The Sunday Salon - September 26


This week you added piano lessons (for a boys) as well as flute lessons (that you teach) in to a schedule. Imagine me using behind as well as forth spinning plates upon rootless sticks - that's what my report feels similar to right now. We also took care of some dentist appointments. It seems similar to a doctor's visits have been never-ending each fall, what with a flu-shots, physicals, eye exams, as well as dental check-ups.

One of a highlights of my week was a living room book sale upon Friday morning. you usually paid for 8 books, as well as most of them were essentially upon my instruct list already as well as in illusory condition.

Yesterday you picked up a popcorn supply for a Cub Scout fundraisers. Later in a evening my son got to outlay two hours offered some-more popcorn in a counter down at a play ground (because there was a legal holiday there this weekend). you was amazed at how much he loved offered a popcorn with a alternative scouts. I'll be vehement yet when fund raising accomplished at a end of October as well as you can move upon with alternative Cub Scout activities. We're formulation to do a little bit of door-to-door sales today, supposing you am in a good sufficient mood for it.

Today if you have time to fit in some celebration of a mass you will probably review some-more of Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa (for a Musashi Readalong over at Jenners' brand new blog Life...With Books.


Last Week you Reviewed:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Love as well as Pollywogs from Camp Calamity by Mary Hershey
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins


Last Week you Finished Reading:

Valeria's Last Stand by Marc Fitten


Finished as well as Still Waiting t! o be Rev iewed:

If a Tree Falls by Jennifer Rosner
In Arabian Nights by Tahir Shah
Matched by Ally Condie
Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Audiobook)
Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery (Audiobook)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson


Currently Reading:

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Audiobook)
Harry Potter as well as a Order of a Phoenix (Audiobook)
The Link by Colin Tudge
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Take Good Care of a Garden as well as a Dogs by Heather Lende


Abandoned:

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray - you think you could have accomplished this one had you been in a mood, though I'm already celebration of a mass so many books right now, as well as it was due at a library, so you motionless to abandon it. In a prolonged run you don't think it was a undiluted fit for me anyway, though a writing was good even if you wasn't in to a story so much (it's tough to describe alternative than to say it's kind of an peculiar story as well as that it takes place in a Catholic boys' propagandize in Ireland).


Giveaways:

September Bookshelf Cleaning (4 Books) - ends 9/26
The Financial Lives of a Poets Giveaway - ends 10/3

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