Rather another slow reading week – oof. I suspect they’re going to be like this for awhile – at least another few weeks, if not longer. It was another busy one at work, and long days of working until after 8:00pm left me with very little energy to spare for anything else, including reading. This is going to be another busy week, but I have to find ways to balance it out a little better, so I’ll be working on that.

But about the reading I did do. I finished up Death on the Down Beat early in the week and absolutely loved it – such a fun format (I always enjoy an epistolary novel) and a great premise. I didn’t guess whodunit, and it was fun to be surprised. I’d thought I would finish it on Monday night (or even Monday morning over my coffee) but it took me until Tuesday; see above, crazy work week. Then I turned to Sylvia’s Lovers, another one off my Classics Club list and the final Elizabeth Gaskell novel I had yet to read (unless you count The Life of Charlotte Bronte, which was pretty heavily fictionalized… I haven’t read that yet, either). My edition is 460 pages, so I felt that was very doable over the course of a week. But again, crazy work week – and add that to a lot of dialect, and it’s a recipe for slow reading. I’m about a third of the way through now, and cherishing ambitions of finishing it up this week. For that to happen, I’ll have to find a way to balance out my energy levels a bit better. And finally, I started Lovely War on Audible – a World War I love story narrated by Greek gods, how can you go wrong? I’m about two hours into the audiobook and loving every minute.

This week – well, it all kind of depends on how week I do with grabbing a little time to myself around another busy work week plus all the usual demands of parenting. It would be great to finish up Sylvia’s Lovers and after I do, I have my eye on a Tove Jansson book set in October. Well, one thing at a time.

Saturday was a perfect bluebird fall day, just the hiking weather we love on a weekend!