For those of you celebrating, best wishes for a Happy Mother’s Day! I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the holiday tomorrow, but there are no particular plans for it around here. My gift to myself will be a clean house, which I’ll finish working on this morning; then we’re off to the movies to see Thor (the dad’s pick, to be honest, but I’ve been warming up to it – and it’s based on a comic book that’s based on Norse mythology, so that’s bookish, right?). My stepkids will be returning to their mom’s house a couple of hours early tonight, which seems appropriate for the day.
I’ve just started reading A Canticle for Leibowitz for the next Faith & Fiction Roundtable discussion, but I will be very surprised if I’m done with it before the discussion starts. I’m already intrigued, though. Have you read it? Care to share any (spoiler-free!) thoughts or impressions?
May will turn out to be a big month for planned reading. In addition to FnFRT, I’ve got a book-tour post scheduled for the first of June – a book that’s a change of pace for me, as it’s from my guilty-pleasure genre and I don’t indulge in that very often. Another tour is scheduled for mid-June, but the book is a chunkster and I want to get an early start on it. Besides those, I’ve also received the galleys for my first two reviews for Shelf Awareness’ new Consumer edition, which will be due by early June as well. I’m actually looking forward to my long plane rides to New York for BEA/BBC in a couple of weeks, as they should provide some excellent – and necessary – reading time!
I know my commitment to two reviews per month for Shelf Awareness is going to be a big factor in my reading plans going forward, but I hope that in another month or two I’ll be able to fit in more books that don’t require reviews (although they’ll get them anyway, since that remains the founding principle of this blog!).
