Ahhhh...Monday morning and I am all alone in a quiet house. We saw friends and had some fun on Saturday, but Sunday was a busy, exhausting day. Ready to catch up today and start a new week!
I did have a satisfying reading week:
- I finished The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan just moments before my book group meeting. Unfortunately, I was too sick to go to the meeting and was very disappointed because I loved the book and was looking forward to discussing it. Here's my review - I still want to discuss it so be sure to leave comments!
- After that, I went back to my book-in-progress and...I FINISHED MIDDLEMARCH! Woohoo! Yes, it only took me a month, but I did finish this hefty classic...and enjoyed it very much. Review to come this week.
- My reading strategy for the rest of the month is to focus on beefing up my 2012 Reading Challenges (especially reading from my TBR shelves) and reading as many books as possible to wrap up the year! I was also craving some kids/teen/YA reading after my month-long relationship with Middlemarch. So I am now reading Greetings From Planet Earth by Barbara Kerley, a middle-grade novel about a 12-year old boy in 1977 who is obsessed with space travel...and with learning more about his father who was MIA in Vietnam. It's great so far.
- On audio, I went back to a middle-grade audio book I started many months ago and then set aside, Wildwood by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis. I picked it up where I left off and am enjoying it so far.
- My husband, Ken, finished The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly.
- Ken is now reading The Big Burn by Timothy Egan, after hearing how much I liked it!
- I think both of our sons have been too busy with school work for much reading lately.
What are you and your family reading this week?
(What are you reading Monday is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey, with a kid/teen version hosted by Teach Mentor Texts.)
1 comment:
Congrats on finishing Middlemarch! That's an accomplishment.
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