Off to Yellowstone!

I'm headed to Yellowstone Park on Tuesday. I worked in the park forty years ago, so this is a highly anticipated return visit. I'll be gone for most of the next two weeks, but I hope to blog a bit while I'm off in the wilds of Wyoming. For now, I've reviewed everything I've read recently.

What I Finished Recently cover title author review New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City Powers, William In New Slow City, William Powers, after living happily and simply in a twelve-by-twelve cabin (a story recounted in the appropriately named Twelve-by-...more  Troy Geras, Adèle I started out a little hesitant about this story. I wasn't sure what I thought about the oh-so-human gods popping into the story, but it gradually wor...more  Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education Robinson, Ken Ken Robinson is determined to help education, and I think Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education is his best effort...more  O's Little Book of Happiness Magazine, O, The Oprah O's Little Book of Happiness is exactly what the title states: little stories about everyday happinesses. I swear that I could physically feel little ...more  Eight Hundred Grapes Dave, Laura Eight hundred grapes. That’s how many grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine. Georgia Ford should know this; she grew up in her family’s vineyard. A...more  Lists of Note Usher, Shaun It doesn’t get better than this: a collection of memorable and not-so-memorable lists, clever and pedestrian lists, surprising and poignant lists from ...more  In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette Sides, Hampton Is In the Kingdom of Ice the best nonfiction I’ve read this year? you ask. It just might be. But how can that be? you continue. Didn’t you also read t ...more  Crêpes by Suzette‎ Wellington, Monica It was the Paris setting that persuaded me to review my first-ever book app. Crêpes by Suzette is a book app that was developed from the children's pic ...more  Go Set a Watchman Lee, Harper I’ll go ahead and say it: I like it. Of course I am disappointed in Atticus; on the other hand, he is a bit more human. Of course I see that the writi ...more  Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris Liebling, A.J. If you have never had the experience of reading the prose of one of those old, amazing newspapermen, Liebling is your fellow. And where does he take y...more  Paris by Pastry: Stalking the Sweet Life on the Streets of Paris Mitchell, Joyce Slayton Do you need a guide to the best pastries of Paris? There can be no guide more complete than this one. Mind the copyright date, of course, but give thi...more  The Little Paris Bookshop George, Nina Sometimes books are begun with a fabulous idea. That, I think, is the way this one began. Here’s the idea: A man sells therapeutic books from his boat...more  The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles, #1) Aiken, Joan Whew. Wolves attacking railway cars. Wolves attacking people. Wolves everywhere. But that’s just one plot point and it’s not the main one. The main sto ...more Harriet the Spy (Harriet the Spy #1) Fitzhugh, Louise Harriet loves to write down everything in her notebook. Some of it is nice. Some of it is not-so-nice. And then Harriet loses her notebook. And then Ha ...more  Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer Lende, Heather  Heather Lende writes obituaries in her little town in Alaska. Through interviewing the deceased’s survivors, Lende has learned all the important thing ...more  Rising Strong Brown, Brené  Brene Brown has stoked up the conversation about the power of vulnerability. In Rising Strong, Brown reminds us of the downside of vulnerability: when...more  Anna, Banana, and the Monkey in the Middle(Anna, Banana book 2) Rissi, Anica Mrose  Oh my. Here we go...imagine this: a children’s story in which the main characters have a conflict and they (are you ready?) work. it. out. themselves....more  The Summer of Good Intentions Francis, Wendy  I can’t remember when I have ever read a book in which the characters all work out their difficulties by talking about their problems together and try...more

What are you reading today?!

What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them,and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....That's what happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual. Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book. Click here to join the Salon.

The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It's a chance to share news and recap the past week.