The Sunday Salon - October 31


Happy Halloween everybody! We will be hanging out during home currently as well as maybe doing a little trick-or-treating on our street.

My husband carved a pumpkin for any of us this year. For me he carved David Tennant as Doctor Who with a Police Box. David Tennant is my a a single preferred Doctor Who, so we was very excited when my husband found a template which featured him.


For himself he carved Puss-n-Boots (from Shrek 2). we consider which this a single incited out a many suitable out of all of them. He originally longed for to do a Calvin as well as Hobbes pumpkin, though decided on something simpler since he'd already been figure for hours (he carved his last). He ended up spending 4 as well as a half hours total figure a pumpkins.


My sons longed for Super Mario Bros. themed pumpkins. Bowser is a fierce horned animal above.


And a final character is named "Boo," which seems wholly suitable for Halloween.

Today we will be celebration of a mass The Waters Rising by Sheri S. Tepper. we started it final Sunday as well as didn't make very much swell (partly because we spent many of a week catching up on my M! usashi r eading). There is a lot of information about a fantasy universe during a beginning as well as it really slows a plot, though I've liked Sheri Tepper's past books enough to hang with this a single in hopes which it gets better.


Last Week we Reviewed:

Poisoned Pens by Gary Dexter
Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery


Last Week we Finished Reading:

This category would be some-more appropriately labeled "Last Week we Finished Nothing." I've just been picking divided during all of a books I'm celebration of a mass though haven't done a lot of swell other than catching up to where I'm ostensible to be with a Musashi readalong.


Finished as well as Still Waiting to be Reviewed:

Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder
I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg
Before we Fall by Lauren Oliver
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Audiobook)
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Take Good Care of a Garden as well as a Dogs by Heather Lende
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint


Currently Reading:

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
Harry Potter as well as a Order of a Phoenix (Audiobook)
The Mirror Crack'd by Agatha Christie
This is No Drill by Henry Berry
The Waters Rising by Sheri S. Tepper
The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama


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