The Sunday Salon: Reading an Absurd Number of Books for Paris in July

 

Welcome! I am glad 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 time to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

It's summer, and I'm doing all the things I usually do in summer...I'm swimming and doing butterfly counts and working at reptile shows at the library and eating lunch with friends and going to my book groups and reading sixteen books (!) for Paris in July and loving the feeling of the sun on my face.

What I Read Last Week:

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (Travel Memoir)

The Paris Bookshop for the Brokenhearted by Rebecca Raisin (Fiction)

My Good Life in France by Janine Marsh (Memoir)

What I'm Reading Now:

The Earth by Émile Zola (Fiction - Paris in July)

Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (Fiction in French - Paris in July)

France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb (History - Paris in July)

The Shortest History of France by Colin Jones (History - Paris in July)

Toujours la France! by Janine Marsh (Memoir - Paris in July)

The War of the Buttons by Louis Pergaud (Children's Fiction - Paris in July)

Thirty Days in Paris by Veronica Henry (Fiction - Paris in July)

One Summer in Paris by Sarah Morgan (Fiction - Paris in July)

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Deborah Levy (Fiction - Paris in July)

The Unbreakables by Lisa Barr (Fiction - Paris in July)

Quartet by Jean Rhys (Fiction - Paris in July)

Moveable Feasts: A Story of Paris in Twenty Meals by Chris Newens (Nonfiction - Paris in July)

En Route: A Journey Through France in the Company of Great Writers by Peter Fiennes (Nonfiction - Paris in July) 

This week, I found myself reading a ridiculous number of books set in France or about France for Paris in July. The two I'm enjoying the most right now are En Route and Moveable Feasts.

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: Off to Paris! (Virtually)

Book Titles that Include the Word “Happy” (and My Assessment of Whether or Not the Book is Good for Lifting One's Mood)

Candide by Voltaire: 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:

This weekend is the Reverse Readathon, 

and I forgot about it until now (eek), 

but, oh well, I think I'll jump in,

 though I'm late to the table.

Good Thing #2:

A cup of espresso!

Good Thing #3:

G-daughter Bailey and her daughter, Lucy,

are coming next week!

Yay!

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.