Authors I Wish Were Still Writing Today

I keep a list of my favorite books on Goodreads. The list currently has 247 books on it. Happily, many of my most beloved writers are still alive and writing including Clint Smith, Maira Kalman, Bill Bryson, Erik Larson, Anne Lamott, George Saunders, and Elizabeth Strout. But there are also some of the writers whose books I have loved most will write no more books. Those are:

Émile Zola

Sid Fleischman

Terry Pratchett

Italo Calvino

Hermann Hesse

Franz Kafka

Truman Capote

George Orwell

Alexandre Dumas

John Steinbeck

Charles Dickens

Edith Wharton

Leo Tolstoy

Carol Shields

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.   

The Sunday Salon: A Nature-Filled Week: City Nature Challenge and Migration Celebration, What the Owl Knows and The Book of Birds

 

Welcome, everyone! We are glad you joined us 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 going on there. 

I spent two days chatting with visitors as I ferried them in a golf cart from the parking area to the wildlife refuge for the Migration Celebration. We had over nine hundred visitors at the event where kids and adults enjoyed hearing speakers on nature; seeing a raptor show; taking a swamp buggy tour; feeding butterflies in a butterfly tent; examining pond water through a microscope; holding snakes, turtles, and alligators; climbing a rock wall; and sifting through sand for nature treasures. 

I went with friends to hear Yann Martel speak about his latest book in Houston.

I chased butterflies and birds and other living things (mostly plants, but that does not sound like something you have to chase, does it?) for the City Nature Challenge. I managed to photograph 141 species over four days.

Now we are headed to Dallas to visit with our granddaughter, Bailey, and her daughter, Lucy, for a few days.

What I Read Last Week:

The Museum of Lost Things: True Tales of Fabled Treasures, Legendary Cities, and Mythical Creatures That Vanished From History by Sam Kean (Nonfiction)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (Fiction)

What I'm Reading Now:

The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane (Nonfiction)

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers (Fiction)

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds 

by Jennifer Ackerman (Nonfiction)

What I Posted Last Week Here at Readerbuzz:

The Sunday Salon: Migration Celebration at the San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge

The Biography of Things

What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman: 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:

A new-to-me species

I found during the City Nature Challenge:

Turk's-cap White Skipper

Good Thing #2:

A new-to-me species

I found during the City Nature Challenge:

Wild Indigo Duskywing

My photos: First place (blue) and honorable mention (green) for Invertibrates of Texas.

My photo: Honorable mention (first green ribbon in second row), Birds of Texas

Good Thing #3:

Some of you asked to see my nature photos

from the Migration Celebration Photo Contest.

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.