With this, the fifth post of my new blog, I am rejoining The Sunday Salon, a book blogging meme I’ve been in and out of over my 20 years of blogging.

The Sunday Salon was set up in 2007 by Debra Hamel. It “began life as a means of giving myself and a few friends an excuse to read and blog every Sunday, ” she says, and then was opened up to the public, and how I became a member shortly after that. Eventually it grew so large that she had to limit its members and she moved it to Yahoo Pipes for a short time.

In 2019, Hamel passed the baton to another Deb,  a book blogger and retired school librarian from Texas, Deb Nance. In 2020, during the pandemic, Nance began listing three good things daily, a practice that now has spilled over into her Sunday Salon post each weekend. And it also cascaded on to inspire me to start my own meme, 3 Good Things Thursday, on previous blog and now on this blog too. So now, full circle.

In future Sunday Salon posts, I will write more on what I’ve read, what I’m reading, and what I plan to read. I might not always use a Sunday Salon button. I might only mention in a single line at the bottom of the post with a link to Deb’s blog. For today, I’ll just give a quick update on my planned first book of the year (for the second year in a row), Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor. Not surprisingly, like me, still unfinished.