The Sunday Salon: Baby Alligators on Mother's Day...and a New Classics Club Spin!

 

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. 

Intarsia

I'm leaving on Sunday for a week in the mountains of Georgia. My husband is going to a lapidary school to learn intarsia and I shall be hiking and, of course, reading and writing and drawing.

What I Read Last Week:

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds 

by Jennifer Ackerman (Nonfiction)

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts (Nonfiction)

What I'm Reading Now:

The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane (Nonfiction)

Make Life Happier by Mark Williamson (Nonfiction)

Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel (Fiction)

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 17th May, 2026, 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, May 17th, 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, July 5th. 

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. Afoot in England by W. H. Hudson

3. Lost Horizon by James Hilton

4. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

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. In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor

10. In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim

11. Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

12. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

13. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

14. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen

15. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

16. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

17.  Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

18. Stowaway to Mars by John Wyndham

19. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

20.The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell 

Have you read any of these?

Do you recommend any of these?

And the spin has stopped on number…

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: Reading Nonfiction

Cultivating My Garden

Enormous Wings by Laurel Frankel: 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:

A friend took this picture 

at the Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge

on Mother's Day. 

Now doesn't this make your own swarm

feel much more manageable?!

Good Thing #2:

A friend made me this

lovely patisserie.

How did she do this?!

Good Thing #3:

Is there anything better than

receiving a book as a gift for Mother's Day?

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.