The weekend has flown by and I feel like I didn’t accomplish much. Saturday I decided to sort of get my studio ready for some major bookbinding as this time of the year starts my “busy” season and I realized I was out of some of my favorite papers and a couple of other supplies.

So, today I ran to Paper Source to stock up on the birds print and I found another floral print I quite liked. They have such gorgeous papers there that I wish I could take a sheet of each.

Anyway, I guess this week I’ll be running to some of the craft stores as well to get a few other supplies that I still need.

What else, well our weekly outing to the bookstore was not as fun given that they had the A/C on full blast and the coffee machine was broken! So we didn’t stay too long although I did grab the latest edition of Art Journaling magazine – yay.

Last but not least I’ve been thinking about Carl’s R.I.P. Challenge. I know I’m kind of behind but I’ve participated in this every year I think so I can’t pass up on it. So tonight I’m planning to spend sometime looking through my bookshelves and putting together a list of spooky books. I’m still not sure which Peril I’ll participate in and given that I’m late to the game I’ll probably go for Peril 2 or Peril 3 but I’ll let you know tomorrow.

Hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend!

Because I may not get a chance to review all the books I read while on vacation (some details are already fuzzy) I thought at least I should list out the books. So here are the stories that held my attention:

• The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
• The Salinger Contract by Adam Langer
• Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
• The Ninth Girl by Tami Hoag
• The Boy In the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
• Five Days by Douglas Kennedy
• The Stranger You Know by Andrea Kane
• Six Years by Harlan Coben
• The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown
• The Bookstore by Deborah Meyler
• The Mouse-Proof Kitchen by Saira Shah

I also read a couple of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen after I visited the H.C. Andersen museum in Odense (I was so inspired by this fabulous museum). So a bit of variety and some books in translation which is always a good thing. Some books I enjoyed more than others and in case you are wondering, my top three books would be The Chemistry of Death, Salinger Contract and Excellent Women.

Let me know if you read some of these and what you thought. Alright, I hope you have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you in blogland!