Still have grading to get done (not quite finished wearing my teacher hat), but want that done, too, so just like when I was a kid, I can truly feel like SCHOOL'S OUT!Even though I have plenty of other work to do, there is always a sigh of relief when academic pressures abate for a time, making space to read what one wants to read under the trees, preferably with a view from a hammock.
I just read another in the series of Alexander McCall Smith's Isabel Dalhousie stories--what a delight. It makes me feel like I've taken what the Brits call a mini-break to Edinburgh, just as his No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series takes me to Botswana. If I cannot manage the real vacations just now, these novel-bound mini breaks are just the thing to make summer feel like summer should: an escape from the ordinary, a trip, a journey, an adventure.
I got a slight head start on summer, and just recently finished Woolfe's To the Lighthouse. Next up: South of Broad by Pat Conroy. I loved his Prince of Tides.
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Don't be shy; tell me what you're reading!
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