The weeks keep rolling on by toward the end of the year and things continue to be crazy.  My work week settled down, thanks to a postponement on the big event that I had scheduled for the end of the week – whew!  Not that it means much of a reprieve – I’m still plugging away at a few projects that must be finished by the end of the year, and then there are all of the holiday tasks on the to-do list.  Christmas cards are stuffed and addressed and will go out in today’s mail, so that’s done – but that just means I have to really turn my attention to shopping now.  I’ve got all of Peanut’s gifts, but that’s about it – nothing for Steve, nothing for Nugget.  Must fix that soon.  (Thank goodness for Amazon Prime!)

Despite the craziness of this week, and everything still left on my to-do list, I did manage to get some reading done.  (This seems to be a theme, these days.  Week is crazy.  Kids, work, etc.  Still got some reading done, but never enough.)  I finished a comic, Batgirl, Vol. 1: The Batgirl of Burnside, and enjoyed it.  Abandoned another coming, ODY-C, Vol. 1: Off to Far Ithicaa, because it was just too weird for me.  (So disappointing: I was really excited about that one.  The Odyssey!  Gender-flipped!  In space!  But it was just too over-the-top.)  Then I devoted a few days to Michael Dirda’s collection of essays on books and the bookish life, Browsings.  I did finish it, but found it quite uneven.  Every so often there would be an essay – like Aurora, his moving call to action on gun control – that I really loved.  But most of them were dull, annoying or both.  It was a short collection, though, so I got through it.  And now I’m midway through Sisters In Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World, by Linda Hirshmann.  As a woman and a lawyer, I’ve benefitted and learned from both of their examples, and so I’m finding this engaging book completely fascinating.

On the reading agenda for this week: finish Sisters In Law, then tackle another library book.  I have a few that are due back on December 21st, and while I think I should be able to renew them, I’m still focusing on those.  I think I’ll pick up one of the two Marilynne Robinson essay collections I have out, or maybe the first volume of Black Widow.

Coming up on the blog: a nine month (!) update for Nugget on Wednesday, and a belated final update on the fall list on Friday.  Have a great week, my friends!

What are you reading today?