Sunday Salon: November 17, 2019

Deb Nance at Readerbuzz has taken over running The Sunday Salon.

My life in books over the past week: 

• The Toll by Neal Shusterman
• Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
• Kate, Who Tamed the Wind by Lou Garton Scanlon

• X O, Ox: a Love Story by Adam Rex
• The Z was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg
• Your Alien by Tammi Sauer

Challenge progress:

• Diversity Reading Challenge--I have read 61 books.
• Literary Escapes--I have read books set in 37 states so far, adding xx in the past week. I have read in 56 countries so far, adding Brazil and a non-disclosed Sub-Saharan African country in the past week.
• Motif Reading Challenge--The November motif is "Seasons, weather, and elements" 
• Non-fiction--I have read 26 books so far.

Completed challenges:

• My Own Books--I read 21 books off my shelves from March 15 to May 15, 2019.
• Big Book Challenge--I read 8 books over 400 pages during the summer.
• YA Award Winners--I have read all 11 winners
• A to Z Reading--I have read books with titles for al l26 letters

My life outside books:

I managed to watch 3 seasons of the The Good Karma Hospital on AcornTV in the past couple of weeks. It's less watching than it sounds like since there were only 6 episodes per season. It was a good show, not great, but good. It did remind me how much I love the colors of India and that I would be perfectly happy to wear a salwar kameez every day.