Loving Libraries and Rejecting Kings #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?

We had a low in the teens one night and broke a record for heat a few days later — the hottest day on record, not only for the date, but for this early in the year. The coming week won’t be quite as dramatic, but we still expect a temperature range of sixty degrees, a lack of stability that feels abnormal.

What are you reading?

I reviewed This is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan for British Isles Friday — a book about feminism and enthusiasms that made me happy to read. Thanks to Sarah for the recommendation.

I just finished The Astral Library by Kate Quinn. What a delightful book for library and book lovers! I recommend it, even if fantasy isn’t usually your thing.

Next up, I’ll try Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship by Annabel Abbs-Streets. Is anyone else skeptical of novels with subtitles? It makes me think it’s trying too hard and that it can’t stand on its own merits. But, I’ll give it a chance for a few pages, at least.

What are you watching or listening to?

We’re enjoying Riot Women on BritBox. Fun to see a show that’s about women, most of them over 50.

Now that I finished the first season of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, I’m going back to watch the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds that I somehow missed last year.

What are you doing?

I’m preparing for the NO KINGS protest on Saturday. I’ll manage our usual Black Lives Matter vigil, first, and then head over to the big St. Louis County gathering and join it in progress.

I’ll probably hold one of our Black Lives Matter signs. I saw a protest sign online that said “If Only Y’all Had Listened to Black Women” which is a more in-your-face version of what I mean when I hold a Black Lives Matter sign at these protests. We could have got the country going on a good path in the mid-2010s after the Ferguson Uprising. Instead, we elected a white supremacist patriarch.

What will your sign say on Saturday?

Comments

Loving Libraries and Rejecting Kings #SundaySalon — 5 Comments

Deb Nance at Readerbuzz on March 22, 2026 at 10:23 am said:

I will be going to No Kings next Saturday. I’m working on my sign.

I liked Astral Library and Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen. I hope to cook something from the cookbook the real Eliza published. After I read Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen, I downloaded a free copy of the cookbook from Project Gutenberg.

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Anne@HeadFullofBooks on March 22, 2026 at 4:03 pm said:

I need to go to the Office store to get some cardboard to make a sign to hold for Saturday. I understand our local gathering will be on a an overpass, so I may not stay all three hours. But it means my sign needs to be clear and simple.

My Sunday Salon: https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2026/03/sunday-salon-97.html

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mae on March 22, 2026 at 5:23 pm said:

So many appealing books and TV shows are on right this minute — it’s hard to keep up, and also impressive that different people (bloggers) can read and watch many different things that are all good.

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hena on March 23, 2026 at 3:53 pm said:

Thank you for going out there are protesting. It gives us all hope that not all is rotten in the world.

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Susan on March 25, 2026 at 6:15 pm said:

Yeah even though I live in Canada I’m pumped for the No Kings protests. I was going to fly to Denver for it but had to use the travel for some family time later in April. Hope you have a big big turnout ! Go!

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