Oh, my gosh, you guys.  What a busy, packed weekend I had!  All good stuff – Taste of Buffalo on Saturday morning (post coming soon), a family swim on Saturday afternoon, blueberry picking and another family swim on Sunday… it was the sort of memory-making summer weekend that I cling to when the weather gets cold and dreary (and it will get cold and dreary – I saw a t-shirt in a shop window that said “Winter Is Coming. Buffalo NY” the other day – but not just yet).

Anyway, it was a fun weekend, and a busy one, but not one that left much time for reading.  That’s okay.  I love a lazy summer afternoon spent reading by the lake or pool, or on the beach, and I know those types of afternoons are coming, too.  But in the meantime I enjoyed the heck out of this weekend and will have posts about both the Taste of Buffalo and our blueberry-picking fun coming up in the next couple of weeks.  And I did do a little reading.  I finished Summer Sisters on Friday afternoon (post coming soon!) and continued plugging away at The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings for the rest of my weekend reading time.  The Fellowship is fascinating, but it’s extremely slow going.  I’m trying to read one chapter every day, and believe me, some days that seems to be all I can manage.  Those chapters are long, and they’re dense.

Upcoming this week, I’m hoping to finish The Fellowship – I think it’ll take another few days, but I should be able to get it done before next weekend rolls around if I apply myself – and then I’ll turn my attention, finally, back to Doomsday Book.  I’m taking the kids on a little road trip later in the week (more to come on that) and hoping to get some more reading done.  If I do, I’ll go either for The Millionaire and the Bard or Helen Castor’s new book, Joan of Arc.  How fun to have so many exciting choices right now!

As for the blog this week, look for a Nugget update on Wednesday (he’s four months old! how did that happen?) and my final Summer of #BlumeAlong post (on Summer Sisters) on Friday.  Have a good week, my friends!

Did you have a good summer weekend?  Get any reading done?