My bookmarks haven't really made any progress through anything this week as I am still visiting with the African American modiste who became close friends with Mary Todd Lincoln and I am still immersed in the amazing confluence of events that happened in the summer of 1927. I did manage to complete my visit with a quirky young Jewish woman who inherits a fish service from her aunt and becomes the repository of the stories of an entire town from before WWII told to her by a seemingly random older woman in Israel. Where did your reading take you this week?
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Sunday Salon: In which I am busy but not really with books
My bookmarks haven't really made any progress through anything this week as I am still visiting with the African American modiste who became close friends with Mary Todd Lincoln and I am still immersed in the amazing confluence of events that happened in the summer of 1927. I did manage to complete my visit with a quirky young Jewish woman who inherits a fish service from her aunt and becomes the repository of the stories of an entire town from before WWII told to her by a seemingly random older woman in Israel. Where did your reading take you this week?
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I think it sounded like you had a great week and you shouldn't have any regrets or worry about excuses :). As for my own reading, I only read one book this past week and it was at the end of the week: Police by Jo Nesbo. It was really, really good.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you had a good week. Sometimes we just can't get any reading done. :)
ReplyDeleteI finished THE OUTCASTS and am almost done with ONCE WE WERE BROTHERS. Review of THE OUTCASTS is on my blog. The review of ONCE WE WERE BROTHERS will be up this evening when I finish the book.
ENJOY your upcoming week.
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