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Sunday Salon


Jul 16, 2008: SUNDAY SALON: ADMINISTRATIVE NEWS!!!
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Per a suggestion in a comment here I've been working on simplifying the Yahoo Pipes that manage the nearly 200...

Jul 13, 2008: Sunday Salon: The Woman Who Can't Forget
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Free Press © 2008, 263 pages It's no surprise that Jill Price has become the go-to girl in her family...

Jul 6, 2008: Sunday Salon: Salon on FriendFeed
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Following the example of (and per the suggestion of) Maxine of Petrona I've just set up a Sunday Salon reading...

Jun 29, 2008: Sunday Salon: Dead drunks
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Not very much by way of reading this week, but I did manage to finish and review the first installment...

Jun 8, 2008: Sunday Salon: Fred Rogers
Comments: 5 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
I finished and reviewed Lynn Sholes and Joe Moore's The 731 Legacy yesterday, and today finished Tim Madigan's I'm Proud...

May 25, 2008: Sunday Salon: Reading in Paradise
Comments: 8 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
I had time to read today, and in fact had one of the most relaxing days I've had in a...

May 9, 2008: Sunday Salon: Thoughts?
Comments: 21 | Categories: Sunday Salon
Maxine of Petrona posted some thoughtful comments the other day about the Salon--where it's going, whether it works. Her post...

Apr 27, 2008: Sunday Salon: Site changes
Comments: 5 | Categories: Sunday Salon
I just made some improvements to the Salon site. Given our ever lenghthening list of members (123 this morning; I've...

Apr 27, 2008: Sunday Salon: 1 2 3...meme!
Comments: 16 | Categories: Sunday Salon
Having just welcomed the 123rd member to the Sunday Salon (A Comfy Chair and a Book), it seems only appropriate...

Apr 13, 2008: Sunday Salon: Linwood Barclay, No Time For Goodbye
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Bantam Books © 2007, 338 pages Cynthia Bigge woke up one day when she was fourteen years old to find...

Apr 13, 2008: Sunday Salon: An online book club of a different sort
Comments: 5 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Robert Alexander's latest novel (his first was The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar) is The Romanov Bride,...

Apr 7, 2008: Sunday Salon: Some free books still available
Comments: 1 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
The good folks at Folio Literary Management have let me know that they've been able to scrounge up four more...

Apr 6, 2008: Sunday Salon: Free books and BAFAB
Comments: 1 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
I hope to get a review up later--must work now--but I wanted to remind/tell my fellow Salonists of two things:...

Mar 23, 2008: Sunday Salon: Petrona and literary generosity
Comments: 4 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Two further things I want to mention. First, if you haven't caught it, our Maxine of Petrona wrote a piece...

Mar 23, 2008: Sunday Salon: Mr. Fooster and the assassin
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
It's been a slow week for me. Strangely, I just wasn't in the mood for reading. I wound up abandoning...

Mar 22, 2008: Sunday Salon: Testing email alerts, etc.
Comments: 7 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
A Salonist mentioned that she hasn't been receiving email alerts through Yahoo Pipes. I've never subscribed by that means, so...

Feb 24, 2008: Sunday Salon: Jeff Povey, The Serial Killers Club
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Much of today was spent at Rebecca's birthday party, so no reading done, but I did manage to post a...

Feb 17, 2008: Sunday Salon: Finding happiness in India
Comments: 5 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Another 38 minutes of quality reading time, and I have finished the penultimate chapter of The Geography of Bliss, on...

Feb 17, 2008: Sunday Salon: Slough bliss and slow progress
Comments: 5 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
I really need to get some reading in. Today I am determined to do just that. So I've collected a...

Feb 10, 2008: Sunday Salon: Finding bliss
Comments: 2 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Not much reading under my belt today, though I've managed some pages here and there from my current read. I'm...

Feb 3, 2008: Sunday Salon: What I'll read if I can stay awake long enough
Comments: 3 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
I've had a rough couple of weeks reading-wise. I abandoned a couple books (which, however, is itself productive). Groucho Marx's...

Jan 27, 2008: Sunday Salon: On abandoning books
Comments: 15 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
It's been a slow reading week. I've been working through Michael Robotham's third novel, Night Ferry: policewoman Alisha Barba--not on...

Jan 21, 2008: Sunday Salon: IMPORTANT -- Feed problems
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I noticed this morning that I hadn't received many Salon posts via RSS yesterday. I've been looking into it, and...

Jan 20, 2008: Sunday Salon: More new members, Allen Shawn, and phobias
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Several new members have signed up for the Salon in the last few hours, believe it or not. I have...

Jan 15, 2008: Sunday Salon: New members
Comments: 6 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Incredibly enough, we now have 48 members in the Sunday Salon: I just added four new members to the participant...

Jan 13, 2008: Sunday Salon: Lions and Tigers and Calvin Trillin
Comments: 4 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Today by way of Salon reading I'm finishing up a light read, Peter Allison's Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True...

Jan 6, 2008: Sunday Salon: Dean Koontz and New Subscribers
Comments: 7 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Today was a big day for the Sunday Salon. We've got three new participants today, whose blogs have been added...

Dec 30, 2007: Sunday Salon: NaJuReMoNoMo
Comments: 3 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
I haven't started reading for the Salon yet and won't until this afternoon. However, I thought I'd spread word of...

Dec 23, 2007: Sunday Salon: Our increasing member list
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
We've just added our 30th member to the Sunday Salon: welcome to Laura Lindsay of Musings! I think it's great...

Dec 23, 2007: Sunday Salon: Kyle Mills, Darkness Falls
Comments: 2 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: Kyle Mills, Darkness Falls Comments: Another Sunday and, unfortunately, it's the...

Dec 16, 2007: Sunday Salon: Jerry Labriola, The Strange Death of Napoleon Bonaparte
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Since the Sunday Salon began however many weeks ago, I've managed to read...

Dec 9, 2007: Sunday Salon: Zig Zag and new members
Comments: 5 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: José Carlos Somoza, Zig Zag Pages read: 58 | total for...

Dec 2, 2007: Sunday Salon: José Carlos Somoza, Zig Zag
Comments: 2 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: José Carlos Somoza Pages read: 30 | total for day: 30...

Nov 27, 2007: Sunday Salon: The Picador Blog
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Our Maxine of Petrona has contributed a nice write-up of the Salon to The Picador Blog. Click over and take...

Nov 26, 2007: Sunday Salon: Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Comments: 5 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
This book arrived unbidden in the mail yesterday. I'd not heard of it before, but since it was so short...

Nov 25, 2007: Sunday Salon: The Seesaw Girl and Me
Comments: 14 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: Dick York, The Seesaw Girl and Me Pages read: 22 |...

Nov 24, 2007: Sunday Salon: RSS feeds again
Comments: 4 | Categories: Sunday Salon
Salonists: I was playing with the Sunday Salon RSS feeds again. The Yahoo Pipe I'd constructed to deal with our...

Nov 18, 2007: Sunday Salon: Come on Down! (2)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: Stan Bilts, Come on Down!: Behind the Big Doors at The...

Nov 18, 2007: Sunday Salon: Come on Down!
Comments: 5 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: Stan Bilts, Come on Down!: Behind the Big Doors at The...

Nov 12, 2007: Sunday Salon: Slight change in RSS feeds
Comments: 5 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
This will probably only be of interest to participants in and followers of the Sunday Salon. I went a little...

Nov 11, 2007: Sunday Salon: The Unbinding (2)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: Walter Kirn, The Unbinding Pages read: 21 | total for day:...

Nov 11, 2007: Sunday Salon: The Unbinding
Comments: 6 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: Walter Kirn, The Unbinding Pages read: 19 | total for day:...

Nov 11, 2007: Sunday Salon: Mongo - Adventures in Trash
Comments: 5 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: Ted Botha, Mongo: Adventures in Trash Pages read: 22 Time spent...

Nov 5, 2007: Sunday Salon: In the news!
Comments: 8 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Thanks to Ian Hocking, I've been made aware that our happy group was...

Nov 4, 2007: Sunday Salon: Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (3)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: Chelsea Cain, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth Pages read: 29 |...

Nov 4, 2007: Sunday Salon: Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (2)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: Chelsea Cain, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth Pages read: 19 |...

Nov 4, 2007: Sunday Salon: Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (1)
Comments: 4 | Categories: Sunday Salon
Click for information about The Sunday Salon. Currently reading: Chelsea Cain, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth Pages read: 32 Time...

Nov 2, 2007: Sunday Salon: Participant lists
Comments: 9 | Categories: Sunday Salon
JoeB of Fiction Views, a Sunday Salon participant, suggested that some Salonists might be interested in reciprocal links. So, in...

Oct 30, 2007: Sunday Salon: Badges available
Comments: 2 | Categories: Sunday Salon
I've just made up some badges for The Sunday Salon that interested participants (or interested non-participants) are welcome to add...

Oct 28, 2007: Sunday Salon: Sundays with Vlad (1)
Comments: 1 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Currently reading: Paul Bibeau, Sundays with Vlad Why I'm reading this book: The author wrote me a little while back...

Oct 28, 2007: Sunday Salon: Day 1
Comments: 2 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
The Sunday Salon is up and running today. A number of new people have joined up. Please head over to...

Oct 23, 2007: Introducing The Sunday Salon
Comments: 8 | Categories: Books & reading , Sunday Salon
Recently a bunch of us participated in a 24-hour read-a-thon, hosted by Dewy at The Hidden Side of a Leaf....


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