The Sunday Salon: An Encounter with the Sheriff, a Flood, Two Wonderful Thanksgiving Gatherings, and the Thankfully Reading Weekend

     

Welcome! I am delighted that 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. It's also a great opportunity to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

My nephew Randal fried the turkey for us in East Texas.

We had two wonderful Thanksgiving get togethers, one up in East Texas and one down here close to home. We had an unexpected visit from a county sheriff (we accidentally set off the alarm; situation easily resolved) and a refrigerator ice maker that flooded the kitchen while we went out to eat (resolved, but with a lot of effort) while we were in East Texas, but otherwise everything went smoothly and we devoured fried turkey and stuffing and green bean casserole and pecan pie and homemade rolls and cranberry sauce and visited and laughed at both Thanksgivings. Truly a delight.

What I Read Last Week:

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (SciFi Month)

What I'm Reading Now:

Orbital: A Novel by Samantha Harvey (Booker Prize Winner)

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Nonfiction November)

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: Enjoying an Early Thanksgiving with Family

Nonfiction November 2024: New to My TBR

Thankful!

It’s baack!

Jenn at Jenn's Bookshelves is hosting Thankfully Reading Weekend, November 27-December 1st (Wednesday through Sunday)!

New to Thankfully Reading Weekend? Here are the details:

There are no rules to the weekend. We’re simply hoping to devote a good amount of time to reading, and perhaps meeting some of our reading challenges and goals for the year. We thought it’d be fun if we cheered each other on a bit. 

If you think you can join in, grab the logo  and add your sign up post to the link-up here.  Include the link to where you’ll be posting your updates (Instagram, Threads, etc).  Jenn personally will be updating most on Instagram.

The official hashtag we’ll be using is #thankfullyreading. Join in for the weekend or for only a single day. No rules, no pressure!

It's time to start signing up for the 2025 Nonfiction Reader Challenge, hosted by Book'd Out. 

"We Can't Keep Waiting for Our Leaders to Save Us"

by Margaret Renkl

in the New York Times.

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:

We celebrated my birthday with our friends

at Gaido's in Galveston.

Good Thing #2:

Creamy Chicken Tortellini Soup,

(I used turkey),

from JoAnn's blog,

Gulfside Musing

Good Thing #3:

A lily on my dad's pond in East Texas.

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.

Thankful!

 

I am thankful for:

Row 1. My new blue bicycle. Our butterfly monitoring project. The junk journaling class. Seeing old friends Krista and George. A new Little Free Library. A flat tire that was easily fixed.

Row 2. My husband's successful hand surgery. Swimming at the new city rec center. Visiting my sister in her new home in Waco. Enjoying the Yamberee with my grandkids Annie and Wyatt. My Aunt Karen teaches me to sew. We go hiking with g-grandaughter Lucy.

Row 3. The International Quilt Festival. Making tie-dyed shirts with family. 50th anniversary party for friends Mac and Karen. Surprise 50th anniversary party for family/friends Linda and Tony. First sighting of a Vermillion Flycatcher. Bigfoot water toy with Annie and Wyatt. Celebrating birthdays with the Breakfast Mamas.

Row 4. Readalong in French. Spending time with my Galveston friends Cindy and Lori. The full moon. Lucy's second birthday. Inprint author reading with Richard Powers. Butterflies of Camp Mohawk 'zine. Christmas Bird Count.

Row 5. OLLI writing class. First time I saw an owl. My Chicago family. Jazz concert at Rae's Reads. Annie plays basketball.

Row 6. Vegetables from our garden. Whooping cranes on a birding outing to the mid-Texas Gulf Coast. Hurricane Beryl spares us. Baby Pileated Woodpeckers in our sycamore tree. Celebrating Black History Month with picture books. Learning to care for sea turtles with our friends Mac and Karen at Padre Island National Seashore.

“I think that (giving thanks) is one of the most important things that there is. 'Eucharisteo' in Greek is 'thanksgiving.”

                           ― Fred Rogers, Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.   

Nonfiction November 2024: New to My TBR

Week 5 (11/25-11/29)

New To My TBR: 

It's been a month full of amazing nonfiction books!

Which ones have made it onto your TBR?

Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book! Hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz (moi).

Here are the books I am adding to my TBR:

Bibliomaniac by Robin Ince, recommended by Adventures in Reading, Running, and Working from Home.

Travels with a Writing Brush: Classic Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho, edited by Meredith McKinney, recommended by Words and Peace.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: An Extraordinary New Journey Through History's Greatest Treasures by Bettany Hughes, recommended by Musings of a Literary Wanderer.

Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi, recommended by Volatile Rune.

Chicago: City on the Make by Nelson Algren, recommended by Typings.

Parisian Days by Banine, recommended by Literary Potpourri.

The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris, One Ingredient at a Time by Jane Bertch, recommended by Hopewell's Public Library of Life.

Tokyo Travel Sketchbook by Amala Arrazola, recommended by Shoe's Seeds and Stories.

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford, recommended by Intrepid Angeleno.

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, recommended by Gulfside Musing.

A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd, recommended by Literary Potpourri.

The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King, recommended by What Me Read.

Unquiet Women by Max Adams, recommended by Bookfever.

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan, recommended by Based on a True Story, NancyElin, and Joy's Book Blog.

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney, recommended by Lisa Notes.

Rewrite Your Life: Discover Your Truth Through the Healing Power of Fiction by Jessica Lurley, recommended by Notes in the Margin.

Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative, recommended by Simple Tricks and Nonsense.

The Life List by Kate Christie, recommended by Based on a True Story.

Kokoro: Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well-Lived by Beth Kempton, recommended by Shoe's Seeds and Stories.

Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing by Olga Mecking, recommended by Shoe's Seeds and Stories.

Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart, recommended by Joy's Book Blog and The Book Stop.

This Is What It Sounds Like: A Legendary Producer Turned Neuroscientist on Finding Yourself Through Music by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas, recommended by Head Subhead.

Around the World in 80 Plants by Jonathan Drori, recommended by Reading, Writing, Working, Playing.

An Immense World by Ed Yong, recommended by marietoday.

World of Rot: Learn About All the Wriggly, Slimy, Super-Cool Decomposers We Couldn't Live Without by Britt Crow-Miller, recommended by Market Garden Reader.

Tamed: Ten Species that Changed Our World by Alice Roberts, recommended by Bookfever.

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty, recommended by Adventures in Reading, Running, and Working from Home.

Around the World in 80 Birds by Mike Unwin, recommended by Unsolicited Feedback.

Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year Through Japan's 72 Seasons by Lev Parikian, recommended by Market Garden Reader.

Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand by Jeff Chu, recommended by Enter the Enchanted Castle.

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie, recommended by Unsolicited Feedback.

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong, recommended by She Seeks Nonfiction.

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, recommended by Head Subhead.

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt, recommended by Lisa Notes.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber, recommended by She Seeks Nonfiction.

Ultra-Processed People: Why We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food...And Why We Can't Stop? by Chris van Tulliken, recommended by BooksPlease.

What new-to-you nonfiction did you discover this November?

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