Renewal

 

I thought my azaleas were dead after our big freeze in February.

It's Easter and it's spring. Never have I felt the sense of renewal as I have this Easter, this spring, after spending a year isolated and now being fully vaccinated.

Happy Easter, everyone. Happy spring.

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (Classics Club)

Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (1001 Children's Books)

The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett (Mood-Boosting Books)

Fred Rogers: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (Mood-Boosting Books)

That Sounds Fun: The Joys of Being an Amateur, the Power of Falling in Love, and Why You Need a Hobby by Annie F. Downs

Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig (Nonfiction)

Yes, and...Daily Meditations by Richard Rohr (Daily Meditation Reading)

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Chapter-a-Day Read-Along)

The Little Book of Lent (Daily Reading During Lent)

Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion (Naturalist Book Club)

Jungle Tales by Horacio Quiroga (1001 Children's Books)

Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life With Words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge (National Poetry Month) 

I've finished my second Classics Club list and I've started my third. I have found no better way of reading the good books. Let me say that again: I have found no better way of reading the good books. These books have been read and reread over decades, even centuries. And who chooses what books to include? You do. I'm delighted I joined in 2018. I've now read 100 books I never would have read if I hadn't joined the club, including Moby Dick, War and Peace, Excellent Women, A Confederacy of Dunces, all of Jane Austen, Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us, Diary of Anne Frank, A Girl of the Limberlost, Howards End, Jeeves...so many great reads.

April is National Poetry Month. I will be reading a poem a day in April. Here is the beginning of one I love, Thanks by W. S. Merwin:

"Listen

with the night falling we are saying thank you

we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings

we are running out of the glass rooms

with our mouths full of food to look at the sky

and say thank you..."

Good Thing #1

Thank you, Anne of Head Full of Books, for posting this. 

Good Thing #2

I was happy to see this photo posted on the Instagram page of Bryan of Unfinished Person. 

Good Thing #3

Active April from Action for Happiness. I am ready for some activity. How about you?

I'm happy you found your way to the Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon is a place for us to link up and to share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

Some of the things we often talk about at the Sunday Salon:

• What was your week like?
• Read any good books? Tell us about them.
• What other bookish things did you do? 
• What else is going on in your life?

Other places where you may like to link up over the weekend are below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

My linkup for Sunday Salon is below.