The Sunday Salon: Lunch + Bloggers + Book Shopping = BLISS

Yesterday, a group of us bloggers met for lunch in Santa Barbara. Helen, offered up her home, which was very nice of her, and we had a fabulous time. The Hub and kids dropped me off at her house and then headed to the beach. Don’t you love it? I go off to enjoy “me” [...]

The Sunday Salon: Bookish Weekend Fun

The Los Angeles Time Festival of Books was this weekend. It’s a 2-day event but I only attended on Saturday. What made it even more fun is that I got to hook-up with some other bloggers. We met up for some early morning refreshments and then went our separate ways to browse the tents and [...]

My Shelves Overfloweth

I am usually pretty good at pacing my reading to include a couple of review copies, along with a book or two that I am reading just for fun. However, due to the generosity of several bloggers and publishers, I have a nice, healthy stack of books that I must get to within the next [...]

The Sunday Salon: Love Spring. Hate Spring Forward.

Today is just gorgeous! That’s why this post is coming to you so late. I’ve been out and about soaking up the sun and loving every minute of it. EXCEPT, I do not love Spring Forward at all. I’ve been battling a tiny head cold all weekend and although it’s just a head cold, I [...]

My Top 5 Books for 2009

   A lot of you are in the process of picking your top books for 2009 and many of you are choosing books that came out in 2009. Well, for me… this list is made up of books that I read in 2009. A couple of them (I realize) came out quite a bit before [...]