Home from Arizona!

 

We should be on our way home from Arizona Saturday and Sunday. If all goes well....

I've been focusing on reading two books, a fiction book, These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories and a nonfiction book, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West. 

I published a few posts last week:

Book Titles That Would Make Great Country Song Titles

Small Delights: Flowers on My Morning Walk

Nonfiction November: Be the Expert

Hiking Arizona!

Good Thing #1: Rest and relax.

Good Thing #2: No hurricane worries.

Good Thing #3: Hiking.

I'm happy you found your way to the Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon is a place for us to link up and to share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

Some of the things we often talk about at the Sunday Salon:

• What was your week like?
• Read any good books? Tell us about them.
• What other bookish things did you do? 
• What else is going on in your life?

Other places where you may like to link up over the weekend are below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

My linkup for Sunday Salon is below.

Nonfiction November: Be the Expert

 

Week 3: (November 16-20) – Rennie is asking you to Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert: Three ways to join in this week! You can either share 3 or more books on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert), you can put the call out for good nonfiction on a specific topic that you have been dying to read (ask the expert), or you can create your own list of books on a topic that you’d like to read (become the expert). 

I'm certainly no expert here, but I am eager to share anything that might move us a little farther down this path. Here's my list.

Books that Might Help Us Get Along with Each Other a Little Better

Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy by Stephen L. Carter

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel

The Common Good by Robert B. Reich

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening) by Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers

And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman

Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse by Timothy P. Carney

Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel

Small Delights: Flowers on My Morning Walk

 Yes, I'm a Texas Master Naturalist, but that doesn't mean I can identify the flowers I see growing in yards on our morning walk. I welcome any identifications you might make.

Hibiscus

Globe amaranth

Chinese rain tree

Trailing daisy

Blue plumbago

Skyflower

Angel's trumpet

Petunia

Crepe myrtle

Pear

Lantana

Egyptian star-cluster

Hibiscus

Book Titles that Would Make Great Country Song Titles

Thanks, Deanna @ A Novel Glimpse!

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.

Arizona!

 

If all goes well, we are off in Arizona, hiking, resting, relaxing. 

I am just taking two books along with me to Arizona. I've got one fiction book, These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories. And I've got one nonfiction book, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West. 

Nonfiction November: Your Year in Nonfiction

Non-Bookish Hobbies

Small Delights: Old Car in My Neighborhood

Nonfiction November: Book Pairings

I also posted A List of Nonfiction Classics on The Classics Club blog.

Hiking. Taking photos. Drawing.

I'm keeping a little journal during the trip.

Good Thing #1: The election is over, and the good guys won.

Good Thing #2: I'm off in Arizona.

Good Thing #3: I'm not thinking about the election or the coronavirus or hurricanes.

I'm happy you found your way to the Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon is a place for us to link up and to share what we have been doing during the week. It's a great way to visit other blogs and join in the conversations going on there. 

Some of the things we often talk about at the Sunday Salon:

• What was your week like?
• Read any good books? Tell us about them.
• What other bookish things did you do? 
• What else is going on in your life?

Other places where you may like to link up over the weekend are below. Click on the picture to visit the site.

My linkup for Sunday Salon is below.

Nonfiction November: Book Pairing

It's Week 2 of Nonfiction November (November 9-13).  Julz Reads will be sharing Book Pairing: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!” or just two titles that you think would go well together. Maybe it’s a historical novel and you’d like to get the real history by reading a nonfiction version of the story. 

Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird AND How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

A novel about the life of a freed enslaved Black woman who joins the Buffalo Soldiers AND a nonfiction overview of the history of American racism and ways to overcome racism in America today.

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig AND From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

A novel about a woman who tries to take her own life and ends up with opportunities to relive her life and make different choices in the afterlife AND a nonfiction book written by a mortician who travels the world to see ways different cultures care for their dead.

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue AND Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History by Jeremy Brown

A novel about a nurse in flu-ravaged Dublin in 1918 AND a nonfiction book about the 1918 flu.

These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901: Arizona Territories: A Novel by Nancy E. Turner AND Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West

A fictionalized diary of a woman who came to live in the Arizona Territories in 1881 AND a history of the American West. This is the pairing I'm experiencing this week.

Small Delights: Old Car in My Neighborhood

 

For more wordless photos, go to Wordless Wednesday.

Saturday Snapshot is hosted by A Web of Stories. To participate in Saturday Snapshot: post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken and then leave a direct link to your post in the Mister Linky at A Web of Stories.

My Non-Bookish Hobbies

I love to read. You might be surprised to find that I enjoy other things.

What can you surmise from these paintings of my alter ego, Readerbuzz?

Yes, so here goes: I love to bird watch, take photos, garden, and bake...PLUS...

...write in my daily journal, walk, bake bread, blog, do yoga, travel, make pies, meditate, drink coffee, draw, visit Paris, play Scrabble, learn new words, write poetry, talk, listen to others talk, go to bookstores, visit libraries, swim, bake the world's best chocolate chip cookies, learn French, practice my Spanish, ride my bike, watch old movies, review books, go rock hunting, kayak, grow vegetables, explore the American West, write my novel, paint rocks, play guitar, hang out with my puppets, play card games, hike, walk in nature, camp, read aloud from picture books, illustrate my favorite quotes, make lists of books I want to read, talk to my bird, picking up pecans, bake something I've never baked before, tell stories, wear costumes, dance, sing, listen to music, watch romantic comedies, search for books for my Little Free Library, bake biscuits, be with my grandchildren, go antiquing, make lists of the best books I've read, listen to podcasts, write little stories, arrange my bookshelves, organize cabinets and drawers, fold laundry, browse through books, swing on my front porch, go on picnics, visit museums, quilt, look for fossils, hang out with my friends and family, tell jokes, put together puzzles....

And read. Did I tell you that I love to read?

Do you share any of these pursuits?

What do you enjoy doing?

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.