Missouri River #SundaySalon

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?

After a few hot days, we have another short spell of fall-like weather. I took advantage of a cooler day with a breeze to walk along the Missouri River. Here’s a photo of some debris from the flooding a couple of months ago. The boat in the distance is a dredger. We humans have this thing about rivers — they’re always too high or too low and we want to fix that.

What are you reading?

I finished the audio book of Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros this week, after listening to the first book in the series, Fourth Wing, last month. Goodreads says that I’ll have to wait until next year for the third book in the series and that a fourth has been announced. This is a terrific series for people who don’t mind reading about sex and violence. If your idea of escape is to be immersed in a different world, with dragons and telepathy and other powers, these books will work for you.

I’m nearly done reading The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie, just in time to review it on Friday for my annual Agatha Christie birthday post.

That means that I’ll be starting two new books this week.

Audio: Mrs. Porter Calling by AJ Pearce– the third in the series that began with Dear Mrs. Bird
Ebook: The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

What are you watching?

We finally finished watching The Good Wife, so we started watching the spinoff The Good Fight. In between, we took a break to watch Monsieur Spade — Clive Owen played an older Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon and other stories by Dashiell Hammett) who moved to France after World War II.

What are you doing?

I’m reworking the plot of my novel to improve it ahead of writing my second draft.

How are you this fine Sunday?

Comments

Missouri River #SundaySalon — 9 Comments

Susan on September 7, 2024 at 6:29 pm said:

Nice photo of the Missouri River … we have seen the Missouri in Montana … it’s quite pretty. It sure travels a long ways. We enjoyed The Good Wife and the spinoff The Good Fight … both are good. I read the first AJ Pearce novel … and it’s interesting that it’s continuing. Are they all set during the war? Enjoy your weekend.

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- Joy Weese Moll on September 9, 2024 at 10:34 am said:
  
  Yes. Pearl Harbor happens in the second book. I just started the third book and it’s in the spring of 1943. So, there’s still a lot of war left.
  
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Erin @ Cracker Crumb Life on September 8, 2024 at 7:32 am said:

I am glad that you had some nice weather this week! We did too – it was nice to get outside a bit more!

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Deb Nance at Readerbuzz on September 8, 2024 at 8:20 am said:

We got some cooler weather yesterday, and I’ve opened the windows for the first time in forever to celebrate. We were noticing a couple of downed trees in the bayou at the park from the hurricane and we were wondering how they would be removed.

I am on the lookout for a good science fiction or fantasy novel or series. But I think I would do better if the whole series is already published before I jump in.

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Tina on September 8, 2024 at 8:51 am said:

That’s a great photo of the river. I’ll bet you could get photos of it in different seasons and it would have a different look in each one.

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Cindy's Book Corner on September 8, 2024 at 12:28 pm said:

It is cooler here today too, was 42 when I got up and the high is 68. I don’t mind the cooler temps, I am not ready for cold yet though. Not ready to give up the summer books either. I still have a few I want to get through before fall officially hits. Have a great week!

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Jinjer on September 8, 2024 at 1:28 pm said:

Congrats on your hot weather being gone. We have today and tomorrow left in our heat wave. So cool that you can walk to the Missouri River!!! And good point about how humans are always trying to change the rivers up. The Los Angeles river was turned into a cement channel by the Army Corps of Engineers because people got tired of it flooding in the 1930s.

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Literary Feline on September 9, 2024 at 12:43 pm said:

I miss living near a river. One of my favorite memories of living in Northern California was walking along the Sacramento River as often as I could. It’s been so hot here and today is not only hot but smokey. I’m keeping inside as much as possible. I hope you are enjoying your reading! Have a great week, Joy!

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Alana on September 21, 2024 at 3:03 pm said:

Well, it’s Saturday, but I found your photo of the Missouri of interest. We’ve had river flooding several times in the nearly 40 years I’ve lived in the area of the Susquehanna River in New York. There’s a lot of work in cleanup, but we also depend so much on our rivers. What am I reading? Two books. First, By Any Other Name, by Jodi Picault. It’s the second book I’ve read by her (the first being Wish You Were Here, which I loved) and I appreciate the vast amount of research she put into this historical novel based on the theory that a woman wrote the plays by Shakespeare but had to have them published and credited to a male actor because women just did not write plays. I have a feeling it’s going to be longer than it should have been however. The other is my first Walter Mosley book, Futureland. So far I’m loving it, too.

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