The Sunday Salon: A Week of Birthday Celebrations, and Now I'm Off to the Texas Book Festival

  

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

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 had a marvelous 69th birthday. Thank you for all the birthday greetings. I spent my actual birthday with the naturalist interns on a birding field trip, and it was perfect. We took a short cruise the night before up the San Bernard River with friends. The only one who forgot to wish me happy birthday this year was my dad, and he felt so guilty that he took me out to eat to celebrate! I even received some actual birthday cards (thank you, Tina!)

Thank you so much!

What I Read Last Week:

The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and a Medical Miracle by Rachel Clarke

Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right

and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupik

What I'm Reading Now:

Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Bluets by Maggic Nelson

The Common Good by Robert B. Reich

Week 1 of Nonfiction November 2025...What have you read this year? What did you enjoy the most?

Week 2 of Nonfiction November 2025...What are your favorite nonfiction topics? What might you read this month that would challenge you?

5 Reasons to "Do" the Book Instead of Just Reading It

Something I'm thinking about...

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: It's My Birthday!

Nonfiction November 2025: Choosing Nonfiction

The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf

The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle that Saved a Child's Life by Dr. Rachel Clarke: Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Friday, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop

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:

I am at the Texas Book Festival 

in Austin this weekend.

Yay!

Good Thing #2:

A Reddish Egret was very cooperative

and posed nicely

during the birding field trip.

Good Thing #3:

My son and d-i-l gave me

this Smart Lightbulb

for my birthday.

It's so much fun!

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.