What I’m reading in print / on screen I’ve moved on to April reviewing for Shelf Awareness, starting off with New Life, No Instructions: A Memoir by Gail Caldwell. I really liked Caldwell’s 2010 memoir of friendship–human and canine–Let’s Take the Long Way Home, but this one may be even more affecting–it’s feeling like a perfectly-timed choice for my milestone-birthday month. Have you heard that this is Read an E-Book Week? I’ll be continuing with […]
Tag: Sunday Salon
What’s On in the (Sunday) Salon, 3/2/2014
What I’m reading in print As I mentioned last week, given the assorted work-related time limitations I’ll have for the next couple of months, I’m keeping my print reading focused on review commitments. This week, I need to finish Exodus, make my April choices for Shelf Awareness, and get going on a blog-tour read for the end of this month. on audio I should be done with Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell in the next day […]
What’s On in the (Sunday) Salon, 2/23/2014
My Facebook friends may have seen my request for a Sunday Salon posting dispensation last week. I don’t want to do that two weeks in a row, so…hey, I’m here! How are you doing this weekend? What I’m reading in print All my print reading these days is for review commitments–mostly for Shelf Awareness, but I do have three blog tours scheduled between now and early April. (I rarely do those any more, but it’s […]
Sunday Salon 2-9-2014: Gray & Grumpy Edition
It’s gray, damp, and California-chilly this weekend; we’ve had some sorely-needed rain during the past few days. Between the moody weather and being at the midpoint of two busy and stressful weeks–and hoping I’m not getting sick!–I’m simultaneously tired and restless, and the combination of it all has me just a little grumpy and out-of-sorts this weekend. What I’m reading in print I’ve got three ARCs in various degrees of progress right now. Coincidence by J.W. Ironmonger […]
What’s On in the (Sunday Salon), 2-2-2014
Dateline: Saturday evening, on the MacBook, at the kitchen desk, about to spend a quiet night at home by myself. (Well, maybe not that quiet–I do have iTunes cranked up right now.) Tall Paul is out for the evening, shooting photos at a “movie star gala” that you won’t see on TV. I’ll probably be spending the time after I finish this post reading, since I don’t really know how to work all of our TV-related remotes. (I wish I were […]
Sunday Salon: (2 Days) Late Edition
What I’m reading in print I just finished One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, a short-fiction collection by B.J. Novak (yes, Ryan the Temp from The Office, TV nerds, but he was also a writer/producer on the show, so this is not coming from out of nowhere). I’m hoping Shelf Awareness won’t decide my review came in too late for them to use it, since the book publishes next week–I’m not usually much for […]
What’s On in the (Sunday) Salon, 1/19/2013
What I’m reading in print I would like to report that I’m not still reading the same books I was last week, but that would be both inaccurate and untrue. I think I have a pretty good shot at finishing at least one of them this weekend, though…and I will not consider the fact that it’s a three-day weekend a cheat. on audio I’ve finished my first audiobook of 2014, but the second one will take me a […]
What’s Going On in the (Sunday) Salon, 1/12/2014
Since it’s a new year, I’m trying out a new format for my Sunday updates here in the Salon. I reserve the right to tweak or toss it without prior notice. What I’m Reading In Print I’m still working on my official “First Book of the Year,” The Book Thief–and I learned just yesterday that my sister is also in the middle of reading it. She usually posts her book reviews on Goodreads, but perhaps I’ll try to […]
Sunday Salon: Books of the Year, 2013
I started 2014 with a couple of vacation days from work so I could do some other “work”–my blog version of the “year-end close.” (It will take much longer to do that at my day job, which is the other reason I took some time off now!) I’ll be reporting on it all this week, but I wanted to kick it off with the good stuff. Books of the Year, 2013 FICTION (print): Telegraph Avenue, […]
Sunday Salon: One Last Time for 2013
Dateline: Sunday, late morning/noontime, on the living-room sofa/at the kitchen desk. The windows are open, the breeze is blowing, and picture-perfect Tournament of Roses Parade weather is coming in. I’m puppy-sitting while everyone else is at the movies, because I decided to get some writing done instead of seeing The Hobbit a second time–two books need to be reviewed. The puppy is cooperating by taking a nap. Thank you, Bellatrix (or as I sometimes call […]
Sunday Salon: Chicken Soup and Cookies
Dateline: Sunday morning, around 6:30 as I begin this, in the loft. I wasn’t sure I’d post today, but I got a cosmic message yesterday which seemed to be telling me I should, and which I present as a Gratuitous Photo of the Week: I get it! I’ll post something! Consuming: Water and honey-lemon Ricola cough drops, soon to be followed by Zicam and Mucinex tablets. I have been nursing a cold since Wednesday, and […]
Sunday Salon: 10 Days Till Christmas Edition
Dateline: Sunday morning, too bloody early. I did not intend to be awake at 5:30, people–that’s for work days, not Sundays. And yet I am, so here I am, in the loft, having decided that since I’m up, I might as well get a Sunday Salon post done. Any typos may be blamed on writing on the iPad while wearing my regular glasses–I may be up already, but I don’t have to put my contacts […]
