Morning, friends! Happy Thanksgiving – one more time – to all who were celebrating this weekend. I hope you had a delicious feast, some time with family, plenty of fresh air, and a chance to curl up with a book. I got all of those things this weekend and it was wonderful. Of course, now I am staring down a pile of emails to start the week off – c’est la vie.

The reading was good indeed. On Monday, I finished up War in Val d’Orcia, which was an incredible read and certainly in line for one of the top ten books of my reading year. Next up, I wanted something short and quick, so I picked up A.N. Wilson’s new bite-sized book about Queen Elizabeth II, Lilibet: The Girl Who Would Be Queen. I loved The King and the Christmas Tree, which Wilson published last year, and this new edition was just as delightful. It took me longer to read than it ordinarily would because in the intervening time I had a day of trial (that went until after 8:00pm my time) and my Thanksgiving houseguests arrived. But Lilibet provided a nice distraction. The rest of the week, when not cooking or entertaining, I churned through A Poem for Every Autumn Day – I was way behind, having fallen off the daily poetry reading wagon back in September. So instead of catching up and finishing out November with daily poetry, I figured – I’m already reading this in a couple of big bites; might as well just finish it. So I did. Finally, I turned back to The Historian on my kindle. I’d started it on the plane to Seattle earlier in the month and was planning to save it for my next flight (I have one more business trip coming up in 2022) but it feels like such a November read and I really wanted to finish it this month. I still have a few hours of reading left – it’s getting very spooky – and haven’t really given any thought at all to what I’ll read next. We’ll all be surprised.

Thanksgiving tradition – turkey trotting! I went for the Turkey Day 5K this year because it was near my house and had a one mile run for Nugget. He was actually fighting a cold, but still banged out a sub-eight minute mile. Unbelievable! I was much slower in the 5K.

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend and aren’t too behind to start the week! What are you reading?