The Sunday Salon ~ “And we frolicked about in our summer skin.”

July 27, 2008 by Bart · 7 Comments
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Squeaky swings and tall grass
The longest shadows ever cast
The water’s warm and children swim
And we frolicked about in our summer skin
© Death Cab for Cutie

Welcome Sunday Saloners!

Well as regular visitors (who aren’t reading this in a RRS feed!) might have noticed I’ve changed my site’s skin to something a little brighter and more in keeping with the summer we’re finally seem to be getting, here in the UK.

So, reading this week as gone okay, managed to finish off, The End Of Mr. Y and made good headway into Sky Burial, unfortunately, had to go into work today the help out in some major shifting round of departments on my floor, so at the moment I’ve not managed to get any reading done at all today :(

Saying that I could quite easily finish off, Sky Burial, or even Yosihiro Tatsumi’s Good-bye, which I’ve been dipping in and out of for a week or two now. I’d also like to get a draft of a review done for The End Of Mr. Y, so might not get the chance to attack both of them.

Challenges and Meme’s update:

Weekly Geek - Review Interviews.

Answered your questions and posted reviews for.

A to Z Challenge

30 / 52 Books Read. 58% done!
And, Xinran, will do very nicely for one of my authors on this one!

Book Blowout

7 / 9 Books Read. 78% done!
Technically I could claim 100% done as I originally said 7-9 books, but as I have another 2 books very close to finishing, I’m going to stick with 9.

Orbis Terrarum

4 / 9 Books Read. 44% Done
Again, very close to adding one more to this one.

Mythopoeic Awards Challenge

1 / 7 Books Read. 14% done!
Looks like this is going to be the hardest challenge to complete!

Comments

7 Responses to “The Sunday Salon ~ “And we frolicked about in our summer skin.””
  1. I like the new design. Much easier to read every thing.

    unfinishedperson’s last blog post: The Sunday Salon: Drinking tea again, stealing snacks and pouring libations for the blogging gods

  2. katrina says:

    Thank god for the sunshine, i thought this summer was gonna be a blowout. too bad you had to work on probably the hottest day so far x

    katrina’s last blog post: Sunday Salon and My Thoughts on Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

  3. Hey Bart - just popped over from my feed reader to check out your face lift - it looks great! Good to see you’re setting a stretching target for the blowout - we still have a few days to go - I’m going to try and squeeze at least one more in :)

  4. ooh - is that a plugin you have that will let me edit my comment within 5 minutes??

  5. Like the new skin. It seems everyone’s changing (well, not everyone, that’s hyperbole, but a lot of bloggers) myself included. I like this fresh new look.;-)

    The Kool-Aid Mom’s last blog post: TSS - Mummies, Mishka, and More!

  6. Thanks - I’ll check it out!

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