Today officially begins 2020 Thanksgiving Reading Weekend (click on button above for more information), which lasts through Sunday. For this kickoff post, Jenn suggested a few questions so I thought I’d answer the ones I felt relevant to me and add in one of my own (the last question):
- How will/did you celebrate Thanksgiving? My wife Kim and I are starting today, as I write this post even, by listening to Alice Restaurant’s Massacree by Arlo Guthrie, a Thanksgiving tradition. This morning, she also is cooking me a Mrs. Smith’s pumpkin pie. Longer explanation than probably is necessary: She’s a vegan, the pie has real butter in it, and she got that instead of making one because she has lost her senses of taste and smell when she had covid recently and it hasn’t returned yet so she figured what was the point. And yes, I had/have covid too. Mine is taking a bit longer to leave, but it’s (been) mild. Later, we’ll have a full Thanksgiving dinner with Torfurky, stuffing, mashed cauliflower, sweet potato casserole with maple pecan crumbles, green bean casserole, and rolls. We also plan on watching Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and Pieces of April, two other Thanksgiving traditions.
- What’s in your TBR pile for the weekend? Basically see my sign-up post, but in short, the first three Ruth Galloway mysteries by Elly Griffiths and three in the Serge Storm series by Tim Dorsey.
- How much time do you think you’ll have for reading? Not counting today, I’ll have lots of time for reading as I’m off tomorrow too and this weekend. I hope by the end of the weekend, I’ll feel well enough to let the director of the library where I work that I’ll be able to return to work on Monday.
- What book are you starting out with? Unofficially, I already began last night with The Big Bamboo, the eight in the Serge Storms series, by Tim Dorsey. I’ll probably dip into it a little later this morning and this afternoon, especially as Kim has to sleep this afternoon as she returns to work tonight for the start of her work week, a midnight shift.
- Are you reading print, ebooks, or audio? Maybe a bit of each? I’m reading all ebooks, but on a whim, earlier in the week, I did check out an audiobook from the Free Library of Philadelphia: A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton as read by Mary Peiffer. So I might get to that.
- For what are you thankful this Thanksgiving? That despite getting covid earlier this month, that we have our health, which is well enough that our cases of covid are, and were, mild. We know that it is and has not been the same for others. Personally, I also am thankful for family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers who have been supportive of both me and my wife over the last few weeks. I also am thankful that my dad, who received a covid test last week, got word this week that he was negative.
How about you? For what are you thankful this Thanksgiving?
Still an unfinished person... 
I’m with Kim. If you can’t taste the food then it doesn’t matter if a little butter it in it. Has her taste returned?
The food this Thanksgiving was just okay for me. I think my mood was not helping the appetite at all. Today I am just puttering around and will sit down with my book in a bit. Back to work tomorrow, remotely. Not too long though because I believe I am off again the third week of December through January 8th. Oh, my work is losing it. They don’t realize how much I do until I am gone, of course.
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Her taste hasn’t returned… And I might not have explained well. She’s a vegan so can’t have butter. So the pie was mine. Figured she couldn’t taste pumpkin anyway. 😔
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Confession: I’ve never seen the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and feel like I should. Maybe I’ll watch it tonight.
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Did you watch it?
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How could I have forgotten about the Thankfully Reading Weekend? We are off to hunt for shrikes this afternoon, but I may join in tomorrow and Sunday. I certainly have lots of nonfiction here from the library that I’d like to read.
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Hope you do join in. I finished one book so far. I tried an audiobook this afternoon, but it didn’t go well. Now I’m in the middle of a CSI marathon.
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Happy thanksgiving to you! I’m glad you’re continuing to improve. 🙂
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Ok that is true love…cooking when you can’t smell or taste anything. LOL Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Reading! I’m participating in the readathon as well.
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Happy Thanksgiving Bryan. Glad you 2 are doing better. The 2 of us are having real turkey today, no gang of 10 as usual but, I’m making a traditional dinner. My friend & her husband are have your Vegan turkey as well LOL – I just flashed when you posted about Pieces of April. I loved that movie and recall giving someone the DVD years ago and now it’s gone LOL – enjoy you day, movies and reading.
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I’m unofficially participating too. I’ve started with the audiobook for When No One is Watching, Alyssa Cole – it’s a thriller. I figure if I have to cook (we’re having ham and roast chicken – and a Patti labelle Pie for dessert) – I can at least listen to audiobooks. I’m also putting up Christmas decorations inside this weekend.
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Unofficially? Come on. Join in officially. 🙂 Ooooh, ham and roast chicken. Yum. And Christmas decorations, cool. I wish we could…but cats rule everything around me (C.R.E.A.M.) ;-).
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I’m so glad to hear you are recovering! It’s a very different Thanksgiving this year. We all have so much to be thankful for!
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But it’s a good one too when we have our immediate family around us.
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