The Sunday Salon: "...small everyday deeds of ordinary folk..."

    

Welcome! I'm delighted you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. 

What is the Sunday Salon? you ask. 

The Sunday Salon is a place to link up and 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. 

What I Read Last Week:

Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy (Nonfiction November)

Star Wars: The Mandalorian (SciFi Month)

The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened by Bill McKibben (Nonfiction November)

What I'm Reading Now:

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Nonfiction November)

Ringworld by Larry Niven (SciFi Month)

It’s baack!

Jenn at Jenn's Bookshelves is pleased to announce that she will once again be 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!

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: I Choose Love

Nonfiction November 2024: Book Pairings

Destination Titles

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

I am joining the 12 Books of Christmas Challenge this year, hosted by Katie at Just Another Girl and Her Books.

The Rules

This is supposed to be a fun, stress-reducing challenge, so the rules will be minimal.

1. Tell everybody about the 12 Books of Christmas challenge (#12BooksOfXmas). 
2. Build a blog post or create a Goodreads shelf of the books you intend to read for the challenge (you can see the host's list here). You can absolutely read outside your list, if the desire strikes; this is just a starting point. Then come back and add your name to the linkup. (Be sure to visit the other participants to see what they plan on reading.) Bloggers, please link back so that others can find the challenge as well should they wish to participate. 
3. Reviews must be posted between November 24th and December 24th. The review linkup will open on November 24th. Be sure to bookmark this page so you can come back and add your reviews!
4. Any winter holiday themed books count (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc.) You can check out the books we read in 2017 by clicking here, 2018 by clicking here, 2020 by clicking here and 2022 didn't have any reviews linked because even the host failed on that score.
5. There are four achievement levels for this challenge, so read as few or as many books as you want.
6. Have fun!

I plan to read twelve of my favorite Christmas-themed picture books this year.

Vote on your favorites on this Goodreads list.

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:

How about another quilt from

the International Quilt Show in Houston?

Good Thing #2:

My husband and I went to the Houston Gem & Mineral Society Show

last week and talked to several lapidaries with their machines.

Good Thing #3:

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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.