Life, Cleaning, Cooking and Reading (or the lack thereof)

It's been almost a month since I posted on the blog and I figure I'd better get at least one more blog post in before I pop this baby out so here's a little update on my life.

Most of my time right now is occupied in setting up the nursery and cleaning the house in preparation for our little Hobbit's arrival. The nursery is basically done.... just one more thing to hang up. I can't wait to share pictures! It's so perfectly Tolkien themed... I love it! I have freezer meals stashed away ready to go for those days when I have no time for anything but keeping the baby alive (I hear there will be a plethora of those). Everything is really pretty much ready to go yet I still feel so unprepared. The reality that it could be any day or a couple more weeks is nerve-wracking! So much about pregnancy and childbirth seems so up in the air it's hard to plan. We do the best we can though I suppose.
My reading life is suffering greatly as well. I'm trying to finish up The Pickwick Papers as I need to get going on The Way We Live Now for the Classics Club spin. I'm supposed to have it finished by the end of April for the challenge and I know I'll be quite busy in April so I'd like to at least get started on it. I'm still plugging away slowly but surely at War and Peace and I'm actually enjoying it more than I would have thought. I'm listening to the audiobook of The Mill on the Floss, which is quite long, but since I listen to it when doing dishes, cooking and cleaning I'm actually going through it fairly fast. Then of course I'm still inching my way through Mortification of Sin and God Is. Those non-fiction books always take longer. I am enjoying everything I'm reading but all of it is pretty heavy reading (The Pickwick Papers is a little lighter than the rest) so it's slower. I might need to give myself a break with something lighter here in not too long. Of course with having a baby soon I'm wondering how that is going to affect my reading life. One of my friends who just had a baby recently said that she's able to read while she nurses/pumps so I'm hopeful I'll still have some time. I know my priority will be my baby though and I'm grateful for that. The books will always be there but she won't be a baby for forever. I need to treasure every moment and I can't wait to!
So what's going on in y'all's lives?

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Classics Club Spin- March 2018

Time for another Classics Club spin! The last one got me to read Adam Bede by George Elliot, which I'm sure I would have drug out getting around to reading for the longest time if it hadn't been selected so I'm hoping this spin does the same. Check out THIS POST over at the Classics Club bog to see the rules and of course if you aren't a member of the Classics Club yet what are you even doing?!?!?!?! I have to read the book spun by April 30th which is well after my due date so I'm hoping to get it done before our little Hobbit is born.
So here's my list of books for the spin!

1. Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane by P.L. Travers
2. The 39 Steps by John Buchan 
3. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope 
4. Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson 
5. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
6. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
7. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevesky 
8. The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
10. Cyarno de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
11. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
12. Beau Geste by P.C. Wren
13. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
14. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 
15. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 
16. The Red and the Black by Stendhal 
17. The Epic of Gilgamesh 
18. Richard III by William Shakespeare 
19. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes 
20. Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

Can't wait to see what number gets spun on March 9th! 

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