I had a wonderful vacation! It was so nice to see all of my family again, and I won $130 in bingo! Of course, my mom and I had agreed to split our winnings, but that’s still exciting.

I’ll be catching up with all of your comments and blog posts in the next couple of days. For now, I’d just like to point out that someone teased me about saying I was ‘only’ bringing five books for a week long vacation. Well, I ended up finishing all of them by Wednesday (I was already over halfway through Legerdemain), so when we were at Barnes & Noble, I picked up Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out. But then I finished that yesterday morning, so before my mom dropped me off at the airport she kindly brought me back to B&N where I got a biography of Mary Queen of Scots from the bargain table (I’m about two hundred pages in, and really enjoying it!) and the third in Donna Leon’s Comissario Brunetti series, Dressed For Death. Oh, and as a note to mystery series publishers, there should always be a list of the series in publication order somewhere in the book! I ended up having to go through Leon’s books one by one looking at the publication year to figure out which one was the third.

I’m not sure how I got so much reading done. I promise I spent a lot of time with family-I really only read a bit in the mornings and then for about an hour before bed, but I guess most of the books were so well written they flew by.

And now I’m off to finish Ghost Wars so I can go to the library. I decided it was worth the ten cents a day to be able to finish it, but of course I feel guilty, lol. I wasn’t allowed to renew it, which means someone has it on their hold list and is probably longingly waiting for its return. I’m soooo close, so I’ll be able to return it this afternoon. Promise!