This past weekend was the first weekend in awhile that we haven’t had a big home improvement task on our agenda.  We’ve done all the major projects that we wanted to do before putting our house on the market, and now we’re just keeping it in pristine condition in case of last minute showings – but the painting, sanding, staging, and major cleaning has slowed down for a bit.  That doesn’t mean that I got to read much this weekend, of course – because if I don’t have house work to do, it seems, work-work flares up.  I had to put in some time on the ol’ job this weekend, and although I didn’t finish everything I wanted to do, I did get at least one major task done.  That probably didn’t cut into my reading too much, actually – I worked on it on Saturday afternoon while Steve took Nugget to the grocery store and Peanut resisted her afternoon nap.  I really should have worked on Sunday, too, but Steve wasn’t feeling super great and I ended up on Nugget patrol all afternoon.  Fine with me – I love hanging out with Nugget – but I’m going to be a bit up against it this week.  I have a lot to do.

As far as reading is concerned, it was a slow-ish week.  I finished Fates and Furies, the new Lauren Groff novel, which was just as outstanding as the book tastemakers I follow promised it would be.  And then I picked up Maggie Thrash’s graphic memoir, Honor Girl, and read it in less than a day – it was really compelling and brought me right back to my own camp days.  (Although my camp – being a Girl Scout camp in the Adirondacks – was a lot more open-minded and much friendlier than Camp Bellwether.)  Then I started Sloane Crosley’s debut novel, The Clasp, but abandoned it after about 80 pages.  I really love her essays, but the book just wasn’t doing it for me.  I’ll return it to the library and who knows?  Maybe one day I’ll pick it up again and enjoy it better on a second attempt.  (Look at me abandoning books!)  Now I’m about 100 or so pages into The Witches: Salem 1692, and WOW is it ever good.  I don’t know what it is about the nonfiction that’s been published in 2015, but I feel like publishers are just killing it.  Seriously, in what year do we get new Erik Larson, new Sarah Vowell, and new Stacy Schiff?  It’s an embarrassment of riches, is what it is.

Up on the blog this week: a Nugget update on Wednesday (I’m thinking of making these posts private, or transferring them to a password-protected blog just for family and friends, but still writing them in the meantime so I figured I’d share) and our final summer vacation post on Friday.  It seemed silly to be recapping fall hiking before I’d finished telling you about our summer travels, so I’m going to do that.  I have some really cool posts coming up over the next couple of months, and I’m so excited to share with you guys.

What are you reading this week?