Sunday Salon for 21 January 2024
Happy Sunday! Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at ReaderBuzz. Check out her post and the links to see what other bloggers have been up to in the last week.
How’s the weather?
We had a couple of days over freezing earlier this week. We’re to the point of the winter where mid to upper 30s feels like great walking weather. We dipped back into the deep freeze yesterday, so it’s a good thing we got a couple of walks completed. We’ll get back above freezing on Monday, but that will be accompanied by rain. So, I’m appreciating the coziness of my house and the energy of YouTube exercise videos.
What are you reading?
I’m nearly done listening to The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, even though I haven’t had many walks which are my favorite time to consume audiobooks. I’m finding odd moments of the day to listen because I’m fully captivated.
I finished and reviewed The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll this week. I’m still experimenting with how I want to include that in my other planning structures.
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb was my first book read in 2024 and the first book that our book group discussed in 2024, on Thursday. I posted the review Saturday so that I could capture the thoughts of the group as well as my own. We really liked it and we’re so looking forward to the author’s visit to our community next month.
What are you watching?
I had two posts this week about things I watched, too.
I celebrated Cary Grant’s 120th birthday on Thursday with a review of Archie, the new bio-pic mini-series on BritBox that includes the history of his childhood in Bristol and several trips back to England in his later years.
Emma is the third of four movies featured in Jane Austen January, hosted by Erin at Cracker Crumb Life and Lisa at Boondock Ramblings. For my British Isles Friday posts, I’m enjoying the fantasy travel of exploring the film locations for each movie. One of the film locations for Emma was Mapperton, the seat of the Earl of Sandwich, a country house that I’m very familiar with.
Another Emma film location was Claydon House, a home to Florence Nightingale.
What are you doing?
I wrote another post this week (five posts in one week is a lot for me!). The Top Ten Tuesday topic at That Artsy Reader Girl was Bookish Goals for 2024. That was a fun post to write, and I enjoyed reading other people’s posts on the topic, too.
How are you this fine Sunday?