Despite this being a short work week it has seem endless. I’ve been busy at work and have had to run errands in the evenings so I am now ready to celebrate Friday and the beginning of what I hope will be a relaxing weekend.

I want to catch up on my reading. Aside from Emma, I’m also reading The Far Cry by Emma Smith and Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott. Other books that are clamoring for my attention are The Street of Crocodiles for the Slaves discussion and Snow by Orhan Pamuk for my foreign authors book group.

Maybe I’ll take a book with me to the bookstore tonight although I have a feeling the lure of new magazines will be too strong to resist. My husband and I haven’t had our usual date night at the bookstore in quite a while what with the holiday madness so I’m looking forward to camping out in the café until they kick us out when they close. I want to wander up and down the aisles of the fiction and mystery sections and who knows I may even take a peek over at the music section.

It’s time to head out to the bookstore now. Hope your weekend is off to a great start too!

Thanks to my mom who picked out the numbers for the drawing, the winners of the library pocket books are:

Stephanie from The Written Word
Sara from Libromancy
Maggie from Maggie Reads

Congratulations! I hope you enjoy these. Send me an email with your address and I’ll get these little books out to you. I do love making little books to give away which means I should think of more contests. Granted that would mean I need to work faster. Yikes.

Know why else a drum roll is needed today? I have started Emma by Jane Austen. I’ve only read one Jane Austen book (Northanger Abbey) so this is big news. Also, it’s my first book for the Classics Challenge. Only 45 pages into it and I am thoroughly enjoying it.