Posts under ‘Sunday Salon’

August 21, 2011 Welcome to The Sunday Salon. I hope you’ll visit the Facebook page for this meme and visit other bloggers who want to talk about books! I started my vacation (really a “stay-cation” as I am not going anywhere!) on Friday and hope to have lots of reading time in the next week. [...]

August 14, 2011 Good morning and welcome to this week’s edition of The Sunday Salon. I have been reading all week from Steinbeck: A Life in Letters and have been greatly enjoying this book. It is giving me insight into Steinbeck which helps me appreciate even more the work he did over his lifetime. This [...]

August 7, 2011 Good morning, and welcome to this week’s edition of Sunday Salon. Grab a cup of coffee, put your feet up and let’s talk books! This past week I finished reading and posted my review of The Long Song by Andrea Levy – a book I loved for its sharply drawn characters and [...]

July 31, 2011 Welcome to The Sunday Salon, an event that unites readers each week. Pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee or your beverage of choice and join the discussion! It is hard to believe this is the last Sunday in July. The days are flying by. We’ve been working hard to [...]

July 24, 2011 Welcome to this week’s edition of Sunday Salon. Put your feet up, grab a cup of coffee (or your beverage of choice) and get ready to chat about books! July has been a rather slow reading month for me because my work schedule got a bit crazy. I missed last week’s Salon [...]

July 10, 2011 Good morning and welcome to the Sunday Salon. I’ve had a slow week of reading because of work obligations. But, despite that, I did finish one terrific book this week as part of Orange July. First let me take you back to last week. I talked a little about Anthropology of an [...]

June 26, 2011 8:30 AM Good morning to you and welcome to this week’s edition of Sunday Salon. Grab a cup of coffee or your beverage of choice, put up your feet and grab your nearest book – its time to talk literature! But wait, before I talk about the books I’ve been reading lately, [...]

June 19, 2011 Good morning and welcome to The Sunday Salon – a weekly event where readers sit down and talk books. Before I start talking about literature, let me extend a Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there in blogger-land! I hope you are enjoying your day. We are closing in on [...]

June 12, 2011 8:30 AM Ah, it is one of those perfect mornings in Northern California. The air has that clean, bright smell and the sun is filtering through the pines. The birds are singing and my coffee is hot. I’m ready to talk books. Yesterday I posted my thoughts about the latest ugly events [...]