No need for a gallery today, because the only book I spent any time with – and it wasn’t much time, to be perfectly clear – over the last week was Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte, which I started last weekend. So I’m now at over a week and counting, and still only maybe a third of the way through? In my defense, it’s been an eventful week in the world – much doomscrolling has happened, and I’ve got to get back to putting my phone on its charging cradle in another room so that I can focus on my book. Multiple evenings last week I was either scrolling through my Washington Post app, researching how to move to Canada, or escaping into long phone conversations with friends or family members. What I was not doing: reading Shirley.

Also in my defense, Charlotte Bronte takes over a hundred pages to introduce the title character. Why?!

Anyway – summer is about to get super busy in these parts, and I don’t want to be toting my gigantic omnibus edition of Charlotte and Emily Bronte’s novels (especially since the publisher made the terrible judgment call of excluding the best Bronte, Anne) – so I need to get after it. I still have several nights of reading left in the book, and that’s best case scenario where I don’t doomscroll at all, so we’ll see how well I even do with that. No idea what’s up next in the book department, either, although I do have the audio version of Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery downloaded and ready to go, and I think that will be in my earbuds before too long.

It’s officially H-O-T in Virginia! Good thing we have somewhere to beat the heat.

What are you reading this week?