The Sunday Salon: A Classics Club Spin

Welcome! We're glad you're 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 there. 

What I Read Last Week:

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage by Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor

I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World by Sarah Wilson

What I'm Reading Now:

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

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, August 16, 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, August 16, 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, October 4th, 2026. 

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. I picked the ten books from the list that I most want to read and listed them twice.

1, 11. A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym

2, 12. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

3, 13. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright

4, 14. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

5, 15. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

6, 16. Indian Summer by William Dean Howells

7, 17. Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

8, 18. Emily of the New Moon by L. M. Montgomery

9, 19. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

10, 20. Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym

Have you read any of these?

Do you recommend any of these?

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: Two Wonderful Re-reads; Persian Food; Jury Duty; and a New Ukulele

Books I Was Reading On This Day Over the Last Ten Years

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir: 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:

I experimented with some new 

chocolate chip cookie recipes.

I hope to post about this next week.

Good Thing #2:

Our book club read The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency this month,

so I reread the book and watched the series in prep for leading

the discussion.

Good Thing #3:

I was delighted to see my first

Julia Heliconian butterfly

this week.

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.