Good morning, and happy Tuesday! I hope you’re recovering well from your long weekend – we had a good one, and some people (coughKIDScough) had definite post-holiday blues when it was time to get ready for school this morning. It was a busy and full three days – including a trip to the pool (and first time on the diving board for the little guy), kayaking with friends, and a cookout with the same friends that lasted eight hours because everyone was having such a good time. Mix in some quality time with the Peloton and really the only thing missing was a lot of reading time, although you wouldn’t know it.

I finished up The Three Musketeers mid-week last week, and now I’m down to just two books left in my Classics Club challenge, before my deadline of July. Home stretch! Before picking up the next doorstopper I wanted to decompress with some shorter books and/or faster reads, so I blazed through Coronation (takes place in early June, so perhaps I should have waited, but I guess I read it in between the recent coronation and the month of the action, so there you are) and Letter from New York (which was one of the most charming books I’ve read in many, many months – loved every word) before turning to My Garden World, which is the last book remaining on my spring stack. In between, I sprinkled in poems here and there out of A Nature Poem for Every Spring Evening, which I’d like to finish up by the end of May. So – quite a bit of reading, but much of it taking place over the workweek and less so over the weekend. I do often see my reading pace slow down at this time of year, when there’s so much I want to be doing outdoors, so this isn’t unexpected.

I’m not sure what’s on deck next. My work team has started a book club and our June book is Crying in H Mart; I have it checked out from the library and may read that next, as there’s a waiting list and I won’t be able to renew it. But I also have a few other books I’d like to get to in June, so maybe one of them? We’ll see – it will be a game time decision.

It’s officially summer when the kayaks are in the water! We met up with friends (the canoeists in the pic above) at a small lake in Maryland for a paddle. The lake was tinier than expected so we mostly bobbed around looking at birds, but I don’t think anyone was mad about it.

How was your Memorial Day weekend? What are you reading these days?