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.
It was a lovely week in summer here, with lots of swimming and guitar-playing and reading.
I'm headed to downtown Houston today to the Alley Theater to see the play, The Mirror Crack'd, with a friend. We are also going to eat at a French (!) restaurant.
Next week we shall be in Paris!* More on this later.
What I Read Last Week:
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (my fourth read of this book)
What I'm Reading Now:
Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France by Vivian Swift (Paris in July)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot (Poetry Seminar)
Fantômette et la maison hantée by Georges Chaulet (1001 Children's Books; Paris in July)
The Jules Verne Prophecy by Larry Schwartz and Iva-Marie Palmer (Paris in July)
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee (Paris in July)
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie (Theater Outing)
What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:
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:
We celebrated our 47th wedding anniversary.
Good Thing #2:
Our g-granddaughter Lucy will celebrate her 3rd birthday
at a children's museum near Dallas next weekend.
We will be staying nearby in Paris*---Paris, Texas.
Good Thing #3:
Ross Gay shows us
how we might develop our "delight muscle."
Congratulations on 47 years! I'm very impressed by the variety of reading you do, including poems and children's stories. Thanks for the link-up
ReplyDeleteBelated Happy Anniversary! And Happy Birthday to your g-granddaughter! I need to read Lonesome Dove. I saw the mini series like 40 years ago. It’s past time.
ReplyDeleteHave a great visit with your great-granddaughter!
ReplyDeleteWe are still traveling. Last week we were in Greece, this week in Turkey.
best… mae at maefood.blogspot.com
Aw, happy anniversary!
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary! How lovely. And fun to see the play and go to the French restaurant. (We'll want a report, of course!) And what's this about Paris?!
ReplyDeleteWe have a restaurant called Paris Texas!
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary! Have a great time in Paris Texas!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the anniversary. We are behind you by a few years, married 41 years. The time has flown by. I have a friend in Paris TX and we play Wordfeud every day via phones. Thanks for the encouragement for Paris in July, I have been having a blast!
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary! We're a decade behind you. My daughter and I always joked about visiting Paris (TX) when we lived in Fort Worth. :) Also, nice job reading Lonesome Dove... AGAIN!
ReplyDeleteI read "Lonesome Dove" many years ago - I guess it was when it first came out. I enjoyed it but I don't think I'd care to reread it. They made a great television series of it with Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall. Happy anniversary to you and the spouse. We just celebrated our 50th.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 47 years and enjoy the party and Paris (Texas).
ReplyDeleteSo much to celebrate! Happy Anniversary, and Happy Birthday to your great granddaughter! The theater outing and French food sounds like a lot of fun. Enjoy your trip to Paris, TX. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary! Have a great trip to Paris, Texas!
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary!!! That wedding photo is too cute. Have a wonderful time at the play, sight-seeing in Paris, TX, and spending time with Miss Lucy! 3 is such a cute age!
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary! And Happy Birthday Lucy!!!🎂🎂🎂
ReplyDeleteI bet that play was wonderful!
Happy 47th wedding anniversary to you and your husband, Happy Birthday to your great granddaughter!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your 47th wedding anniversary and a happy birthday to your great-granddaughter, Deb:)). Both are wonderful achievements. I've only ever seen The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie on stage, but I'll bet The Mirror Crack'd would be ideal as a play. And thank you for the lovely Wendy Cope poem you added down the side - it was lovely:)). I hope the coming week is a good one.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary! I am impressed by your 47 years!
ReplyDeleteAnd a fourth read of Lonesome Dove? I am so not a re-reader that I cannot imagine, but what a statement it makes about how much you like the novel. Have a wonderful week.
How fun to see a play! I’m sure you’ll enjoy your day! Your enthusiastic review of Lonesome Dove has me intrigued. Happy 47th anniversary! I’m so happy for the two of you! Look at those smiles! Lucy is certainly a cutie pie! Happy Birthday, Lucy! I pulled up On Being to listen to as I stitch. These days my “delight muscle” could use some developing. Hugs to you!
ReplyDeleteI never feel like I have time to re-read even books I like so I'm very impressed with 4th re-read. Lonesome Dove was a good one - the book and the TV mini-series.
ReplyDeleteI hope the play was good. Happy Anniversary!
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary! And I hope you have fun on your trip. That sounds lovely.
ReplyDeleteMy husband picked up a Larry McCurty book last week at our local used bookstore and read through it in a day. now he wants to go out and get the sequel. I don't remember the name of it, though. I'll have to ask him later.
Happy belated Anniversary! I'd like to read Lonesome Dove by 2026! You're reading and talk of it over the years has been inspirational for when I get to it. thanks. I really look forward to it being special.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary and Happy 3rd birthday to Lucy!! Enjoy Paris, TX :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations. Enjoy your travels.
ReplyDeleteHave you read all the other books in the Lonesome Dove series? How did they compare? // Congrats on your 47th anniversary. Don and I celebrated our 43rd this June. Where have the years gone? // I am leaving your sight, in a minute, to check out the Ross Gay Joy sight.
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