The Sunday Salon: Playing Reading Catch-Up

     

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. 

East Texas

I've been home a week, and I'm still dragging around. I don't know if it was the feeding and watering of the chickens and turkeys and rabbits and parakeets and horses or if it's the aftereffects of whatever virus (was it Covid at long last?) I had around the middle of July or if it's tiredness after the hurricane (the fence behind us belonging to the neighbors is still down and there are still blue roofs around town). Or if it's a bit of all three...

It *is* beautiful, though...

Since I read nothing over the ten days that I spent taking care of chickens and enjoying my grandchildren, it should not be surprising that I finished a couple of books this week, and that I began or continued to read on several more.

What I Read Last Week:

Writing on Empty by Natalie Goldberg

The Backyard Bird Chonicles by Amy Tan

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr

What I'm Reading Now:

Madame Bovary (in French) by Gustave Flaubert (Classic)

North Woods by Daniel Mason (Fiction)

The Complete Poems by Wallace Stevens (Poetry)

Writers and Their Notebooks edited by Diana Raab (Writing)

Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard (Nature)

100 of the Greatest Posters of Celebrities Urging You to Read (Lit Hub)

I spent wayyy too much time looking at all these old READ posters, mostly created by the American Library Association. Oprah. Levar Burton. Jason Reynolds. I would love to own them all.

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: Back from Chicken-sitting

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The Eleven Best Books Featuring Travel

I began to list 3 Good Things every day during the pandemic. Now I've established a regular routine of writing down my 3 Good Things. Here are 3 Good Things from last week:

Good Thing #1:

These gorgeous flowers were everywhere

at my son's house in East Texas. 

iNaturalist says they are Purple Passionflowers.

Good Thing #2:

The park where we do our butterfly monitoring 

has finally reopened after the hurricane,

so we counted butterflies for the first time in over a month.

The hurricane and the heat really did a number on the park.

Grand total of butterflies seen? Four.

Good Thing #3:

Coffee shakes at Star Drug Store in Galveston last week!

Something to beat the heat!

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