting cats, cross stitch, FlossTube
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ??
38alcottacre
>36 Carmenere: I have found if I stick with LT recommendations, I have a great chance of avoiding terrible reads.
39Carmenere
>38 alcottacre: So true, Stasia!
40lottpoet
Monday:
Still picking up books and putting them down. Grudgingly returned to The House of Tomorrow which I had at first enjoyed and still do, but I can't quite capture the magic of the start of the book. I read through the end of the day Monday because I had the day off.
Books read from: Glory Season by David Brin, Taking a Chance by Kat Obie, The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni, A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
Time reading: 3 hrs., 35 min.
Snacks: bananas, gf cinnamon Mexican shortbread, oat pancakes, apple slices with peanut butter
Non-book activities: leisurely soak in the tub, cooking, PT exercises, games on my phone (Two Dots, FreeCell)
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 11 hrs., 9 mins.
Still picking up books and putting them down. Grudgingly returned to The House of Tomorrow which I had at first enjoyed and still do, but I can't quite capture the magic of the start of the book. I read through the end of the day Monday because I had the day off.
Books read from: Glory Season by David Brin, Taking a Chance by Kat Obie, The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni, A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
Time reading: 3 hrs., 35 min.
Snacks: bananas, gf cinnamon Mexican shortbread, oat pancakes, apple slices with peanut butter
Non-book activities: leisurely soak in the tub, cooking, PT exercises, games on my phone (Two Dots, FreeCell)
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 11 hrs., 9 mins.
41benitastrnad
>40 lottpoet:
I read House of Tomorrow back in 2015 and gave it a 3 star rating. For me that is an average. I said in my notes about it that it started off well, but went flat. I think that is what you are finding. If you don't like it - I would Pearl Rule it. Life is too short to waste it on a boring book.
I read House of Tomorrow back in 2015 and gave it a 3 star rating. For me that is an average. I said in my notes about it that it started off well, but went flat. I think that is what you are finding. If you don't like it - I would Pearl Rule it. Life is too short to waste it on a boring book.
42alcottacre
>39 Carmenere: It is one of the reasons that my "Excellent Reads" list is so long, year in and year out.
