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.
We will be on our way home today from our trip this week to the Georgia mountains.
What I Read Last Week:
Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel (Fiction)
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Fiction)
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)
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry (Nonfiction)
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson (Nonfiction)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Fiction)
In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor (Fiction)
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:
Almost everything we had for supper
was from our garden.
What an excellent selection of books you're currently reading. I'd enjoy all of those. Thanks for the link-up
ReplyDeleteDear Deb, I love ❤️ your list of 3 good things. What a great list of books.
ReplyDeleteFood from the garden, flowers, and that super fun tee, are very good things! I’ll be interested in your opinion on The Good Earth.
ReplyDeleteHappy reading, Deb. You have lots of good choices here. You have reminded me that it’s many years since I read “The Good Earth” and it’s past time to repeat the experience.
ReplyDeleteI’m impressed that your garden is already so productive. Only the earliest things here: specifically, rhubarb!
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful that you are able to eat from your garden already. It will be a while yet for me. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI love your good things. And wow -- that salad looks lovely. Well done on the garden!
ReplyDeleteWonderful to see the covers of the books you are reading.
ReplyDeleteRe-read “The Good Earth” last year. Such an author—P. Buck.
Like the idea to highlight 3 good things.
Lovely flower pictures! Cute T-shirt for summer reading. The library where I volunteer is geared up for a busy, busy summer to come. I remember those! Hope you guys had a great trip to Georgia!
ReplyDeleteI just finished YesterYear, what a head trip! I've not read the Bill Bryson you mentiioned but have enjoyed his books on England and Australia.
ReplyDeleteThis is quite an informative post: good books, good things, and good link parties. I keep a list of writing and photo challenges on my blog, AlwaysWrite.blog. Would you like yours listed as well? I like the way you have everything displayed visually. It looks very attractive and is easy to skim and enjoy.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Marsha. You are welcome to add this to your list!
DeleteI hope you're having a nice drive home from the Georgia mountains! We drove home yesterday from the Florida beaches. Except for a few traffic jams on I-65, it was smooth sailing after a beautiful week.
ReplyDeleteI love that t-shirt! Hope you had safe travels home.
ReplyDeleteHappy travels! I'm in line at the library for Yesteryear -- sounds intriguing.
ReplyDeleteWelcome home, I hope you had a good time. The grass does not grow under your feet, does it.
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoyed your trip. I love that almost everything you had for dinner came from your garden. I don't have a garden (I live in a condo and I couldn't physically maintain a garden anyway), but I often eat salads with organic ingredients I primarily buy from the farmer's market. It's the next best thing to growing my own food. Have a great week! :)
ReplyDeleteI discovered "The Good Earth" one summer in my late teens and I read it and reread it. And read it again! In fact I couldn't tell you how many times I read it that summer but I loved it and have fond memories of it still. Much later in life - in fact just a couple of years ago - I read "A Walk in the Woods" and loved that, too. When I was in college at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga I spent some time in those Georgia mountains as well. I hope you enjoyed them.
ReplyDeleteYes, I loved these Georgia mountains. I didn't get around to A Walk in the Woods last week (I walked too much in the woods) but I hope to read it this week or next.
DeleteLove your good things as usual; such a beautiful habit.
ReplyDeleteHope you had a great trip! Enjoy your reading and have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a wonderful time and have pictures to share. Happy Reading!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it nice to be home after traveling? I enjoy our trips, but that first night home is so cozy. I'm eager to read your thoughts on Enormous Wings and The Ride of Her Life.
ReplyDeleteHi Deb, I’m very unlucky with comments this weekend. I’m told that I can’t sign in and I turn up anyonymous even if I try not to be. SO to all the links: thanks for posting and I hope to be able to communicate some day….
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I don't know why you are anonymous, Mae! It's crazy. You are the least anonymous person I know.
DeleteThank you for this great link-up and all the book titles. I'm hoping to cuddle up with hot tea and a good book later today.
ReplyDeleteThat garden supper looks wonderful. I love the summer reading shirt!
ReplyDeleteI am so looking forward to reading Yesteryear!!
ReplyDeleteThat tshirt is awesome! Our library's summer reading program is dinosaurs this year too!
ReplyDeleteThe T-shirt is fun! You are getting a lot of reading done despite all your gallivanting:)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your week
I LOVE your T-shirt, Deb. And you're right - flowers are everywhere just now. It's such a riot of colour and scent and is so joyous!! Have a lovely week.
ReplyDeleteThe salad/meal from your garden looks absolutely delicious! I read Bill Bryson's Into the Woods years ago and remember really enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteHope you have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI think it's wonderful that your dinner was full of what you grew in the garden! My goal! Or at least I hope to get some tomatoes! I've been slowly repotting all my plants and getting the raised beds ready. If it ever stops raining here I'll be able to do some real planting! BTW, what do you think of Natalie in Yesteryear? I really hated her for the longest time... Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteOh dear, yes, Natalie is not a nice person.
DeleteHow was you reread of The Good Earth. Was it as good as you remembered? Your climate is so different from ours. Jealous of fresh tomatoes and cucumbers!
ReplyDeleteI finished my reread and now I'm digging into (sorry! couldn't help myself) The Good Earth so I can lead the discussion.
DeleteThe food from your garden looks great, Deb! I hope you continue to have some good reading time this week.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what you thought of Yesteryear. I've seen mixed reviews. A trip to the Georgian Mountains sounds wonderful and dinner from your garden looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteI have mixed feelings about it.
DeleteYour garden dinner looks delicious! And I love the library reading program shirt (I have always loved dinosaurs!). I need to check out library's summer reading program. Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteI would love to have a garden with fresh veggies. I think the only thing we could eat from ours is a banana slug! Lol! Hope you had an enjoyable getaway with lots of good exploring/walks/hikes!
ReplyDeleteHope you have a safe trip home. Looks like you've accomplished a fair amount of reading. Enjoy your week.
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Intriguing assortment of books. So nice to eat out of your garden. I think we are finally past the threat of frost here. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteHope you have a safe trip home and enjoyed your time in Georgia.
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So good to be eating from the garden. My garden is really finished but I am still getting a few tomatoes by bringing them in as they show they are pinking up and putting them in the window to ripen up. Love the t shirt.
ReplyDeleteWhat a delicious meal from your garden! I tried to get through Yesteryear but it wasn't for me. Sometimes a book will just put me in a negative headspace and that one did that for me. But I can definitely appreciate how others found it humorous and a good book for discourse.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week, Deb!
Love that your garden is already giving you a nice salad to eat -- Wow, nice. We finished Yesteryear too ... what a doozy of a read. I'm tempted by the Frankel and Letts books as well. Cheers.
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