Happy Sunday! Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at ReaderBuzz. Check out her post and the links to see what other bloggers have been up to in the last week.

How’s the weather?

I wore a parka to my Black Lives Matter vigil last week. This Saturday, the weather was beautiful, and I was almost too warm in a crisp cotton blouse. We’ll have similar weather for Easter which will be good for church services and egg hunts. It looks like April will begin with showers and cooler weather, but we don’t expect to see the temperature go below freezing again.

What are you reading?

I finished listening to Ashton Hall by Lauren Belfer. I chose this book because I liked the reader of the audiobook Romantic Comedy. Ashton Hall is another book that she read. This book has one of my favorite plots — American woman goes to England and gets caught up in a historical mystery. Most recently, that was the premise of The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner.

The protagonist of Ashton Hall, Hannah Larson, is given to long explanations. That made me impatient when it was history that I knew and annoyed when it was about facts of modern life that I know and felt that Hannah was naive to be oblivious to. On the other hand, the long-windedness was really helpful for the parts of history that I never previously encountered and for the facts of modern life around issues that I’m oblivious to.

Beach Read by Emily Henry is my current e-book. I heard it was funny and it is. Now that I’m reading more like a writer, I noticed that the dialogue is written as banter. The narrative voice is not particularly humorous. I’m newly aware that I like a humorous narrative voice similar to what I experienced in Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

My current print book is The Nazi Spy Ring in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, but I don’t imagine that’s going to be of much interest to anyone. I’m reading it as research for the novel that I’m writing.

What are you watching?

I finished watching Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story and enjoyed it. Watch for a review as my British Isles Friday post this week.

What are you doing?

Speaking of British Isles Friday, my post this week was all about Longleat House, said to be the first English stately home opened to the public — 75 years ago in April.

How are you this fine Sunday?