Why do I feel so busy lately? Maybe because I am? This week I'll be home two nights out of 5. Work one night, but the other two are fun things: first class on playing fiddle/singing with a group, and a rehearsal with Voices of Love, my threshold choir.

Three books finished, but I'm not really commenting on these, other than to say, yes, I enjoyed them.

• Men we reaped by Jesmyn Ward, memoir of the years when she lost five young men from her generation and hometown to death.
• The burglar who counted the spoons, a Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery by Lawrence Block.
• An officer and a spy by Robert Harris, a novel about Georges Picquart and the "Dreyfus affair."