A hiking trail in Simi Valley (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Time: Mid-morning, Sunday. Starting this at 9:40 AM with the hope to be done before 10:30, especially since not much has changed since last Sunday. (Finishing at 11:25 AM, thanks to assorted distractions.) Place: At my dining room table in Simi Valley, California, where it’s sunny and 63 degrees, with a forecast high of 82. (Again, not much change since last week…) Eating: Toast with Nutella, or […]
Time: 10:14 AM, as I complete this for posting Place: At my dining room table is Simi Valley, California, where the current temperature is 67 degrees and today’s forecast high is 81. The sun is out and the screen doors are open. Eating: A mix of oatmeal and Kashi cereal, mixed with lots of sliced strawberries–spring is here and the price of strawberries is dropping!–and Trader Joe’s Crumpets with Nutella Drinking: Water and sweetened, milky black […]
I wasn’t in the Salon last Sunday because I was celebrating Birthday Weekend at WonderCon Anaheim. Here’s one of my favorite photos from the event. Eat your hearts out, fangirls! (Well, no, don’t really. Sadly, these are NOT the genuine article.) The week after Birthday Week has not been one of the most productive of my reading life. I’d like to say that’s because of extended and prolonged celebrations, but sadly, it’s mostly been due […]
I think I bit off a bit more this month than I should have, reading-wise. My Little Women re-read has stalled around Chapter 12. There are a few reasons for that: I’ve been surprised to discover how much of it I still remember more than 30 years after last reading it, which has lessened my sense of urgency to get through it; in all honesty, I’m finding Harriet Reisen’s biography of its author, Louisa May Alcott, is […]
This weekend, The 3 R’s Blog turns six years old! (And it’s not the only one–Happy Blogiversary to my same-age blogging siblings It’s All About Books and Word Lily, too!) My fifth blogiversary was a three-post extravaganza. This one’s a bit more subdued, and comes at a time of major reassessment for the blogiverse-at-large. You’ve probably heard this about this in many places over the last few days, but just in case you’ve managed to miss […]
…and yet, I keep adding to the stacks. For those of you who are interested in that sort of thing, the current count of inmates in TBR Purgatory stands at 517. I think that number is overstated, to be honest, because I’m reasonably certain I’ve purged some books without taking them out of my LibraryThing catalog…but I can’t say exactly how overstated it might be. One of these days (it may require two, or even […]
After spending my last visit to the Sunday Salon talking about going offline, that was what I did most of last weekend, and I may spend a good chunk of today that way, too. But I do hope I’ll be able to spend some time reading; I have a post due for a blog tour on Wednesday. As I mentioned back at the beginning of February, I had a long reading list for a short […]
If all goes well, today will be a review-writing day. Last night I raced to finish a book of short stories for a blog tour this Tuesday, so I’ll be writing that up. I also hope to get my thoughts down, finally and with some degree of coherence, about We Need to Talk About Kevin; I finished the audiobook a few days ago, but it’s a novel that definitely needs to simmer a little. I […]
I’m later to the Salon than I like to be, and I won’t be staying long today. We have plans for this lovely Sunday. Last year we spent it with the antiquities at the Getty Villa; today we’ll be going to the Getty Museum (cameras in hand, of course) for more art and views of the city. We don’t plan to be back before the game starts, so we have the DVR set to record it–we wouldn’t miss […]
Question: Are the books in your house books those you’ve read and loved and won’t part with, or are you mostly surrounded by your TBR collection? I think I remember, once upon a time, having shelves full of the books I’d read, and being afraid I’d one day run out of new ones to read. The last several years have seen the scale tip very much in the opposite direction–I keep very few books once […]
One reason I fell away from participating in the Sunday Salon for a while was that I’d come to feel like my posts here needed to be topical–in the “have a topic” sense, that is, not the “time-sensitive, hot-button” sense, although sometimes that applied too–and I was finding myself lacking the time, energy, and/or brainpower to write posts like that every week. I don’t think I’ve recovered it, to be honest, but since the only […]
Happy 2013! I haven’t dropped into the Sunday Salon for awhile (almost three months(!!)), so the first Sunday of a new year seems like an appropriate time to get back into the groove. I’m not sure I’ll be around every week, but I’ve missed being around at all. I’ll be posting my 2012 Books of the Year selections tomorrow–four fiction, two nonfiction, and several special mentions–so if you’re interested in that kind of thing, I […]
