Happy Monday, everyone!  How were your weekends?  Ours was fun and busier than usual.  On Saturday we celebrated National Trails Day with our June hike – more on that coming on Wednesday.  In the afternoon, while Peanut napped and hubby relaxed, I took Nugget for a stroll around East Aurora, which is becoming one of our favorite places to walk.  We spent Sunday running around getting errands and cleaning done before my parents arrived for a quick visit with the littles.

So, then.  I’ve seen these “What are you reading?” posts on so many book blogs and I love the concept of giving brief updates on what the blogger is in the midst of reading, what he or she has just wrapped up and what’s next on deck.  They’re always some of my favorite posts to read each week.  And now I’m jumping on board.  At least, I’m going to test out the concept and see how it works for my blog.  I’m happy striking a balance between bookish posts and posts about our family activities, but the key there is balance, and I do feel that I’ve been skewing a little more toward the family side of things recently.  I want to get back to more frequent bookish content.  So that’s a goal of mine, and I think doing posts like these will fit well in my life and schedule right now, and give me a built-in way to discuss books at least once a week.  (Ideally, I’d like my three weekly posts to mix two bookish posts, or one bookish and one more general post, with one family or home post, so that’s what I’ll work towards.)

Anyway!  With our busy weekend I didn’t get much reading done.  I mentioned in my last reading round-up post that I’ve had another library mishap.  Each time I think I’m making some progress on the stack, I end up taking one step forward and two steps back.  I’ve whittled the current library pile down to eight (!) books checked out, one of which I’ve finished and am ready to return, but I now have another four books on the holds shelf ready to check out.  D’oh!  Over the weekend I finished up The Five Love Languages of Children, which was decent, albeit a bit repetitive of the content in the original The Five Love Languages, which hubby and I read years ago.  I’ve just started Brad Meltzer’s The Inner Circle, which is the first of his series of political thrillers featuring fictional Archives employee Beecher White.  Political thrillers aren’t usually my thing, and the Beecher White novels seem to be getting panned on Goodreads, but I heard about them through Book Riot which makes me inclined to at least give the first one a chance.  Plus I’m craving some D.C. in my life right now, and a good inside-the-Beltway page turner seems like just the thing to tide me over until I visit this summer (for the first time since I moved away!).

What are you reading this week?