Welcome to the Sunday Salon! A Monday-Sunday wrap-up? Let's see ...1) Two reviews - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (excellent audio book), and The Risk of Infidelity Index, a detective crime novel by Christopher G. Moore, set in Bangkok.
2) An interview with Kristin Bair O'Keeffe, author of Thirsty: A Novel
3) Posted a blue-grey winter photo of my snowy backyard for Wordless Wednesday
4) Wrote on the prompt, fortune, for the 100-Word Writing Challenge
5) Posted a book giveaway for the wine memoir, Corked.
6) Accepted two awards and passed them on: The Honest Scrap Award and the One Lovely Blog Award.
I wrested off part of my winter cocoon this weekend and ventured out after the sun came out and started to melt the foot of snow outside. I even did some chores, including opening a bunch of packages with books! that came in the mail, and updating the list of books to read and review. I love making that list, but Sigh! Do I really do this for free? Yes, just because I love the 2 Rs - reading and writing. (I dropped the 3rd R - Rithmatic - some years ago.)
Am also getting more creative with food - Greek zuchini fritters with feta cheese; omlettes with cheese, parsley, onions, and watercress; fresh coconuts for the juice and soft meat. Anything to get in the required servings of three veggies and three servings of fruit each day - healthy eating tips I got from Denise's Daily Dozen. It's becoming quite an adventure.
Forgot to mention I received the audio book I won, The Swan Thieves, and am setting aside some quiet time to listen to the 17 discs. Maybe I'll keep it for mid-March.
One more thing, we are enjoying the skiing, skating, bobsledding, and curling, yes curling! competitions in Vancouver. I think I'd like to try my hand at curling, though I'm sure it's not as easy as it looks.
What did you do last week?
I read Water for Elephants earlier this year and absolutely loved it. I also had The Swan Thieves in my hand yesterday at Barnes and Noble but bought Need by Carrie Jones instead. Kinda regretting that now.
ReplyDeleteI am addicted to Olympic curling as well. I watch every match. I am rooting for Canada and Sweden. The only way I will allow myself to miss a match is if Canada is playing hockey.
I'm glad to that Water for Elephants was a great audiobook! I loved reading it, but would enjoy listening to it all over again!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE curling! I actually curled last year and found out how HARD it actually is physically! After squatting a zillion times to toss that incredibly heavy stone I could hardly walk up the stairs the first night I played!
Have a great week!
I've been looking for a good audio book. I think I'll check my library for Water for Elephants.
ReplyDeleteI love all the sports! We're kind of obsessed here :)
ReplyDeleteSome time frames are so difficult - so many choices to watch!!
The Canadian kids are doing so well :)
1. That food sounds so good.
ReplyDelete2. Winter sounds so good. I went for a walk with my boys this afternoon and that meant sunburns and dehydration and heat exhaustion. It's late Feb! Holy donkeys it shouldn't be so hot! :D Stupid texas.
BTW,I gave you an award. Check it out at http://socratesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2010/02/another-award.html
ReplyDeleteI think it is always fun when you get creative with food and enjoy it!! What are we going to do when the Olympics are over????
ReplyDeleteOh I bet Water For Elephants is good on Audio. I read this book last year and really enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteI loved Water for Elephants too! It sounds like you had a busy week. Yay for sun and warm weather!
ReplyDeleteI loved Water for Elephants as well, and I am a bit jealous you won the audio of Swan Thieves...enjoy.
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