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The Sunday Salon: Sunday, really?

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Sunday Salon

It’s one of those long weekends that you just want to savor, but the time is zipping by again (for me anyway). If I could push a pause button, I would.

Yesterday, we celebrated a friend’s 75th birthday at a local Mexican restaurant. We had a private room and it was a lot of fun. The margaritas were flowing and the food was good and everyone had a great time. Afterward, we all headed back to our friend’s house to have coffee and dessert.

Coffee duty was mine, because it was one of those big coffee makers and I had used one before for PTO (that makes me a professional), but I measured something wrong because that coffee could have burned a whole through your stomach. My heart was beating out of my chest for hours afterward. I have to tell you, I worried about some of those older folks as I laid my head down to sleep. They were drinking it like it was going out of style!

Today, I’ve done nothing but errands. I did manage to squeeze a nice lunch in with The Fam, but now we are just sitting around being lazy. I was supposed to write-up two reviews, but my review mojo is nowhere to be found at the moment. In a little while, we may head over to a friend’s house for tacos but it’s windy as heck and cold! What happened to our warm weather?

If we don’t go, I will hunker down with In Stiches by Anthony Youn. It’s pretty funny and Tony is like several of the boys I knew in high school. Oh! I have book club on Thursday and I still haven’t read the book (The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet). I started it, but got stuck. I mean, REALLY stuck. Has anyone read it? Does the story move along at some point?

To all who attended BEA and BBC, welcome back and to everyone else, happy Sunday to you!

Note: I am having trouble posting comments on some of your Blogger blogs. It’s not recognizing my Google account or even letting me post anonymously. I mentioned it to some of you but if you’ve been wondering why I haven’t stopped by, this is why. I’ve been reading, but can’t always comment. I know some others are experiencing the same problem. Not sure what to do about it.

Bookish Talk, Life

Why I’m Not a “Joiner”

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This has been a busy week for the book world. At the time of this writing, BEA is in full swing and Book Blogger Con will shortly follow. So many of my blogging friends are in NYC to experience both of these events, and I am here.

Why am I here?

Well, some of it has to do with money, much of it has to do with time (like, I have none) but the real reason is that I don’t enjoy these type of events. Not usually. I find them to be completely overwhelming to my OCD-planner-self, and what I like best about blogging are the interactions I have with people and I don’t feel as if I can accomplish that during an event as large as BEA.

This post from Wallace confirms it for me.

What I would like, are the dinners, impromptu bookstore visits, the museum trips and perhaps even a show with bloggers who I’ve grown to like very much. Yes, there is the mutual excitement over books that we share, but I’d be the one setting up all the social hook-ups and honestly, much of it probably would not center around the Javits center. Have I ever told you how much I hate crowds?

Several bloggers have brought up the networking aspect. There’s that, but everyone I want to know I’ve reached out to on my own or am working up the courage to do so (like my love, Jo Nesbø. LOL).  I guess what I’m saying is that if you are wondering why I am not there, posting fabulous updates or even participating in Armchair BEA, I’d have to say that I’m just not much of a “joiner.”

Although I am not a joiner, I still feel pretty connected with what’s going on and although I don’t participate in many of the group events like Armchair BEA and lately the Read-a-Thon, it doesn’t mean that I don’t support those efforts, because I do. It just means that I’m content with what I have here, in my little blog world and that I am more than satisfied with the wonderful people I’ve come across AND, I worry about loading up your readers with post after post about a given topic.

I’m here for the reading, and the people and don’t care too much about the other stuff. That said, I hope you have a fabulous Friday and to my blogger friends in NYC, hope you have a safe trip home!