Paper Is Heavy

I have a little over a month before I head off to Scotland until December, and I face that fact with a mingled sense of excitement and panic.  Travel problem du jour is: are my husband and I up to date on our vaccinations?  Tomorrow there will be a new travel problem.

I have started several well-meaning lists of books I want to take along with me.  I can barely go to the grocery store without a book, let alone a new country (well, actually, it's a very old country, but you know what I mean).  Space and weight will be limited, but not my frantic desire to scoop all of my books into my arms and toddle through the airport with them.  Bah.

practical religion - j.c. ryle
georgette heyer novelsa severe mercy - sheldon vanaukensin and salvation - lesslie newbiginthe mind of the maker - dorothy sayersmoonblood - anne elisabeth stengl

These are the current runners-up in the list of books to be taken.  The Mind of the Maker is a reread and may or may not make it into the suitcase.  I might take it along and read it aloud to my husband: we'll see.  I'm currently reading Practical Religion, but it is massive and I doubt I will finish it in the month of August.  We will see about that also.

I just blazed through The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer and loved it!  Abigail heard about it from someone, and I noticed Anne Elisabeth Stengl was in the habit of enjoying Heyer's works, so I borrowed Abigail's copy of The Grand Sophy and shot through it in under a week.  Stitches! hilarity!  I loved it!  I'm almost ashamed to say I enjoyed it more than Jane Austen, in a way...  So I put in an order for a few more and hopefully I will have the sense and will-power to not devour all of them in August.

Rachel Heffington keeps pestering me (politely) to read A Severe Mercy, and I'm looking forward to packing it up with me to take to Scotland.  I have enjoyed Lesslie Newbigin's writing, and my copy of Sin and Salvation is hardback and looks sturdy: just the sort of little book to take along on a trip.

I'll have to tell you in September what I really wind up taking.

having said all this, I will now flee from procrastination and the wrath to come, and continue working on gingerune