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An Update on Reading and Life

Did you miss me? I've been silent for two full weeks. I didn't intentionally take a break from blogging. Life just got busy and when I had a few minutes free, I just didn't feel like writing.

I'm still not back completely. One of the biggest things that has taken over my life is my son's participation in Odyssey of the Mind ~ and my role as one of the coaches for his team. We have been meeting for 5 hours per week for two months, and this past week it was 7 hours. Plus, I've been overseeing my son's work on the project in the evenings. Saturday is the tournament. We'll be leaving our house at 7:00 a.m. and will be at the tournament until about 5:30 p.m. Then we will be done. And I will have my life back. And perhaps I'll finally have the time and energy to read and write blogs again!


In the meantime, I don't have much to update in terms of reading. I've been reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. This is such an interesting, informative book, and I think I mentioned before that it's already changing the way we eat in my home. My book club will be discussing it on Thursday night, so I plan to finally finish it tonight or tomorrow. Then I can move on to something new!

I hope to be more vocal here on the blog next week. I have two reviews to write and an author interview to publish. And hopefully I'll have more time to go out and read your blogs and reviews. I'm sure I've missed a lot lately!

Although it's not Monday anymore, I'm linking up to It's Monday! What are you Reading? at Book Journey.
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