…and doing the I’m back dance!  I swear, the universe must have decided that March and April would be Eva’s Great Trial, lol.  First, my laptop needed more help than the computer people originally thought, and by the time it was ready for pick-up in Denver (where I don’t live), I had gotten really sick.  And my mom had a big project due, so she needed the only laptop in the house a lot.  And since I was sick, I was sleeping around sixteen hours a day (welcome to life with a chronic illness!).  But all of that’s behind us now…I’m currently typing on my laptop (how I’ve missed her), and I shall be catching up with blog-reading shortly.  I have been reading, but not nearly as much as before, because I’ve been working extra-hard on my Russian (I can’t believe I leave for grad school in about three months!).  This is a good thing, though, because maybe I’ll be able to catch up with my backlog of reviews.  Anyway, I’ll be updating my Books Read and Current Challenges pages today, and hopefully I’ll get another post up tonight.  I just wanted to let everyone know that regular blogging will resume now (my visitor count is down so low right now, it makes me sad).  To the giveaway winners: your books will be in the mail tomorrow.  Sorry about the long delay!  And I received another book from a BAFAB contest during my blogger silence period, Juxtabook was kind enough to send me Small Talk with All Change Here by Naomi Mitchison all the way from England! She explained in her beautiful card that Mitchison is a famous writer who lived to be over 100. She sounds just fascinating, and this book combings two memoirs: Small Talk, which is “memoiries of an Edwardian childhood within an extended family with homes in Oxford, Edinburgh, and the Scottish highlands,” and All Change Here, which looks at how “girlhood and marriage bring new freedoms, joys and conflicts to the story. The young woman’s skills as a writer, and the strong self knowledge which carried her through her unique life, begin to reveal themselves against the backdrop of the First World War. Yay for another book for the In Their Shoes Challenge!

In other news, I’ve decided to postpone my challenge: I have a really long post typed up all about it, and was going to run it this summer. But between preparing for grad school, a trip to NY for my grandparents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary, and moving across the country, I don’t think I’ll have the time to host it the way I want to. So, I might do it this winter, or next year.

I think that’s about it for now: I have 781 posts in my Google Reader for book blogs, which is pretty intimidating. But I’ve really missed you all, so if you find random comments on old posts, you’ll know why. I just hope that I haven’t been gone too long to stage a comeback, lol.