Actually, I have finished two books but just haven’t had a chance to do a little write up on them. I’ll post on those soon though because they really were very enjoyable reads. Don’t want to be in suspense? Well, it was A Fatal Grace and Playing with the Moon. I promise, more on those soon.

Still I’ve fallen very behind on my book group reads and my challenge reads. I haven’t even started The Armchair Traveler challenge! So this weekend I hope to get ahead in some books.

Here’s my reading stack for the weekend:

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (for one of my book groups)
• Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick (for the Slaves of Golconda)
• The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard (for the Summer Mystery Reading challenge) – This one I have started and it’s very good.

Let’s hope I don’t get too distracted by other books. Have a happy weekend.

I’ve had a pretty hectic week at work but tonight was yoga night and it was exactly what I needed. So good and relaxing. After class I just came home and not wanting to break that spell of relaxation, I started reading some poetry. I need to remember to do this more often.
Here is one of the poems I especially enjoyed this evening.

Selecting A Reader
by Ted Kooser

First, I would have her be beautiful,
and walking carefully up on my poetry
at the loneliest moment of an afternoon,
her hair still damp at the neck
from washing it. She should be wearing
a raincoat, an old one, dirty
from not having money enough for the cleaners.
She will take out her glasses, and there
in the bookstore, she will thumb
over my poems, then put the book back
up on its shelf. She will say to herself,
“For that kind of money, I can get
my raincoat cleaned.” And she will.

Poem is from the Poetry 180 collection.