Well – it’s Monday morning, and not just any Monday, but the first day of school! Gulp. How did summer go so quickly? Nugget was more excited than I have seen him in a long time – possibly more excited than he was on Christmas Eve. Peanut was… quietly enduring. (A note: I think it’s just wrong that school starts before Labor Day. Just wrong. I can only conclude that the school district is burying my comments from the annual scheduling survey. Get your tinfoil hats out, people!)

Anyway – as you can see from the above, despite the busy week of getting ready to go back to school, plus the ongoing unpacking push (last week was “clothes week” and I am SO happy with my newly organized closet…) I still managed to push through a lot of pages. First of all, in the “finished” category – Nugget and I wrapped up Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire after months of reading half a chapter to one chapter at bedtime every night. On audio, while commuting, running errands and unpacking, I whipped through At Bertram’s Hotel, which wasn’t my favorite of Miss Marple’s outings but was nonetheless time well spent. (As time with Miss Marple always is.) And finally, on paper, Bricks and Mortar, which is a story of an architect and his family in the first decades of the twentieth century – I liked it, but didn’t love it as much as I thought I would.

Whew! Still with me? Moving on to current reads, I have three on the go. Nugget and I started reading Winnie-the-Pooh at bedtime and are rolling right through it; we’ll finish it this week. Nugget was a bit skeptical (I think he may have through Pooh was babyish – at first) but he cackled through the chapter in which Pooh and Piglet think they’re tracking a Woozle through the snow but are actually just tracking themselves, and I think he’s a convert. On audio, I’m reading and loving Lucy Mangan’s memoir Bookworm. (I feel like we could be good friends. Anyone else?) And in print, I’m finally getting to The Greengage Summer, which has been on my TBR for years. So, so good!

Looking back at this list – I don’t know how I have made it through so many books this past week, but I love it! Reader power!

I can’t believe it’s the first day of school already – hold me. Summer vacation went by way too fast.