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I’ve got a busy week ahead of me. Some of it fun. Let’s see if I can keep this short:

Monday, January 19, 2009 – No school or work today due to the MLK holiday. Right now I have a picnic lunch planned since it was too windy to do it yesterday. However, the kids may want to see a movie instead. Either way, at some point I will be on the couch reading 🙂 Of course it won’t be during 24. I have to focus on Jack Bauer and all his running, yelling glory.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 – The BIG day. My work is having an Inauguration Breakfast this morning. The menu includes a waffle bar with all the fixin’s. We’ll nosh and watch the event in HD. I won’t be able to watch all of it because today is also the first day that my photography class meets. In the evening, we have a Music Man rehearsal and I will be taking notes for production week which is four days away.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 – Work and meetings. In the evening, more rehearsal but I don’t have to attend this one so I will wait in the car with a book. I’ll be starting The Bone People tonight for my book club.

Thursday, January 22, 2009 – Work and my photography class. Tonight is my book club’s big book selection meeting for 2009. We choose the books that we will read for the rest of the year. Yikes! I want to pitch at least two books but I keep changing my mind. I think one of them will be The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti. There’s been some interest in The Gargoyle as the second but I’m not sure. Ideas? Once we decide, I will post the list.

Friday, January 23, 2009 – Nothing going on today. It will be a good day to catch-up on work stuff and any reading I need to wrap-up later this evening.

The Weekend – On Saturday my daughter and I are going to a Mommy and Me Stampin’ Up workshop. On Sunday, we are in the theatre and production week begins. This is a tough week. There are some late nights and my daughter, who is not in this show, will miss me dearly as she will only see me in the mornings until the show wraps after Superbowl weekend. My son is still recovering from his surgery so I hope he holds out okay.

What do you have planned this week?

UPDATE: This was my first challenge and I failed miserably! I only read two books on my list and I probably read only 4-6 books that were not on the list. There were quite a few books that came in for review shortly after I made this list and I felt obligated to drop what I was doing to get those reviews out.

My TBR shelf is frowning at me as I hang my head in shame.

What do they say? Better late than never? I’ve been reading everyone’s Fall Into Reading 2008 lists and you’ve all inspired me to give this challenge a try.

This is my first challenge. I know my list isn’t nearly as long as some of yours but hopefully it will keep me on track. I’m needing a little more structure these days. I’m sure there will be some review copies tossed my way between now and the end of this challenge but these are the ones that I want to read FOR SURE.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Wife in the North by Judith O’Reilly
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
~~Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched The World~~ by Vicki Myron
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
~~In The Woods~~ by Tana French (started this one but I need motivation to finish it)

So there you have it.

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