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.
Some of those who gathered
last week to celebrate
the sixth birthday of grandson Wyatt
(center front, with football)
and the visit of son Ben and his wife Lisa from Chicago
(center back).
A wonderful time was had by all.
Especially me.
What I Read Last Week:
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns (Fiction)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (SciFi)
What I'm Reading Now:
On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Katmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer by Rick Steves (Nonfiction)
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert (Creativity)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fiction)
Claudine: A Fairy Tale for Exceptional Grownups by Marian Grudko (Paris Picture Book)
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Essays)
If you teach poetry or write poetry or just love poetry, I urge you to check out Vidya at Lady in Read Writes' index of posts about poetry. You will never run out of ideas of poetry forms to try!
What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:
Books on My Spring 2025 to-Read 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:
Laminated four-leaf clovers
from a friend.
Good Thing #2:
Sadly, I missed the library sale at
the public library in Galveston
last weekend,
but I was delighted to discover
that all the leftover books were free
this week.
I brought home four boxes of books.
Good Thing #3:
Paris in springtime?
I wouldn't miss it!
Lisa at Bookdock Ramblings
and Erin at Still Life, with Cracker Crumbs
are hosting another film watching event for springtime.
It is six weeks, six movies, and very easy going!
If you want to watch one or all or a few,
they would love to have you join in.
Just watch along and comment on their posts
or post your own thoughts and link up!
Four leaf clovers are so neat… my sister can just look at a patch of grass and she’ll see one and pick it. My daughter is the same. But I can stare all day and never see one. Very odd.
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Have a great week, and thanks for hosting…. mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Deb, you will never run out of books! Ha! Glad you got to help them out by taking away 4 boxes of books. Having helped with library book sales I know that finishing things out like this is quite important - nice they gave away the leftovers. Beautiful picture of your family. Have a good week!
ReplyDeleteFree books! I guess sometimes missing the original event works out well. I loved Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! I think I will add On the Hippie Trail to my TBR list.
ReplyDeleteThat is a lot of books! I’m a fan of Rick Steves and have used his guidebooks for Europe many times. Have a great weekend Deb!
ReplyDeleteWow! Sounds like a fantastic week, from family time to FOUR boxes of books!!! I hope you will share some of what you brought home (in a post, not giving books away, LOL!).
ReplyDeleteFree books?! I don't know if I'd be able to control myself and my TBR shelf does not need more boosk on it. Haev a great week!
ReplyDeleteOh I love the 4 leaf clovers. I've never found one but I have hope. Yay for free books. Always good and I'm sure it made missing the library sale much easier to deal with. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI love the 4 leaf clovers. Happy birthday to your grandson.
ReplyDeleteWait! Wyatt's six years old?! How did that happen?
ReplyDeleteWhoohoo on your book haul! Four boxes is a lot.
I can see the joy on everyone's faces! I'm so glad your family was able to gather together.
ReplyDeleteI used to work with a lady who could just glance at lawn and find a four-leaf clover. She said her dad was the same way. I may have found one or two in my life? But it seems like I would have strong memories of that so maybe I've never found any.
Rick Steves has been putting some great things on social media. This seems like a good time to read his memoir.
ReplyDeleteThat film watching marathon sounds so fun. What a brillant idea
ReplyDeleteAtlas ( 9 ) is constantly down in any patch of clover we pass trying to find a four leaf clover and never seems to fins one- one day I suppose lol
ReplyDeleteI wish many happy returns of the day to Wyatt!
ReplyDeleteYou've got a nice variety of books in different genres. Happy Weekend and have a great week! :)
ReplyDeleteNow that song is stuck in my head! lol! Wow! Four boxes of free books. I hope you’re able to enjoy them all.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you were able to have some family time. Looks like fun. Springtime in Paris sounds wonderful. I hope you enjoy it. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a wonderful family gathering! Yay for the unexpected free books! Hope you love them all. I wish I could visit Paris in person this spring. The blogger gathering honoring it sounds fun! Have a lovely week, Deb!
ReplyDeleteI love your three things idea so much, I cogged it again for my post https://jhohadli.com/2025/03/23/its-sunday-again-230325 Some years ago I started journaling "what's good" irregularly and it's a similar kind of focus on the positive kind of experiment...that sometimes works (lol).
ReplyDeleteThe Four Leaf Clover are good! Glad you had a good family time. Very exciting about the library sale. We don't have them here which is sad.
ReplyDeleteHave a great rest of your weekend!
What a lovely pic of your family gathering! So nice. I'm not sure why I never got to Cold Sassy Tree but I think I should give it a whirl sometime. I'm pleased to read your reviews. Enjoy your week ahead.
ReplyDeleteYay I am so glad that you are going to participate in Springtime in Paris. Now, if only we could all go on a field trip there after. Lol. Thank you for counting us a good thing. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to your Wyatt!! What a great sounding family day!
I don't think I've ever seen a four-leaf clover. That's really cool!
ReplyDeletewow, nice family time!
ReplyDeleteNeat to see Wolf Hall and Claudine on your ilst. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did
I love that you have such a big family. It's just my sister and I left of our family, and we used to have a big one. Everyone passed away young. Happy Sunday, Deb 🥰
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday to Wyatt! I have added Hippie Trail to my list on Goodreads, lookng forward to that one. Free leftover books?! That's fantastic!
ReplyDeleteAh, Paris, it must be time to revisit?
ReplyDeleteDeb!! Thank you for mentioning our link up! That's so awesome of you. We love having people watch along even if they can't get to all the movies. It's just impossible to do everything that's available to do out there! The four leaf clovers are so cool. And as for the books??? SCORE! Whoot! Hahaha! That's awesome.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great idea to give the books away after the library sale! We used to pay to have the leftover books taken away for donation, but an extra day or two offering them free would cut down on the expense. Love the family photo - happy birthday to Wyatt!
ReplyDeleteSo good things happen when we miss something too!! Love your good things, as always..
ReplyDeleteOooh! I always love free books!
ReplyDeleteThree cheers for celebrations with family, good books and good things. I'm looking forward to the Paris movies too.
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