The Sunday Salon: I Get a Late Start on Middle-Grade March

     

Welcome! I'm happy you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. What is the Sunday Salon? The Sunday Salon is a place to link up and share what we have been doing during the week plus it's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

I finished three books last week. It's probably just because Garrison Keillor is old like me, but I really enjoyed his memoir, Cheerfulness. Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? told me everything I needed to know about how to make a zine. I am thinking about making one about butterflies for our naturalist group advanced training day. It was suggested that I might like to read Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell by a blogging friend who saw I'd just finished training to rescue sea turtles. It was the ideal time to read this new book by Sy Montgomery.

What I Read Last Week:

Cheerfulness by Garrison Keillor 

Whatcha Mean What's a Zine? The Art of Making Zines and Mini-Comics 

by Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell 

by Sy Montgomery

What I'm Reading Now:

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (Children's Fantasy)

Wellness by Nathan Hill (Novel)

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: A Week in Which I (Finally!) Complete the Sea Turtle Beach Patrol Training and I Become a Junior Ranger

Books I’m Worried I Might Not Love as Much the Second Time Around

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster:  Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Friday, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop

I learned about Middle Grade March this week from Lisa at Boondock Ramblings. I realize it's the middle of the month, but that feels appropriate somehow, and since I seem to be reading a lot of middle grade books anyway lately, I decided to join in. 

This year's prompts:

Read a debut novel...The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers
Read a book about an immigration or refugee story...The Other Side of the River by Alda P. Dobbs
Read a book with a one word title...Ferris by Kate DiCamillo
Read a book with an animal on the cover...A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Read a book that you feel like you missed out on...The Phantom Tollbooth

I began to list 3 Good Things every day during the pandemic. 

Here are 3 Good Things from last week.

Good Thing #1:

I'm taking a birding field trip every week

in March. So far, we have visited six different

excellent birding sites on Galveston Island.

Good Thing #2:

I saw my first White-tailed Kite.

Good Thing #3:

These Forster's Terns look concerned;

surely the sign does not apply to them? 

Weekend linkup spots are listed below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

        

I hope you will join the linkup for Sunday Salon below.