Shelved earlier today for someday.
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And more books
It’s a gentle madness.
Books
A few new volumes, two of which were gifts.
Acquisitions
A few new books.
Staten Island Ferry
Image captured by my older daughter.
Three weeks have passed since we departed for our NYC adventure. Sparing my seventy-three readers a cliché about time’s passage, I will confine myself to a bemused (virtual) headshake.
Reading: I’m more than halfway through The Woman in White and 195 pages into The Magic Mountain. I had thought I would read ahead in New Grub Street, but this week, I simply kept pace with the APS Together schedule. I hope to finish Our Missing Hearts (terrific review here) over the weekend.
Latin and music: The trip, re-entry, and preparation for the upcoming concert left me a bit short of time and energy for my Latin studies, although my husband did help me drill vocabulary on our trip into Chicago last weekend. (We saw Twelfth Night at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Recommended.) The two music lessons since my return from NYC were longer to make up for the lesson lost during vacation (yes, she’s a terrific instructor), and the assignments represent greater challenges, which, coupled with band music, require a continuing commitment to regular (and extended) practice.
Perhaps if I were as strict about Latin as I am about music, I might be reading Ovid by now. Sigh.
More when time permits.
A few more
It’s 10:14, and all I have to show for my morning is a made bed, a planed and rehung door, and this post. Meh. It could be worse, I suppose.
New books
Because of the unexpectedly icy conditions, it took nearly two hours to walk just four miles this morning. An inch and a half of snow on Halloween! Many trees still have most of their leaves, so the remainder of our fall cleanup will be a wet mess. I’ll think about it tomorrow. Or Saturday.
Re-entry
A few new books.
My post-vacation “re-entry” included several naps and oversleeping the usual morning alarm twice, but I’ve mostly returned to the rhythms and routines of regular time: Following an eight-day break, I resumed music practice. (Given how well the first two sessions went, I wonder if a periodic respite might have some merit.) Following an unplanned re-read of the delightful From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (we just visited the Met; how could I not?), I am now reading my second #Victober selection, Wuthering Heights. And my Latin homework is already on my desk for tomorrow.
Acquisitions
A few new books.
Banned
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