Fine Romances #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?
I’m not about to complain about a high of 75 degrees on August 1st, even if it did come with some rain and a lot clouds. I can reframe this weather as cozy and romantic. I’m hoping that we have already passed the hottest part of summer, but we’ll see. We sometimes get to 95 in September.
What are you listening to?
If you experienced Moon Joy along with me during the Artemis II mission, then I recommend listening to Hank Green interview Astronaut Reid Wiseman on the podcast Humans. It all came flooding back to me and I loved getting to be part of that romance with the universe and, especially, with earth and earthlings, again.
What are you reading?
I’ve been enjoying two books that have a lot in common — both are illustrated, both are travel journals, and both include the nonfiction romance of the author and how it plays out while traveling with one’s partner.
I finished Le Road Trip: A Traveler’s Journal of Love and France by Vivian Swift just in time to post it for Paris in July.
I’m currently reading A Fine Romance by Susan Branch about her road trip in England with her husband. In A Fine Romance, Branch mentions reading Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson and that it contributed to her love of England. That book worked in the same way for me! Both of those titles made an appearance in this morning’s fun game of Six Degrees of Separation.
What are you watching?
We enjoyed watching The Other Bennet Sister that tells the story of Mary, the sister who remains unmarried at the end of Pride and Prejudice. Naturally, it includes some romance and quite a bit of anti-romance so that Mary could explore the option of remaining single.
Now, we’re watching a bunch of Barbara Stanwyck’s movies, some of which are romances. We started with the older ones and some of them are quite bad but fun to watch, even when the plot falls apart and the characterization never quite arrives. I got on this kick after watching this wonderful documentary on YouTube by Be Kind Rewind, my favorite channel for learning about film history:
How are you this fine Sunday?