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The Sunday Salon: Bookish Weekend Fun

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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 to attend the panels. Some of us met-up for dinner too. It was a really fun day.

You see that stack above? That’s what I ended up buying.

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (attended his discussion and I am reading this book for book club next month)
Tinkers by Paul Harding (attended a panel that had him on it and he just recently won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (those that know about my battle with food allergies won’t be surprised to find this on my shelf)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (I’ve never read Austen, and a few of you on Facebook insisted I read this one first)

LA Times Festival of Books

I’ll share additional pictures and more information on the panels within a separate post. After a particularly bad allergic reaction, I actually lost my hearing yesterday so that post will have to wait. It’s back now but I’m still a bit out of it.

The Sunday Salon

This week I am reviewing The Queen of Palmyra and there will be another installment for Wuthering Heights Wednesday. The rest if up in the air at the moment. I am actively reading First They Killed My Father. It’s great, but tough to read due to the subject matter.

Hope your Sunday is treating you well.

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The Sunday Salon: The Calm Before the Storm

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This week has been on the slow side for me which is sort of nice. I haven’t gotten much reading done but the house is clean and the fridge is stocked. I don’t know about you but I can’t completely unwind when I know that there is laundry to do or shopping to be done so now that that’s out-of-the-way perhaps I can sit a bit.

Nope. My daughter has a girlfriend coming over to play for a couple of hours so my plans to relax may not happen for a couple of more hours.

On a happy note, I got my tickets to the panels that I plan to attend at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books which is next weekend. Their site has been down all day long so don’t expect that link to work, but I printed off what I needed the night before (whew!) and went straight to Ticketmaster to get my tickets. I purchased way more than I plan to attend but I like to have options. Once the day arrives, I may change my mind so it’s good to be prepared. A bunch of us bloggers plan to meet-up and hopefully have dinner afterward. It promises to be a good time.

Next weekend is also when The Hub moves the family business. Yep, he is doing this while I am at the Festival of Books (how dare he!). Anyway, he’s all stressed and sort of crabby and he’ll be gone much of the week packing and tossing and doing what you do to move a business that has been in the same location for 25+ years. It’s going to be a rough weekend but hopefully there won’t be any huge issues and things will go smoothly.

Today I plan to finish This World That We Live In and then write-up my post for Wuthering Heights Wednesday which is proving to be much more enjoyable than I anticipated. I have many books to read but if this headache does not go away I may not pick up another book tonight. I need to be in tip-top shape for next weekend so I am taking some extra C’s and hoping that this headache is just that, and not the sign of something to come.

What about you? What are you doing today and do you have anything interesting planned for the week?

Oh, and what do you think about that volcano? All of the Pfeffer books come to mind and this volcano makes me want to go out and buy a lot of canned goods (even though I am nowhere near the volcano).