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.
My dad's wife, Rosa, celebrated her 97th birthday, and we went to a baby shower for our soon-to-arrive great-nephew, Cooper, and the birthday party of our great-nephew, Jack, 2, last week. I went to my swimming class a couple of times, and it felt good to be back in the pool with my friends. I'm now an official member of the Flamingos, called the Flams for short, a 30-year-old writing group that meets every Friday in Galveston.
What I Read Last Week:
South to America:
A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
by Imani Perry (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)
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson (Nonfiction)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Fiction)
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim (Fiction)
The Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Children's Fiction)
What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:
I do yearly challenges, but I also like to do perpetual challenges. Last week, I worked hard on one of my perpetual challenges, the 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up challenge. Last week, I read some of these books I've found on Internet Archive, a library of books that you can read for an hour at a time online. Here's what I read last week:
The Lark and the Laurel by Barbara Willard
The Little Captain and the Pirate Treasure by Paul Biegel
Hurrah for St. Trinian's by Ronald Searle
Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver by Michael Ende
Los suenos del sapo by Javier Villafañe (in Spanish)
El sapo que quería ser estrella by Oscar Alfaro (in Spanish)
Tatu and Patu in Helsinki by Aino Havukainen
Cuentos pintado y morales by Rafael Pombo (in Spanish)
Mi reino por uno caballo by Ana Maria Machado (in Spanish)
Now I need to find and read the last 184 books I have left on the list.
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 added two more library cards to my collection,
one from Georgia and one from North Carolina.
Good Thing #2:
We had nine inches of rain last week,
but we were dry, and the water quickly soaked into the ground.
Good Thing #3:
It was fun to get ready for the 20 Books of Summer
last week, and to see what all the other participants are reading.
I ended up adding a couple of good books to my list
from ideas others had listed.
How did your week go?
Did you read anything you would recommend?
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