The Sunday Salon: A Week in Which I Finally Finish (Happily) Madame Bovary in French

     

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 encourage you to link up with us, and then visit as many of the other participants as you can.

I finished reading and discussing Madame Bovary in French. If you are serious about wanting to learn French, I encourage you to join us next summer when we attempt to read and discuss another book in French. If you think, oh no, my French is awful---well, trust me, your French cannot be worse than mine! Join in. It's fun.

I loved Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. I liked Teaching a Stone to Talk.

After reading three hundred poems written by Wallace Stevens in his Collected Poems, and though I admit I am still crazy about his poems, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "The Man with the Blue Guitar," I think I will step away from Stevens for a while.

Sandwich. Read it if you like stories about family dynamics. Know going in that there are possible triggers.

What I Read Last Week:

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

The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens (Poetry)

Writers and Their Notebooks edited by Diana Raab (Writing)

Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard (Nature)

Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Fiction)

What I'm Reading Now:

Rinkitink by L. Frank Baum (Ozathon)

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Fiction)

Census by Jesse Ball (Fiction)

Jack Spratt Investigates the Big Over Easy: A Nursery Tales Crime by Jasper Fforde (Fiction)

Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life by Eric Weiner (Nonfiction)

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

Jack Spratt Investigates the Big Over Easy: A Nursery Tales Crime by Jasper Fforde

Posts I’ve Written That Give You the Best Glimpse of Me

The Sunday Salon: Book Serendipity

Two challenges left to finish...

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:

A class on making Bird-friendly Landscapes

at Osher Livelong Learning Institute (OLLI) UTMB

Good Thing #2:

A Bookcrossing science fiction bookbox

Good Thing #3:

Fish tacos 

at Lucine's in Galveston

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

        

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