The Sunday Salon: I Sense a Theme: Reading The Fun Habit and Awe and Joyful

 

What I Read Last Week:

Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life 

by Dacher Keitner

Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness 

by Ingrid Fetell Lee

The Fun Habit: How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life 

by Mike Rucker

So...you decide. Want to change your life? Transform your life? Or create extraordinary happiness?

Then you can choose whether you want to study everyday wonder or look for the power of ordinary things or pursue joy and wonder. 

Or, like some of us, do all of these...

I am sensing that folks are feeling a little low in the world, and that authors are moving in to help us out.

What I'm (Still) Reading:

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (Classic)

The Little Book of Lent: Daily Reflections from the World's Best Spiritual Writers (Spirituality)

A Thirsty Land: The Fight for Water in Texas by Seamus McGraw (Naturalist Book Club)

The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien (Classic)

A Country Year by Sue Hubbell (Nature Nonfiction)

George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes (Biography)

Last week I posted here at Readerbuzz:

Authors in Cars Getting Coffee: The Bookish-est People I’d Like To Meet

The Sunday Salon: The Poet X and How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson: Friday Book Friends: Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Fridays, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop 

My sister and her husband and my husband and I are making our way through The Hobbit Trilogy and The Lord of the Rings (extended version) Trilogy during our Sunday afternoon movie and pizza time. 

Favorite moment so far...

Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

My first class at UTMB/OLLI this spring was a fantastic memoir and personal essay writing class. My second class will be a writing class in the style of Natalie Goldberg, and it starts in Galveston next week.

Good Thing #1

American Poet Laureate Ada Limón

at Inprint Houston

this week.

More on this in a future post...

Good Thing #2

I bought a single Blackwing Matte pencil 

in a bookstore in Montana last summer ($1.99),

and I wished ever since that I'd bought more.

Last week I broke down and bought a box of twelve.

Good Thing #3

This blue-eyed boy will turn four next week.

We are off to Big Sandy

to help Wyatt celebrate.

I'm happy you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon is a place 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?

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