Happy Monday… afternoon/evening, whoops! It’s been another long one, folks. I always mean to write this post first thing in the morning and it seems half the time I forget, and don’t think of it until late in the day… or Tuesday. This time, I have an excuse – I had an early morning meeting at our new house! So, for those who have noticed the vague references to a big/stressful family project and haven’t actually guessed (I always think I’m more mysterious than I actually am) – the big project is Adventures in Real Estate. We’re buying and renovating a house – last Thursday was the big closing day and it went off smoothly despite my many fears, and now we’re into the fun stuff. Today I was giving last minute instructions to the house painters and bathroom renovator as both started their work, and then I rushed home to jump into an all-day work meeting and only just came up for air. But this is a good development, we’re all very excited about it, and I’ll share (a few) more details on Wednesday.

So, as you can see, it was a slow reading week for good reason. Closing week is always stressful – I’ve been through it a few times – and I often lack the brain power for a book during those really anxious, busy weeks. And another reason: after finishing up Sinister Spring on Monday morning, I turned to The Three Musketeers, which is a doorstopper at 672 pages (my edition, anyway). As of press time, I’m about 425-ish pages in, so making good progress especially considering the hectic week, and I expect to be done with the book by the middle of this week or so. It’s good, swashbuckling, silly fun and I’m enjoying it – just finding it hard to carve out the time to sit down and get lost in d’Artagnan’s adventures with the Three Musketeers.

After this, I’m craving something shorter – a novella or some other quick read will be just what the doctor ordered. No specific book in mind, although my work book club is reading Crying in H Mart for our June meeting and I just got a notification that my library hold copy is on its way, so perhaps that? We’ll see.

Exciting stuff! Just seven years after selling our house in western New York and moving back to Virginia, we’re finally homeowners again! We couldn’t be happier with our new house – it’s in the neighborhood we wanted, on a nice quiet street, with great bones and lots of scope for us to personalize it and make it exactly what we want. We’ve already met a few of our soon-to-be new neighbors and they have all been so friendly and welcoming. Moving day can’t come soon enough!

What are you reading this week?