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 finished up some non-Paris-in-July books this week. For me, My Friends started slowly, but the second half of the book turned everything around for me, and I ended up rating it 4 1/2 stars. I listened to Beyond Words, but I went ahead and ordered a copy and I'll read that again before my book group meets next month. I liked the new Lisa See book a lot, but I felt like she spent a little too much time putting on paper all the details of a terrible event in Los Angeles history for a book that is historical fiction---probably that's just me.
What I Read Last Week:
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina (Book Club Nonfiction)
My Friends by Frederik Bachman (Book Club Fiction)
Daughters of the Sun and Moon by Lisa See (Fiction)
What I'm Reading Now:
The Earth by Émile Zola (Fiction)
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (Travel Memoir)
Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (Fiction in French)
The Paris Bookshop for the Brokenhearted by Rebecca Raisin (Fiction)
My Good Life in France by Janine Marsh (Memoir)
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb (History)
The War of the Buttons by Louis Pergaud (Children's Fiction)
PBS helped me start my Paris in July 2026 journey off right with a visit to Paris via the Rick Steves' episode, Paris of the Parisians, coupled with the Daytripper's episode on Paris, Texas.
I began seven books that feature Paris or France.
And I practiced my French on Duolingo at least one time a day.
A pretty good start...
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:
My husband and I attended
a Pollinator Academy last weekend,
and we came home with
ten packets of free wildflower seeds.
Good Thing #2:
I swam Monday through Friday
this week at the Rec Center.
Good Thing #3:
It was warm this week,
but when we saw that it was five degrees
warmer in Chicago,
it didn't feel too bad!
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