Sunday Salon

My first Sunday Salon post.


What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them, and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....

That's what happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual. Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book. See below for how to join the Salon.

This week has been busy and i'm still  reading The Postmistress by Sarah Blake . I'm about halfway through and its turning out to be a pretty good read.   At first I was confused by the quick shift in character but after reading Sarah Blakes explanation of her writing, I could picture it clearly in my mind and I can understand now why she wrote it the way she did. 

I'm also working on Hard Way Home by 

Dennis Wesley Clark. Although I haven't read much of it this week but my goal is to finish it by the end of the week.

My goal is also  to finish The Postmistress by the end of the week. Hmmm, I  guess that means staying off of the computer.

So heres my to be read pile

 

My next read are the two books I won from the Early Reader at the Library Thing. 

The first is a book called The Book of Samuel by Erik Raschke .  After reading the reviews on Library Thing, I hope I can read it!

After that is Double Cross by James David Jordan.Sounded mysterious and suspensful . From Amazon:  

 Raised by a father who was a former Special Forces officer, Taylor is beautiful and brilliant and knows how to take care of herself. But she is haunted by her past and the sacrifice her father made to save her from a brutal rape when she was seventeen. After a controversial stint in the Secret Service, she has become the most prominent private security specialist in America. When she discovers the body of a former client’s top assistant, all the evidence points to embezzlement and suicide. But Taylor has no way of knowing that her mother, who ran out when Taylor was nine, is about to reappear and lead her down a twisting path of danger and deceit. It’s a road that won’t end until they reach the spot where Taylor’s father died—where Taylor learns some sacrifices can never be earned. 

 Other news - my husband will be laid off next week. Construction must be slowing down. I just hope there will be some work to carry through to Christmas. Its to depressing to be broke during the holidays. I just want my son to have a nice birthday and Christmas. 

My  husband and son are really into Star Trek. Not the original but The Next Generation and they've seen all of those videos and now they're into Deep Space Nine. Soooo Christmas and Birthday gifts should be prettty eaassyyy.

I took some pictures of Tobey in his favorite climbing tree today. This is one of them.  I took about 10 and had a hard time picking my fav. I think this one is my fav.

He'll be 9 in December! Wish I had a recent picture of my daughter, she'll be 23 in December.  Wow , why does time go by so fast. 

There are a LOT of awesome giveaways and I'm on my laptop or I'd list the sites. As soon as I get on my other computer I'll add the sites. I really want to read Nine Dragons my Michael Connelly and Cindy Woodsmalls newest book The Sound of Sleigh Bells . So i've entered some giveaways for those. I've noticed there are quite a few giveaways for romance type books and I'm just not into those types of books.

I hope you all have a wonderful, successfull reading week!!

A New Addition to Our Family!

We've been looking for a small dog for my son and yesterday we found one at the Humane Society. I highly recommend the Humane Society, the one we went to was so clean and it didn't smell. They are very strict about hand washing to.
His name is Nacho, he's 7mo. according to the H.S. He's part Miniature Pinscher and Healer.
So far he's done very well adapting to his new home. He hasn't barked at all but when he does bark its the high pitched yapping, so we're hoping he doesn't start barking!!
My son hasn't left his side, he just loves him!