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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

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cover of Julia Child Rules by Karen KarboI started a project to Live Like Julia on a dare from Karen Karbo, author of Julia Child Rules: Wanted: Bloggers to #LiveLikeJulia For One Week and Write About It. I chose Rule #6: To Be Happy, Work Hard to test-drive for a week. I shouldn’t have any problem with this today — I’m taking an on-line class and I have an assignment due! Julia Child took cooking classes in Paris, but I don’t know if she ever used them to create deadlines for herself. That method works really well for me.

On Saturday, I was too busy working to try a new Julia Child recipe for Weekend Cooking, so I put up one of my go-to recipes: Weekend Cooking: Veggie Pasta. On Sunday, I reported my Live Like Julia progress, or lack thereof, in my Sunday Salon post. Fortunately, Vasilly of 1330v pointed out in the comments that one of the other rules in Julia Child Rules is Live With Abandon, so I quit feeling guilty about my break from working hard.

Speaking of Paris, Girlxoxo published my guest post about how to learn from books about a place that you want to visit: Bloggers Recommend Summer Reads {The Learn Something New Edition}.

cover of The Whole Fromage by Kathe Lison

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For another France-themed read, I finished The Whole Fromage by Kathe Lison and wrote a post inspired by it for the From Left to Write book club: An Autobiography of Cheese: From Cheese Hater to Cheese Club Member.

And I put up book review for another book about France: Book Review: Death in the City of Light by David King.

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I have just a few pages left in Cooked by Michael Pollan. I have so many post-it notes in the book that I may write a 4-part review for my next month of Weekend Cooking posts.

Will Read

Next up, I’m going to start the Read Along book for the Back to School Reading Challenge and Wednesday Book Club: How Children Succeed — The Back to School Read Along Selection. That is, if I can snatch it back from Rick. He picked it up this evening, started at a random page in the middle, and was immediately entranced.

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It’s Monday! What Are Your Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Sheila of Book Journey. Be sure to check out her post today to see her selections and the list of links to all the other participating bloggers.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? — 14 Comments

  1. Every now and again I like to chime in on these “what I’m reading” things so here goes . . . .

    Dance With Dragons because my husband bought me the first four books so naturally I had to read the fifth. Especially since I was underwhelmed by the fourth and hoped the fifth would stir my enthusiasm up again.

    The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: Magic Marks the Spot which I’ll probably be reviewing next week in my book review blog.

    I just finished a young adult novel I hoped I would like but didn’t so I’m really hoping this one proves to be more delightful.

    How Children Succeed which I just started and so far so good. Interesting stuff. Not quite mind-blown amazing yet but hopefully soon.

  2. I really enjoyed this post! Love the “France” theme throughout your reading! I am going to have a look around and hope to be back soon! I am really trying to encourage my 11th grader to become a Librarian. She is leaning toward History “Professor”. We both love reading, the classics mostly right now.

    • One of the fun aspects of becoming a librarian is that you can get your undergraduate degree in anything you want — including history. Then you get a master’s in library science to have the credentials of a professional librarian.

  4. Live with abandon! I can imagine Julia Child saying this 🙂 I like the food theme you have going here. Like Laurel mentioned, I would snacking while reading all week! Enjoy the rest of your week.

  5. I’m glad you’re taking a break from feeling guilty. 🙂 What class are you taking? I’m curious. Have a good week, Joy.

  9. I am reading Susan Cain’s book, “Quiet” and I’m in love with it. There’s so much research being done about introversion and it’s a relief to find myself in the pages of the book. I’m having many aha moments! I discovered that I’m an extroverted/introvert as many people are so that they can live in a world that favors extroversion.

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