Travel the World in Books #Readathon #SundaySalon
The scene: // Hot, hot, hot. Our first real heat wave of the summer. We’re expected to get to three digits today. St. Louisans aren’t mad dogs or Englishmen, so the chaos that made the news last week has calmed for now. Michael Brown’s funeral is tomorrow. Please pray for the family, the thousands of mourners who are expected, and the many people (including the police) who are tasked with keeping this whole thing well-organized.
Listening to: // Spotify has a version of John Barrowman’s new album, You Raise Me Up, with commentary from the singer for each track. He does covers, so it’s fun to hear the story about why he wanted to record each one. I’m really enjoying it.
Reading: // The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. Thanks to Judith of Leeswammes’ Blog for this recommendation. It’s taking me on a walk across England.
Blogging about: // How British I am. Heh. Or not. But it sure was fun to answer the questions in The British Tag!
Participating in// The Travel the World Readathon, taking place for the first two weeks of September, invites us to read books from other countries. This event will include chats, mini-challenges, and giveaways is hosted by Mom’s Small Victories, Lost in Books, and Savvy Working Gal.
Since I’ve been reading books about England all year, it wouldn’t be much of a challenge for me to read yet another book by a white author about England. So, I’m looking into black British authors and I found some exciting possibilities. I’ll let you know what I decide in my Travel the World Readathon goal post on Friday.
I love the idea of a Travel the World Readathon. I’m thinking about doing a once-a-month read aloud to my library classes of a book from another part of the world, so this readathon might be a great way to preview the books I’m considering. Thank you, Joy!
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Love your idea of read-aloud books from around the world! Previewing them as part of the Readathon will be fun.
I hope you enjoy The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry as much as I did. It was one of my recent favorites, even though it was a bit sentimental and maybe sappy to some, but for me, it was the right book at the right time. Hopefully, it will be for you too.
I’m enjoying it so far — glad to hear that you liked it, too.
I LOVE the idea of a travel read-athon. I think I will check it out, as well as your recent book, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 🙂
So glad you are joining us Joy! It should be a fun couple weeks, I am so excited to share purjtrips around the world with each other.
I like the idea of this readathon! I’ll probably check it out. Have a good week.
I loved Harold Fry – it was a bit unbelievable in one part but overall a really good book. thanks for the link to the travel the world readathon. will take a look
Happy to learn you are joining us for the readathon. I now know who to ask for NF recommendations when I get to England. I plan to travel to 50 countries in 5 years through NF.
So, far my favorite NF choices for England were London Under and Longitude.