It’s that time of the week – when I sit down and figure out (roughly, sometimes very roughly!) what my week will look like. Here’s what’s on tap this week:
Monday 9/8- Following this post is a post about my latest giveaway … author Joshua
Henkin has generously offered a copy of his novel Matrimony, which was released in paperback at the end of last month. Click the link on the sidebar to enter, or just scroll up!
Tuesday 9/9 – Tuesday Thingers time! The Boston Bibliophile asks a question about our use of the features on LibraryThing; I never fail to learn new tips and tricks! Speaking of LibaryThing … have you seen my challenge to read/review more LibraryThing authors? Each book you read/review and link back to my challenge page earns you an entry into a drawing for a $20 gift card for (what else?!?) books! Click the cute LT Author Challenge graphic to get to the details.
Wednesday 9/10 – This is it! My little guy (now LM4, he just had a birthday), starts preschool today. I’ll have four mornings a week by myself. Of course I’ll spend a lot of the time running errands and doing weekly household “maintenance” like grocery shopping and cleaning, but I also want to slowly overhaul the house by “repurposing” a lot of our furniture and accessories – sometimes decorative items get stuck and stagnant in one place, so I want to shake it up a bit, a la one of those programs on HGTV. Are there any books that can help me?!?
Thursday 9/11- My TriCon book group meets tonight to discuss The Worst Hard Time. I’ll admit that I
listened to about half the book on a car trip over Labor Day weekend; I still have to finish reading the rest of it. Apparently there was a companion documentary on PBS that was excellent. I was a history major, and this is my kind of history (military history doesn’t hold my interest, but social movements, migration, growth of cities – that talks to me!)
Friday 9/12- Hmmm, I notice I didn’t commit to posting reviews on any particular day. I have several pending; that is, I’ve read the book and my review is “cooking” in my head. I’ll have a few up this week; possibilities are The Worst Hard Time, The Madonnas of Leningrad, Guernica and a couple children’s books. We’ll see what bubbles up!
Have a great week everyone! If you’d like to join us in planning the week ahead, you can grab the graphic here.
Dawn, The Worst Hard Time has been on my TBR list forever. I’ve heard nothing but good about it. Enjoy the discussion and I’ll be looking forward to your review!
Yay on you little guy starting pre-school. This is such a special time for him (and you).
I don’t have any book recommendation on HGTV type stuff but re-arranging stuff in the house is something I just love to do. I hate clutter and just finding a place for each and every thing makes my life so much easier. Have fun!
I just posted my week ahead..a tad late but my days are off.
http://bookchatterandotherstuff.blogspot.com/2008/09/week-ahead.html
Here’s my late post.
http://thethingsweread.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-past-week-and-this-week-ahead.html
Oh, how sad and exciting at the same time having your kid start pre-school. Pssst, it’s WONDERFUL having the house to yourself even if its only for a couple hours. Each of the people in my household crave that time and thoroughly enjoy the couple hours each of us gets weekly. There is nothing like having the option of doing whatever you want in your own house with no one else around.
I’ve never really gotten into true history books (non-fiction) unless the history is woven into a fiction book. Then I love it.
Redecorating – you might try the Trading Spaces series of books. (from the TV show) I have a few and they do a good job of showing you how you can use what you already have.
Shana – ugh! I’m having “scheduling difficulties” and may not be able to go to the book group. I’m going to ask the women to give me a line or two of their opinions to add to my review …
Ti – many parts are super-organized, I’m trying to figure out what do do with the abundance of papers, toys, and, yes … books!
Bree – thanks for the tip about Trading Spaces books. I may have a friend come over and look at the rooms with a “fresh” eye to give me ideas