VACATION FROM READING?????

[rapa]

This is a busy time of year with graduations, weddings, yard work, Spring cleaning (ugh) ....you name it!  So-o what's everyone doing???

Our daughter from Virginia has been here the past week.  Much fun having her all to ourselves! She stopped on her way to Phoenix to see her children and granddaughters.

What's keeping y'all busy??????????

 

[Ursula]

Ironically I'm in Virginia visiting an old friend from high school days.  I have spent several days visiting DC, but there is never enough time to see it all.  Heading home Wednesday evening, but today we're heading to Annapolis.

[Gloria Helmer / Datsunlvr]

I just finished editing the book I wrote last fall for the NANOWRIMO event in November.... Well, that and I've been painting again.

[Mandy Muffin]

I had to close up my winter home in Florida and  head north to Kentucky, as my new granddaughter, Abigail, was born 6 weeks early.  She is at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, where she is getting the best of care. 

I am now reading "The Scars" by William Tennant, an English E-book that is rich with emotion and angst.  It takes place in an English private school, where a teacher lost his wife on his wedding day then encounters weird co-workers, abused children and a host of other problems.  It is available from Amazon for 99c cents.  Plan to read "Under the Dome" by Stephen King next.  I passed on the book a couple of years ago, dreading the 1,000 pages, but as they are making it into a TV movie, I thought I'd read it. 

[Carci]

Mandy, Stephen King has a way of drawing you into his books.  Under The Dome has over 1000 pages but they seemed like 1/2 of that as the story flew by. His plots are so interesting and the characters are so real...

I'm hoping that we can get this up north next week because we are not always able to get CBS...  we use a roof antenna up there and CBS is highly unpredictable.

It seems like this is a 13 episode series not just a one night movie.

[rapa]

Laughing, Lynn, as can imagine that going home after work, the last thing you want to do is open a book!!!

YAY, for your approaching summer break!!!! 

[Lip Service]

Have been buried in work.
It won't let up until the end of July

[officerripley]

Much to my disappointment (much rather be reading), laundry, housework, groc. shopping.  I keep trying to talk Hubby into moving someplace smaller--not too small, just smaller than the 1 acre we're on now so less work--but he says he'll have to be carried feet-first outa here, oh well.

[Carci]

In between reading 5 books in the last 2 weeks, I have been gardening. It's that time of year when we plant  annuals in the flower beds both here at home and up north at the cottage and also clean out a heavy leaf cover from last winter.  Thankfully we are both still healthy enough to do that altho we do pay the price in sore muscles and aching backs. 

It may sound like there is no time left to read but Jerry & I are finding more & more that we just don't care for most of what's on TV even with loads of Cable channels so it usually goes off in the evening and we read.  Especially when we are up north where we have a roof antenna and most of the time we only get 2 channels, ABC & FOX... sometimes CBS. On rare occasions when all the atmospheric pressure, wind, cloud cover and God only knows what else all fall in perfect alignment we sometimes get about a dozen channels from all over... but we haven't figured out yet what makes that happen...  LOL

I'll post the books I've read recently under the May reading discussion. :)

 

[Slopok]

We just returned home from visiting the newest granddaughter in North Carolina (pretty sure this is the last GC). Off, this coming weekend, to spend  a day or two (Memorial Day) with my sister. Then a couple of weeks in June with the closest Granddaughters for swimming lessons. Hopefully then a few days diving in the Keys. All the while,hopefully, doing the gardening (tomatoes, beans, squash, ect) and yard work.

[Ioruach]

Yes, gardening, cutting the grass and outdoor activities all cut into reading time, but darned if I'm going to stop.  There will always be time for reading even if it means letting the grass or weeds grow a little bit. 

I just started The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll. Maybe it's a little heavy for Summer reading, but interesting, nevertheless.  It looks at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and the search for the Higgs boson.

[Flowergram]

Yard work , grass mowing, and life.  Glad you got to see your daughter.  Stay busy.LOL  I am getting less reading done.  Just finished a Jack Reacher book that was one of his early books that I have missed reading.  I am now reading The Poachers Son by Paul Doiron - someone from here suggested it and I wish to thank them for I really like his writing.  Next on the shelf - I have Louise Penny's - A Fatal Grace.  Cannot get through life without the enjoyment of reading.

[tnbopeep]

Pretty much the same stuff for me - gardening, mowing, getting g'kids out of school for the summer. Haven't gotten the pontoon boat out yet - between rain, cool weather, and all the crap floating in the lake, it just hasn't seemed the right time. Maybe this week?

I'm reading The Girls of Atomic City, that I learned about here!! A non-fiction about the building, recruitment, and development of the A Bomb in Oatk Ridge TN. Really fascinating - some of it I knew but most I didn't.