Teachers in my district go back to work tomorrow. I’ve essentially been back for most of the last two weeks, but tomorrow is the real deal. It makes today bittersweet. It has been a productive summer.
I rehomed 1 dog.
I knit 1 pair of socks and 4 shawls.
And, I read or listened to 44 books. Here is the list.
- Half Lost by Sally Green
- Somewhere Among by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu
- Flawed by Cecilia Ahern
- Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whalen
- Saving Montgomery Sole by Mariko Tamaki
- The Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
- Whisper to Me by Nick Lake
- Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and its Naradarajan
- Ruined by Amy Tintera
- Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart
- Sea Change by Frank Viva
- An Armadillo in New York by Julie Kraulis
- The Seventh Wish by Kate Messner
- Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand
- Wishing Day Laura Myracle
- Us by David Nicholls
- Compass South by Hope Larson
- Summerlost by Ally Condie
- Princeless by Jeremy Whitley
- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hamma
- Prudence by Gail Carriger
- A Hero of France by Alan Furst
- The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
- Outrun the Moon by Stacy Lee
- In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III
- Imperium by Robert Harris
- Faith by Jody Houser
- Gena/Finn by Hannah Moskowitz and Kat Helgeson
- Rocks Fall Everyone Dies by Lindsey Ribar
- Grumpy Pants by Claire Messer
- The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne
- Far From Fair by Elana K. Arnold
- The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
- Every Single Second by Tricia Springstubb
- Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine
- Paper Girls vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
- The Year of Lear by James Shapiro
- Julia Vanishes by Catherine Egan
- Plumdog by Emma Chichester Clark
- Love is My Favorite Thing by Emma Chichester Clark
- Changeless by Gail Carriger
- Lucky Strikes by Louis Bayard
- I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
I’m currently knitting convertible gloves. I’ve finished one, but won’t get the second finished before tomorrow. I’m currently reading All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor.
I won’t finish it before tomorrow, either.