Currently | 9 November

Eating and Drinking // Hazelnut Cappuccino and Banana Bread. Yum.

Doing // Today I am cuddling with the Goose who has a cold; then I am cleaning out the spare bedroom (soon to be Baby #2's room). We have been using the room for storage as, up until this Fall's garage construction, we had no attic. The room is a hot mess of garage sale items, baby stuff, clothes that no longer fit, books, and the such not. Also, I have been using that room's closet as a second closet for me as the one in my room is just too small to contain all of my clothes. My purses are also in that closet, along with picture albums and books (books are everywhere in my house).

Blogging // I'm loving Nonfiction November, and the event has certainly upped my post count. This past week, I shared my love of the book Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit and reflected on my non-fiction reading so far this year. I also participated in Top Ten Tuesday with a list of books I want to re-read, which seriously for me is pretty much All The Books as I love to re-read.

I know, your're thinking that three posts in one week is not much, but seriously for me lately, that's a lot. Plus I have more posts already scheduled. Nonfiction November week 2 for me has a post on Freak Shows and a post on Original Fairy Tales. Next week I also have my review of Blue Lily, Lily Blue ready to go and a look at my Victorian Reading possibilities for Classics Club.

In the coming weeks, I have reviews of Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and Julie Schumacher's Dear Committee Members scheduled along with Nonfiction November weeks 3 and 4 posts. Plus, I just finished Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and I'm almost done with The Martian by Andy Weir (ON AUDIO CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?).

Anticipating // The countdown has begun for the start of my Graduate Studies in Literary Theory course and since they released Week 1's Module, I've of course already started - finished the reading and jotted down some notes for the assignment. If i get awesome, which I hope to, I will be posting my (mildly formalized) notes and thoughts about course content here on the blog.