The Sunday Salon: Three Basketball Wins, a Classics Club Spin, and Reading a Book a Day

 

Welcome! We are delighted that you joined us here at the Sunday Salon. 

What is the Sunday Salon? 

The Sunday Salon is a spot 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. 

With all the snow in East Texas and with schools closed and roads closed, we were not sure we would be able to make it up there, but everything opened back up and we got to visit with our family and see the grandkids play basketball over a long four-day weekend. It even warmed up enough for us to go outside and hang out for a while. 

It was cold and I read a lot last week. I finished seven books, four five-star books and three four-star books. 

What I Read Last Week:

Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum (Classic)

What Mad Universe by Frederic Brown (Science Fiction)

The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life 

by Frederick Buechner (Spirituality)

Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship 

by Annabel Abbs (Historical Fiction)

The Circuit: The Graphic Novel by Francisco Jiménez (Memoir)

All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson (2025 Newbery Winner)

Fireworks written by Matthew Burgess and illustrated by Catia Chien (2025 Caldecott Winner)

What I'm Reading Now:

The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Classic)

Native Nations: A Millenium in North America by Kathleen DuVal (History)

Little, Big by John Crowley (Fantasy)

The Classics Club has issued the announcement of the Classics Club’s 43rd CC Spin.

What is the Spin?

It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday, February 8th, 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, February 8th, 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, March 29th. 

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

I have a lot of books to read on my latest 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. Lost Horizon by James Hilton

4. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

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

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

7. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

8. Brendon Chase by B. B.

9. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

10. In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim

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

12. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

13. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

14. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin

15. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

16. In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor

17.  Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

18. Stowaway to Mars by John Wyndham

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?

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: Bookish

Book Covers with Cool Typography

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal: Book Beginnings on Fridays, First Line Friday, The Friday 56, and Book Blogger Hop

I'm off to a good start with my yearly challenges.

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:

Wyatt's team won!

Good Thing #2:

Annie's team won!

Good Thing #3:

My son, Jon, is coach of Annie's team,

so he also got a win this weekend.

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.