The Sunday Salon: The 40th Classics Club Spin and a Giveaway!

 

 

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. 

We spent last weekend up in East Texas in order to see our granddaughter Annie play basketball. We reserved a tiny house just seven miles from our son's house, and it turned out to be a lovely building. 

Unfortunately, it was located in the parking lot of what is apparently the most popular restaurant in East Texas.

The restaurant features karaoke on Friday night, our first night there, and a live band on Saturday night, our second night there. There was a special parking area for motorcycles right outside our door. 

Tiny house with motorcycle parking next to it.

Live band on Saturday night.

Let's just say we won't be staying there again.

Annie's team won big, though. Happy day!

What I Read Last Week:

Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright

(Link takes you to my review of this important book)

What I'm Reading Now:

Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (Fiction)

Roots by Alex Haley (Chapter-a-Day)

Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces that Make Us Who We Are by Bill Sullivan (NF)

The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett (Fantasy)

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Children's Mystery)

"Read the best books first, 

or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

                ---Thoreau

The Classics Club has issued the announcement of the 40th Classics Club Spin.

What is the spin?

It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday, February 16th, create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.

This is your Spin List.

You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the spin period.

On Sunday February 16th, The Classics Club will post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List by Sunday, April 11th. 

Let's see who can make it the whole way and finished their spin book!

I only have four classics to go to complete my Classics Club list. Let's see where the needle stops.

So here is my list.

#1, 5, 9, 13, 17.          #2, 6, 10, 14, 18.         #3, 7, 11, 15, 19.           #4, 8, 12, 16, 20.

GIVEAWAY!

Author Deborah Lawrenson sent me a copy of The Secretary from England last week. I really don't read spy novels. Who would like to read this book and review it for her? I will be happy to mail it to someone in the US, if you will note in the comments that you'd like to do this. If more than one person would like to do so, I'll throw your names into the random number selector.

Here's a little bit about the book:

Moscow, 1958. At the height of the Cold War, secretary Lois Vale is on a deep-cover MI6 mission to identify a diplomatic traitor. She can trust only one man: Johann, a German journalist also working covertly for the British secret service. As the trail leads to Vienna and the Black Sea, Lois and Johann begin an affair but as love grows, so does the danger to Lois.

A tense Cold War spy story told from the perspective of a bright, young, working-class woman recruited to MI6 at a time when men were in charge of making history and women were expendable.

Monday Mailbox is back! 

Monday Mailbox is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.

It is now hosted at I'd Rather Be at the Beach.

Vicki would love to have you join in.

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

Torrijas: Spanish French Toast

All the Love Stories You Could Ever Want: Eleven Posts I've Written About Love and Books

The Sunday Salon: Winter Birdwatching on the Bluewater Highway

Pleased to Meet Me by Bill Sullivan

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 fun it was to watch 

granddaughter Annie

play basketball last weekend!

Good Thing #2:

Our seeds are in the soil.

Good Thing #3:

Lego Ideas:

Books Are My Passion.

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.