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Aug
31
The Sunday Salon
2008 at 6pm Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
After a few weeks of relatively blah reading, I think I’m back in the saddle…or, at least, it’s looking that way, and I hope it stays.
I started this week with a review of Stalking Irish Madness, Patrick Tracey’s travelogue-family history story of attemping to trace the roots of the schizophrenia that runs through the maternal side of his family tree.
On Monday, I created the Inside the Readers’ Studio meme, which seems to be catching on rather well (feel free to tag yourself and play along), then on Tuesday, I had a short and sweet Tuesday Thingers meditation on Library Thing authors. I’m happy to report that as a result of that post, Christopher Meeks has joined LT and hopes to be hosting an Author Chat very soon. Click here to read my review of his excellent short fiction collection Months and Seasons.
On Wednesday, I began a blog series called Adventures in Bookselling, which began with a post that has my favorite title so far: Have you hugged your feral cat today? It was so warmly received that I followed it up on Friday with a guest post from one of my coworkers: The Glass Menage a Trois.
In between, I participated in a Booking Through Thursday discussion about why I read and wrote a review of Dick Meyer’s Why We Hate Us, which is one of the best books I’ve read in a very long time.
After a long day of work on Friday, I boarded a plane to come to Kansas City for a friend’s wedding. Thanks to delayed flights, I got almost all the way through American Wife, which I finished last night and reviewed here this morning.
I’m now about 80 pages into After the Fire: A True Story of Friendship and Survival by Robin Gaby Fisher. When the publicist for this book initially contacted me, I was hesitant to accept because it’s not the type of book I would normally read—I don’t really go for the whole “tragic experience turned heartwarming/uplifting/inspirational story” thing, but I decided to give it a shot, and so far, I’m glad I did.
Now it’s time to get fancy and have a good time at a HUGE wedding.
What are you doing this weekend?
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Wow, you’ve had quite a week! I’m still looking forward to “American Wife,” even though it’s getting mixed reviews. I’ve also got the Patrick Tracey “Irish Madness” book on my list of books to look at – sounds interesting. Have fun at the wedding.
I loved the summary of your week, which inspired me to go back and catch up with all your posts!
I’m really laughing at the feral cat story – we were visiting our friends at their cottage yesterday, and their neighbors have two feral cats as pets (!) who kept sneaking out from under the porch to tease our dogs.
I enjoyed the reviews – I’m ordering Why We Hate Us for my son, who frequently blogs on this very subject
That is so awesome about Christopher Meeks joining LT! I’m reading Months and Seasons right now! I’ll definitely look him up. I also enjoyed your meme. It was a lot of fun, but compared to others, I feel like a cussing heathen.
I don’t know how I feel about American Wife. Devourer of Books really liked it. I don’t really like reading overtly political books about current day. I get tired of hearing and reading about those people IRL. Why would I want to read a fictionalized account – especially that potentially offensive part?