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 near record highs on Friday and Saturday. We’ll be back to more normal November temperatures for the coming week, but it was kind of fun to have one last blast of summer.

What are you reading?

I’m making progress in my nonfiction reading for November.

The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography by Janine Barchas and Isabel Greenberg was a Nonfiction November success story. I learned about it from another blogger’s first post for the event. The library came through with a copy quickly for me. I read it and posted my review on Friday. I recommend The Novel Life of Jane Austen for anyone who wants to find a quick way to honor Jane Austen ahead of her 250th birthday on December 16.

It’s taking much longer to read the biography Jane Austen at Home, even though it’s delightfully written by one of my favorite British historians, Lucy Worsley. I should get it finished in time to review for this Friday’s post.

I still have one Jane Austen history book to read — Jane Austen’s Christmas by Maria Hubert. I borrowed that via Interlibrary Loan. It’s due on November 28 and it’s complicated to attempt to renew it. Jane Austen’s Christmas looks like a fun and pleasant book, so I shouldn’t have too much trouble.

The other nonfiction book that I’m reading this month is my book group’s selection for Native American Heritage month: Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing.

What are you watching or listening to?

We’re between things at the moment but we’re going to see if we like Death by Lightning on Netflix tonight. People who have seen it say that I want to learn more about President James Garfield. That surprises me, but I’ll give it a shot.

I’m also looking forward to Ken Burns’ The American Revolution on PBS.

What are you doing?

Giving away things. I went through our pantry and pulled some items that were fun for parties and holidays in the past, but aren’t part of how we observe special times in our present. I hoped that by posting them in mid-November, they could be useful in the coming festive season. It seems to have worked. People are excited by these offerings.

I posted in my local Buy Nothing group on Facebook. Ours is a hopping place, but I suspect that these might function best in mid-sized suburbs. Do you participate in one?