Mo Willems Goes to Paris

I gloried in West Texas last week. I wrote. I read. I wrote some more. I explored Alpine and Marfa. I spent some time at the Sul Ross University Library, taking a close look at their children's books. I ate some wonderful food at Penny's Diner in Alpine and Squeeze in Marfa and La Casita in Alpine. I visited the Marfa Public Library and the Alpine Public Library and Marfa Book Company and Front Street Books. And I read. And I wrote.

I'll be posting about my West Texas adventures soon.

For now, let's spend a little more time in Paris in July....

Something happened to me when I went to Paris. I'm forever changed. I don't know what it is, but it seems to have happened to Mo, too.  Look at this photo, cette image. Quite the dapper gentleman, isn't he? Look at those glasses, des lunettes. That beard, une barbe. And what a jacket, une veste. His books, ses livres. Oo la la. A changed man.

What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them,and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....That's what happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual. Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book. Click here to join the Salon.

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