Sunday Salon: Book Purge Day Edition

Time: The first weekend of August, 2013–starting the draft of this post on Saturday evening, intending to finish and publish on Sunday morning


Place: My side of the bed, with the iPad

Eating and drinking: I have my bedside (nearly always at my side, wherever, to be honest) glass of water, and that's it till breakfast, which will probably be Kashi cereal with fruit and a biscuit. Unless that's not what I feel like eating by the time I get down to the kitchen...

Reading: Beth Kephart generously sent me an advance copy of Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, which officially releases this Tuesday. I'm about halfway through it, and it's the next best thing to sitting in on one of her Creative Nonfiction classes at Penn. I'll have more to say about it when I'm done, but I'll say this now: if you ever consider writing your own memoir, read this before you do. And I'm about to resume reviewing for Shelf Awareness; I'm expecting my October “review consideration” package from them any day now, as well as the September selection for She Reads.

Watching: It's pretty much summer-doldrums time for TV, so last night we started watching the first season of “new” Doctor Who on Netflix. We came to this show with the Eleventh Doctor's first season and then backtracked through the entire Tenth series, and we've been watching the monthly Doctors Revisited specials that BBC is running during the show's 50th-anniversary year to get better acquainted with “classic" Who. Now it's time for us to be completists and get to know the Ninth Doctor.

Listening: I just switched to the two-credits-per-month plan with Audible, and one of the first books I bought with it was Curtis Sittenfeld's latest, Sisterland, on the recommendation of Candace from Beth Fish Reads. It's very absorbing.

Blogging: I missed my first day of daily "Just One Paragraph” posting yesterday, and I'm tweaking the premise slightly anyway; the “paragraph” post goes up on days when I don't have a book discussion or other content scheduled. I'm trying to focus on the daily posting and almost-daily writing. I made it for almost two weeks, and I'm jumping right back in!

Enjoying: The wait is over. The house next door is ours.

Anticipating: Three weeks from today, I'll be waking up in the bedroom on the other side of this wall. And three weeks after that–more or less–I'll be unpacking my books into the three new bookcases we just ordered to line one entire wall of the dining room.

Pondering/Planning: We have movers coming to cart the big bulky stuff over to the new place, but we're planning to bring a lot of the smaller stuff over ourselves, bit by bit and day by day. There are lots of logistics to consider regarding what to take and when, so we minimize the number of days we're effectively living in two places.

Promoting: Are you a book lover within a reasonable driving distance of Simi Valley, California? Do you have some time on your hands today? Come by my house and help yourself to some of the books I'm not moving! Details are here. Message me on Facebook or email me at 3.rsblog AT Gmail dot com for the address and directions!

So, what's up with you this weekend?

 

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