The Sunday Salon is a virtual gathering of booklovers on the web, where they blog about bookish things of the past week, visit each others weblogs, oh ā and read ;)
HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY! (Yes, I should really try to get my hands on a Ren & Stimpy dvd! ;)
Having blogged about Rei Kimura’s Butterfly in the Wind I officially accomplished my Japanese Literature Challenge for this year! But like I said in my post I will not stop at just one book.
I am also very glad I finally reviewed The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas. It was a Random Act of Bookcrossing Kindness and I read it months ago… Now the book is on its way to new readers.
More good news is that I finished To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee today. I feel really good about that, not only because it is a GREAT book and I am happy to have read it, but also because I can cross it off my personal and classics challenges. Of course I do still need to review it, especially since it is a Bookcrossing bookring. I liked To Kill a Mockingbird so much I am going to look for a nice copy to keep! There are many, many editions out there… Oops, what did I write this week about not getting any more books?? :\
The book I picked up from Mt. TBR to read next is Dutch again: Het pauperparadijs, by Suzanna Jansen. In October we’ll be having a company outing to a museum in the area that the story describes; the Gevangenismuseum (Jail Museum) is actually the last remaining building of the work-house where poor people were sometimes sent to in the 1800’s. It will be so much more fun (ahem) going there having read the book!
But for now, I am looking forward to the Book Blogger Appreciation Week, starting at midnight!
What were your bookish things this week?
Right now I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee: a Bookcrossing bookray. I like it so much I am going to look for a nice copy of my own! Oops, what did I write this week about not getting any more books?? :\
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woensdag 16 september 2009 bij 00:53
mee
Didn’t know you’re a bookcrosser too. I was quite active before there (username meexia), but not anymore since I “found” book blogging and its community. But I have lots of fond memories about bookcrossing :)
woensdag 16 september 2009 bij 12:59
gnoegnoe
How nice to meet a fellow bookcrosser! I am ‘medium active’ in bookcrossing since I maintain an obcz with a few others. But I am especially looking forward to the Bookcrossing Monopoly we are going to play soon — we did so last year and had lots of fun! You can have a look at the online playing board.
One of my fellow OBCZ-ers also mentioned that every month there’s a 24-hrs read-a-thon held on the Book Talk forum: people who join try to read for 24 hrs in one week. Sounds like fun!