Books and Movies

Didn’t we just do this? This week flew by - probably because it is our last week of summer vacation. Our homeschool year starts tomorrow. I’m excited, actually, simply because I’m ready to have a normal schedule back. The summer was fun, but crazy busy. And even though we start school on Monday, on Wednesday we’ll have one last summer fling when I take the kids here.

Okay, on to the reason we do The Sunday Salon - books!

I finished three books this week. I may finish one more today - depending on how much time I squeeze in.

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro - review here.

Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir by Jennette Fulda - review here.

The Cross-Time Engineer (Book 1 in The Adventures of Conrad Stargard) by Leo Frankowski - review here.

I’m about halfway through Guernica by Dave Boling, and may finish it today. It’s a beautifully-written historical novel about the Basque region of Spain in the years leading up to World War II. It’s the kind of book that leaves me in a quandry - I want to know what happens to the characters, but if I finish it, it will be over, and the writing is so beautiful I want to savor it. Sigh.

I’m also reading The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, at my daughter Natalie’s request. She loved this book, and since she often takes my reading recommendations, I try to reciprocate. I’m only one chapter in so far.

Well, I’m off to read about the books the rest of you are reading this Sunday!

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