It's the middle of the month and my reading has slowed down due to real life. My daughter turned 6, we went to see Alien Ant Farm and P.O.D. at a free concert on base (thank you USO/Armed Forces Entertainment!), my husband put the paperwork in for his last re-enlistment (5 more years!), and Valentine's Day added into the normal week has me exhausted. 

I still have to finish last week's short book pick The Preacher's Promise and my short book for this week is What Lies Behind Us. I am still in chapter 3 of The Genius of Birds for my science reading - it's interesting content delivered via ASMIR (and I am reading the print version). So I hope to get something done by the end the holiday weekend (made longer by a no school day today), but I am not getting my hopes up too high.

I hope you had a good Valentine's Day and for my fellow Americans, have a good Presidents' Day weekend. My son turns 8 on Monday, so I am going back into birthday mode. May your reading be all 5 stars!

I read Corvina: The Perfect Bride (Brides of Paradise Ranch #1) by Merry Farmer and Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. I DNF'd Maisie Dobbs - I just couldn't find the energy to slog through Maisie's teen years.

My random short book this weekend is The Preacher's Promise (Home to Milford College #1) by Piper Huguley. Trying to finish The Genius of Birds and start Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage by the end of the weekend.

I've got my little one's birthday party on Sunday (we invited her entire class because I hate myself), birthday snack for her class on Tuesday (brownies, unfortunately not the fun ones), and taking her to a free concert on base Tuesday night (P.O.D. and Alien Ant Farm is touring Europe and the USO worked with the bands to play on the base on their off night). Little Miss Sassy Pants is turning 6!

This weekend my reading plans include more of Maisie Dobbs (I'm in the second part where it is all memory of her teenage years) and starting The Genius of Birds. Both are library books that I would like to read and hand back in by the end of next week. 

I have a list of 25 books that are less than 200 pages on my NOOK, so each Friday I am going to pick one and read it. This week RNG gave me a 10, which is Corvina by Merry Farmer (126 pages). 

From my physical non-fiction shelf -  Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage by Edith B. Gelles and Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and his Nation by Susan Williams.

From my science reading list - The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman and Rise of the Rocket Girls by Natalia Holt. 

From my Nixon reading list - 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky.

From my Winter COYER reading list - Radio Girls by Sarah Jane Stratford, Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson, and Master of Love by Catherine LaRoche.

From my physical fiction shelf - The Trouble with Valentine's Day by Rachel Gibson.

Library pick - Maisie Dobbs by Jaqueline Winspear.

Finally, I am doing an experiment. Every Friday, I am going to read a short book from either my NOOK or Kindle. I am using Random Number Generator to pick from a list. I will announce these picks on my Friday reads. 

Just my two cents :). I´m really looking forward to be reading some more non-fiction.