Work’s Done! and Reading …

I finished my deadline yesterday (on time, thank goodness!), and it definitely felt good getting that huge stack of papers off my desk. All your kind comments were very helpful, and I particularly loved Joanne’s comment that the photo of the huge pile of papers looked just gorgeous. I started thinking, you know, if that was my own manuscript I was talking about, it wouldn’t be a bad thing at all.

Sometimes, just a slight shift in perspective can do wonders.

After I finished up the deadline yesterday, I found that all I wanted to do was snuggle into the sofa with a comfortable book – which to me always means, a book I’ve read before.

I decided on The Year of Living Famously, by Laura Caldwell. I read it a few years back and enjoyed it enough that it’s always been difficult to put it on the “books to give away” pile. To my slight disappointment, though, the book didn’t hold up as well on a second reading (unlike Elegance, by Kathleen Tessaro, which I read again late last year and enjoyed as much as the first time I’d read it). Still, it felt comfortable, and that was exactly what I needed.

Now I’m ready to dive back into Deborah Crombie’s Kissed a Sad Goodbye, Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and Laurie King’s The Language of Bees. Or I might do another re-reading of Elegance … it’s a long weekend around here (Happy Victoria Day to my fellow Canadians!) and I’m getting that drowsy, comfortable long-weekend kind of feeling …

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