Hi Friends – I hope you are all having a lovely Mother’s Day whether you are celebrating you, your moms or other family members! I think my mom and I are going to do a marathon of Jane Austen movies or something like that I’m sure.
Yesterday my husband and I went out on another social bike ride. This one was more to inform us about the local conservancy group and their work to make green spaces more available to people. That is one of the things I love about Austin, even though you are in the middle of the city with tall sleek buildings you can still find pockets of quiet and green all over the place. Now if we could only get more mass transit, cyclists and less cars.
Anyway, this morning I finished The Widows of Malabar Hill by Suajata Massey and last week I meant to tell you that I also finished Notes from a Public Typewriter. I really enjoyed both books and will try to tell you more about them soon. I’m totally behind on my reading for my HR certification class so I don’t think I’ll be getting much more ahead in my fun reading but we’ll see. I need to do some chores today as well. Isn’t that exciting.
So hope you all have a wonderful day and more book talk soon!
I totally agree with you about Austin and also the ‘less cars, more mass transit’ theory. I wish I could take the train downtown closer to the new library. It’s possible to walk there, but probably about to be too hot for that right now. Anyway, hope you and your Mom have a great day today. A Jane Austen movie marathon sounds perfect!
I hope you can continue to ride your bike once it gets hot this summer! I rode today and it was wonderful. Definitely a highlight of our camping trip so far.
Hope you and your mother had a great time with the movie marathon!
It’s great that you live in city that values its green space… it’s so important! Hope you and you mom enjoyed the movie marathon 🙂
I just heard a little bit about Austin in a New York Book Review interview with Lawrence Wright (this is the printed review, not the conversation: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/books/review-god-save-texas-lawrence-wright.html) and suddenly Texas sounded fascinating! Somehow I had the idea that you lived in a warm-weather part of the US but that’s as far as the geography had settled for me – now I know!
Hope you had fun with your movie marathon: that sounds like a good day!
I hope you had a great mother’s day — a Jane Austen marathon sounds excellent!
Kay – I wish I could take the train to the APL as well. I hate having to deal with so much traffic here but thank goodness for the green areas! I love discovering new green places.
Les in OR – I admit when it gets too hot I just can’t deal with the heat but maybe I just need to wake up early on the weekends and ride before it gets too hot. Can’t wait to read about your latest adventure!
Jenclair – We did. Actually we didn’t watch Jane Austen after all but found some other classic films to enjoy.
Joann @ Lakeside Musing – It is so important to spend time outdoors isn’t it? I find that being in nature can really help me with my mood!
Buried In Print – Oh thank you for the link. I’ll have to check that out. I love certain things about Texas (mainly that it’s very sunny year round although I don’t like our hot summers), it’s affordable and has some pretty places but the politics leaves much to be desired. Thank goodness I live in Austin which many consider a blueberry in a cherry bowl 🙂
Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness) – Thank you! We had a really nice afternoon although no Austen but we’ll save her for another time!
A Jane Austen movie marathon sounds like fun! My husband and daughter took me to the movies, which was nice. Then we came home and watched another movie! 🙂 I hope you have a great week, Iliana!