Sunday, May 11, 2025

A busy week and a borrowed book

Most of my friends here are readers.  I loaned a book to one who doesn't read a lot, and he returned it in the box beside my door recently.  He'd had the book for weeks.  Actually, months, I think.  You want to know which book.  This one:

We'll Prescribe You a Cat ~ by Syou Ishida, translated by E. Madison Shimoda, 2024, literary fiction, 304 pages
I told you all about it HERE, so I won't repeat myself.  Click that link to read all about the book.  My non-reader neighbor left me a note, saying, "B — Thanks so much for sharing this sweet book!  It brought lots of sweet memories + smiles."  Then he drew a cat's face, with ears and whiskers.
Here's what I posted this week:
  1. On Tuesday, I wrote about a neighbor who took me out to lunch for my birthday.  She wrapped up four big boxes of tissue as my gift because of my "post nasal drip."  When I told her that I have a runny nose because of my spring allergies, she doubled down and insisted that I have post nasal drip.  I use tissue to wipe my runny nose, but I do NOT cough it out of my mouth.  Sorry, if that's too much information, but her insistence made me blog about the difference between having a runny nose and having post-nasal drip, HERE.
  2. On Wednesdays, I often write about words and phrases, so "glitch in the matrix" was the subject that day, HERE.
  3. On Thursday, I attended the first of eight classes on fall prevention, and I smiled when the instructor mentioned "endurance, strength, balance, and flexibility."  That was the focus in the classes I led here several years ago, using free booklets from Go4Life.  That class was my focus on Thursday, HERE.
  4. Friday's subject was a book on National Parks in North America, HERE.
  5. On Saturday, I wrote about a children's picture book someone (probably visiting an elderly relative here at my facility for senior living) had left in our library, HERE.
Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz.

2 comments:

Mae Travels said...

Good to hear that you found a book to interest your neighbor!

Deb Nance at Readerbuzz said...

It's wonderful when someone returns a borrowed book and expresses their appreciation for sharing it with them.

I know nothing about health, but I know my dad has a lot of trouble with a drippy nose, and his eye doctor told him it's because his nose and eyes are too dry and trying to compensate.