Sunday Salon (1:5)
Posted on September 9, 2018
by Adam Burgess
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RBR Sunday Salon
Volume 1, Issue 5

This second week of September might mean Pumpkin Spice lattes and early autumn feelings for many North Americans, but here at Roof Beam Reader it means 108-degree temperatures and another Sunday Salon!
This week, in addition to recapping my own posts and sharing what I’m currently reading, I’m sharing my favorite reads from my favorite bloggers, as well as a number of fascinating articles from across the web, including some on science, history, and politics.
I look forward to hearing about what you’ve read/written this week, or what you think about the links I’ve shared. Please feel free to comment below. Happy September!
Blog Posts I Loved
- Wild Moo Books: Wrap Up: Big Book Summer Challenge. “Back in June I enthusiastically jumped into my friend Sue’s Big Book Summer Challenge. The challenge was to read books over 400 pages long between Memorial Day and Labor Day.”
- Interesting Literature: The Pit and the Pendulum and the Short Story: “Of these lesser-known Poe tales, the one that stood out to me was ‘The Domain of Arnheim’, in which Poe seems to lay out his artistic credo in the form of a work of fiction. It’s a love letter to the imagination and a late-Romantic expression of the primacy of the human imagination, describing an imaginary voyage through a poet’s mind.”
- An Historian About Town: Creating Your Library. “While this is a lovely dream to have, it isn’t as easy as it might seem on the surface, and there is a lot to consider. For a lot of people, it is a way to establish their intellectual self in their home.”
Literary Miscellany
History & Politics
Culture & Society
Science, Tech., & Nature
Teaching & Writing
Posts from Roof Beam Reader
Currently Reading
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- So Big by Edna Ferber (for #CCSPIN)
Thank you for stopping by and taking part in another SUNDAY SALON. There was much to choose from this week, and I hope I have presented you with a decent selection. Some of these I found interesting and engaging, others troubling and bothersome. I would love to hear your thoughts on any of these or the other things you’ve read this week!
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I’m enjoying the variety of articles you include in your Sunday Salon posts. I’m flattered you included my Big Book Summer Challenge recap. 🎃
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Thank you!
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I like that outline post. I think students might respond to it. Hmmm.
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I know! I saved it for later, to give as required reading during the pre-writing phase for the research paper.
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Wish I had come across that advice on creating outlines a few years ago when I was doing a second degree “for fun”- loved the studying bu hated having to write essays
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Thanks for all the lovely links. Off to check them out.
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