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.
The cookie and cake were made by Jack's aunt and the photography on the magnet was done by Jack's mom.
Another busy week filled with swimming and writing and guitar lessons (!) and baking and visiting with those in a crochet club and eating with friends and, of course, reading---enjoying the moment.
What I Read Last Week:
Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye (Poetry)
The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley by Courtney Walsh (Fiction)
James by Percival Everett (Slow Re-read for Book Clubs)
What I'm Reading Now:
A Tale of Two Cities (Annotated) by Charles Dickens (If at first you don't succeed...)
A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated and Highly Abridged) by Charles Dickens
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Chapter-a-Day; 54%)
A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich (Audiobook)
Claudine: A Fairy Tale for Exceptional Grownups by Marian Grudko and T. A. Young (Paris in July)
A Bakery in Paris by Aimee K. Runyon (Paris in July; Cook the Books)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:
James by Percival Everett: Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Friday, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop
Paris in July has begun. I'm celebrating being in Paris this July by reading some books set in Paris, watching Maigret (1992) on BritBox, and practicing my French on Duolingo (oh-so-slowly...it took me eleven minutes to complete a single lesson today). The first book I've read for Paris in July is Remembering Paris written by Denis Tillinac and illustrated with work by André Renoux.
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:
Oh, these delicious fresh eggs from family in East Texas.
I do not have words for how good they are.
Good Thing #2:
My Aunt Karen is the Queen of Bags,
and when she heard I did not have a tote for my new iPad,
she made me this magnificent iPad case,
complete with my favorite colors and creatures (butterflies) and a bookworm zipper pull
.
Good Thing #3:
Aqua Zumba class
is delightful on these hot summer days.
How was your week?
I hope you will link up with a post or two,
and share what you have been up to.
Your new case for the iPad looks very pretty. The one I have (from the Apple Store) is practical but all white, also incorporating the keyboard.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading Tale of Two Cities in seventh grade: back then it was the standard curriculum for that grade. I've reread it a couple of times since then, and I wish you good luck.
Lucky you to have a source of fresh eggs.
Thanks for hosting Sunday Salon... mae at maefood.blogspot.com