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.
I am delighted to have met and spent time with Mae of Mae's Food Blog this week. What a lovely person she is, and how fortunate I am to have gotten to talk with her in real life!
What I Read Last Week:
New York Melody by Hélène Druvert
Going into Town by Roz Chast
New York: 365 Days by James Barron
A History of New York in 101 Objects by Sam Roberts
What I'm Reading Now:
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Classics Club)
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Reread)
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz (Nonfiction)
My friend Cindy and I visited two bookstores this week to conclude my 2025 Houston Bookstore Crawl. We stopped at two of the oldest independent bookstores in Houston, Murder by the Book and Brazos Bookstore. I'll be featuring a bit about my visits to twelve independent bookstores over the next three months on my blog.
What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:
National Poetry Month: Gate A-4 by Naomi Shihab Nye
Some Great Books to Read for a Person Traveling Soon to New York City
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:
First harvest from our garden this year.
Good Thing #2:
I brought home a
Painted Lady butterfly-to-be
from Migration Celebration.
Good Thing #3:
A 700-day streak,
learning Spanish, French, and Italian
on Duolingo.
IT WAS WONDERFUL to meet you and Jim, and have lunch on the waterfront in Galveston. I linked my post about the event. Only one photo of the two of us was good -- the waiter who took the photo of four of us was a disaster as a photographer and the pics he took couldn't be rescued. Thank you again for hosting us!
ReplyDeletebest... mae at maefood.blogspot.com (also a real person)
How fun that you got to meet up! I hope we can have another Paris in July online chat, that was fun last year.
DeleteAw, it's always fun to meet up with people we know from online and put a face to the name. Glad you had fun!
ReplyDeleteWhat a terrific week! So glad you got to meet the wonderful Mae! And NYC sounds exciting! Can't wait to hear more.
ReplyDeleteHow cool that you got to meet Mae! And thanks for reminding me that I wanted to add Lonesome Dove to my TBR list.
ReplyDeleteHow fun to meet up with Mae and her husband! I'm always nervous to meet online friends, which is silly because we never run out of things to chat about.
ReplyDeleteThat's wonderful that you & Mae got to meet up! Two titans of the blogging world :-) I'm impressed with your early harvest too, wow! Are you going to NYC soon? Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI'm leaving on Wednesday, day after tomorrow!
DeleteHow wonderful that you and Mae were able to meet up! I’ve planted my onions this week and you are already harvesting! Have a great trip!
ReplyDeleteYay for getting to meet Mae, glad it went well. 700 day learning streak is super impressive. I hope you have a great weekend, and jealous you already have first fruits from your garden.
ReplyDeleteHow nice to meet up with some friends.
ReplyDeleteI love that you and Mae met in real life! How fun!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it the best when we can meet online friends in person? I got to do that last weekend, too. Congrats on the 700 day streak!! :)
ReplyDeletePlanning for a trip is almost as much fun as going.
ReplyDeleteI've met some blogger friends in person and it's always been a joy.
Congratulations on learning 3 languages and doing so well!
It is so great that you were able to meet Mae. What a fun time that must have been. Being a native New Yorker, I always love to see books about NY. I hope you enjoy your reading and have a great week!
ReplyDeleteHow fun that you got to meet Mae this week. I got to meet a fellow blogger/internet friend last week as well.
ReplyDeleteI love meeting online friends.
DeleteYou had another great week! Meeting online friends in real life is always fun!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on those languages too.
Until next week ….
Wow, twelve independent bookstores. That's amazing! Your thoughts will be welcome although it will make me sad I can't visit ...
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to start seeing butterflies around again!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you had a great week!
Congrats on the Duolingo stretch! Wow! That’s great! And I absolutely love that book crawl and the fun you are having. I went to a little book store yesterday and just loved it and wanted to stay there all afternoon!
ReplyDeleteSo many good things on your blog today! Great you met a fellow book blogger and I love the bookstore crawl you did.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tina...so many good things on your blog. I enjoyed my visit.
ReplyDeleteThat is wonderful that you met Mae. What a fantastic week, Deb 😍
ReplyDeleteHow exciting to meet up with a fellow blogger! I've met a few in the past and we had such a great time and long conversations! I really enjoy Mae's posts! I'm looking forward to your bookstore crawl posts! I've been to Book People in downtown Austin and that was such a lovely store, but I'd love to visit more in your state! Ooooh, the Painted Lady Butterfly!
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan of Book People in Austin.
DeleteHow fun to meet blogging friends! You both look so happy! It seems like you have New York on your mind. I now have Spying on the South on hold with Libby. Thank you for sharing! How wonderful to participate in a book crawl! Wow! Your Three Good Things is a fabulous list! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteSpying on the South is very, very depressing. Horwitz keeps meeting all these people who don't seem to know much at all about the world. Oh dear.
DeleteThat is so cool that you got to meet up with Mae and her husband!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to all your Bookcrawl posts!
I can't even imagine what it must be like to go into your yard and pull something up out of the dirt and exclaim "Look at this!!! It looks just like the onions in the grocery store!!!!" I remember the first time I saw brussel sprouts on a stalk at the grocery. I had no idea they grow on stalks!!! And I think I'm the only one in our entire Indiana-born extended family who has asked "What is that??" when driving by a corn field. (We moved away when I was 5).
I can't wait to see the painted butterfly and I thought of you when a guy on Tiktok was asking "What is this tiny dragon on my wall???" It was a rarely seen dragon moth!!! So cute! I hope you see one of those in the wild some day.
I was instructed to put the Painted Lady in a dark corner and to put a washcloth over it for twenty-five days. Now I peek at it each day. The caterpillars are walking around the little glass. It's terribly exciting.
DeleteYou might like to buy one little pot of a vegetable---maybe tomatoes. It is so fun to grow my own food.
How lovely that you were able to meet a blogging friend IRL, and also that you extended your bookstore crawl with another friend. I can't wait to see your bookstore posts.
ReplyDeleteWell done on your 700-day Duolingo streak! I haven't been able to maintain long streaks, but I am using Duolingo to refresh my Spanish. I'm impressed that you are able to work on three languages at once — and three Romance languages, at that. I have made a start on Welsh, but I do better when I stick to one language at a time, I think.
Have a good time whenever you go to New York! It looks like you will be well prepared.
It's crazy, trying to do three languages, and I have no idea why I'm doing it.
DeleteKudos on the 700-day streak! I am now inspired to start working on those language goals I have ... and have a great trip to NYC...
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you and Mae were able to meet up! I hope you have a wonderful time in New York, Deb.
ReplyDeleteHow fun to meet up with Mae and her husband. There are a few bloggers who live nearby me but so far we've not organized a meet up! Have a fun trip to New York! What shows will you see?
ReplyDeleteWe are planning to see The Lion King.
DeleteHow fun to meet up with blogging friends! Hope you enjoyed your bookstore crawl. Congratulations on your first harvest, Deb. Enjoy your week.
ReplyDeleteLove Lonesome Dove.
ReplyDeleteI am woefully behind having been out of town last week (on a much needed vacation). How fun that you and Mae met up in real life! And you're headed to NYC? When are you going?
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm leaving today, Wednesday!
DeleteLove all the New York themed books. How lovely you got to catch up with blogger friends.
ReplyDeleteHow cool to meet up with other bloggers in person :) So great to put a face with a name for Mae!
ReplyDeleteYou do so much every week! How fun to meet up with Mae! I agree with the comment "two blogging titans"! Can't wait to hear more about the bookstore crawl and your NYC trip. I love Roz Chast!
ReplyDeleteI did make a comment but I think I clicked away too fast to read your post on Lonesome Dove. It's a book I didn't finish, but I think a chapter a day would work. I am reading War and Peace that way. Maybe Lonesome Dove net year.
ReplyDeleteGreat meeting with Mae.
ReplyDeleteThe Bookstore Crawls sound wonderful.
And, of course, great Three Good Things!