The Sunday Salon: A Week of Family

 

I am very glad that you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. Welcome! 

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've been visiting family in East Texas most of the week. I came home Thursday, and on Friday I visited more family who were camping at Galveston Island State Park. Saturday is our family reunion where I will...yes, you guessed it, visit with yet more family.

What I Read Last Week:

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

What I'm Reading Now:

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (Fantasy)

Butterflies of Houston & Southeast Texas by John & Gloria Tveten

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: I am Officially Happy

The Best Things I've Ever Baked

The Classics Club has issued the announcement of the Classics Club’s 42st CC Spin.

What is the spin?

It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday, October 19th, 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, October 19th, 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, August 24th. 

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

I have an almost brand-new Classics Club list. Let's see where the needle stops.

So here is my list.

1. Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasure by J. Frank Dobie

2. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

3. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

4. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

5. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson

6. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

7. Afoot in England by W. H. Hudson

8. Brendon Chase by B. B.

9. Bevis: The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies

10. In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim

11. Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis

12. Warrior Scarlett by Rosemary Sutcliff

13. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

14. One Man's Meat by E. B. White

15. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

16. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

17.  The Adventures of Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels

18. Miss Carter and the Ilfrit by Susan Alice Kirby

19. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

20. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino 

Have you read any of these?

Do you recommend any of these?

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:

A double rainbow

over our town's Rec Center.

Good Thing #2:

I made it to level 20 in Spanish

on Duolingo.

Good Thing #3:

Three of my favorite photos so far

from the 2025 Texas Pollinator Bioblitz.

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.