The End of My Spring 2020 To-Do List

What a different world we're in now from the one in the beginning of March when I made my list of things I'd like to do this spring.  Still, life goes on.  So let's take a look at the things I did -- and didn't -- accomplish over the past three months, shall we?

Book and movie titles are linked to my reviews, where applicable, as per usual.  All photographs in this post are my own, many of which are from my Instagram account.

~ Finish revising One Bad Apple and be close to publishing it  Check!  I am in the editing stage now, polishing the manuscript and preparing to format it.  I expect to release this book on July 28.  I'll be giving away some advance copies and setting up a virtual book tour starting in June, so keep an eye out for those announcements.

~ Read 3 titles for my Classics Club list  Check!  I read:

• The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
• The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.  

I only have three books to go to complete my second list of fifty classics!


~ Read 9 books off my TBR shelves  Check!  I read fourteen :-o  I was already concentrating on reading more books I already owned before the whole COVID-19 self-seclusion thing, but having the library closed meant that I couldn't be too distracted from this goal!  I read:

• If Death Ever Slept by Rex Stout
• The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
• Befriending the Beast by Amanda Tero
• Mary Russell's War by Laurie R. King
• A Table by the Window by Hillary Manton Lodge
• The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
• Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway by David Rigby
• Reservations for Two by Hillary Manton Lodge
• And Four to Go by Rex Stout
• Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit by Amy Stewart
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Five Seasons of Angel edited by Glenn Yeffeth (review to come)
• Forty Aces and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet (review to come)
• Hamlet adapted by Richard Appignanesi and illustrated by Emma Vieceli (review to come)

~ Read 2 books from the library  Check!  Even though the library has been closed since mid-March, I had gotten several books out just before it closed, so I managed to read Together at the Table by Hillary Manton Lodge and Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero by Cate Lineberry .

~ Watch 5 movies off my TBW shelves  Check!  I watched The Canterville Ghost (1944), My Man Godfrey (1936), Arizona (1940), No Name on the Bullet (1959), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), and Backlash (1956).

~ Go see Call of the Wild  Fail.  Because the theaters closed :-(

~ Go see the new Emma  Check!  I managed to see this with my mom one of the last weekends the movie theaters were open!  Here are my thoughts on it.

~ Go see Black Widow  Fail.  Because the theaters closed :-(

~ Go see The Green Knight  Fail.  Because the theaters closed :-(

~ Try my hand at making a "book nook" bookshelf insert  Check!  I wrote a whole post about how it turned out.

~ Finish the blanket I'm crocheting for my 8-yr-old's bed  Fail.  It's about half done.  Pretty sure I'll finish it before she needs it this fall.

~ Re-pot one of our blueberry bushes before its current container falls completely apart Check!

~ Repaint the main floor bathroom  Fail.  And now it's pretty humid again, so this may have to wait until this fall, we'll see.

How about you?  Were you able to finish a project, meet a goal, or accomplish a task you set for yourself, despite our current limitations?  I hope so!