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#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1) Hadn‘t seen Not My Cat in a while so was happy to find him sleeping on the porch yesterday
2) nice hike with the husband
3) made a brownie recipe @TheBookHippie shared last week
4) my son shuns all the senior stuff so I‘m happy to live vicariously through the kids who park in my neighborhood
5) baby butterfly growing on my porch wall 🦋

#BookerLonglist #4

Nothing much happens is this meandering novel about a women revisiting the Greek village she went to nine years ago to grieve her mother‘s death. Now she has lost her father. She notices the changes in the village and reacquaints with some of the people she met the first time.
It was nice to spend some time with the narrator yet I am not sure what the books is about or why it is nominated for the Booker Prize. A light pick

Painting continues; I‘m priming built in shelves and cupboards, window trim, chair rail etc ….. and book #4. This book is because some internet troll during Canada‘s election told me I‘m a moron and I need to wake up and read MC‘s book. So I am and little does the troll know, Mark Carney had me with the fact he‘d written a book which is a lot more than I can say about Pee Pee

“Endless” #4

#4

I didn‘t really follow either of the trials that has awarded E. Jean in upwards now of $100 million (there is 9% compounded daily for lack of payment, so all those appeals & delays are adding up). I‘m not familiar with her writing style. Is it the best book I‘ve ever read? No. Do I support women? Yes. Do I support a woman that wants to donate her money that she was awarded to causes like women‘s reproductive rights, voting, healthcare? Yes

Needed this break before work this morning. So many ICE Gestapo raids here yesterday. ICE were even reported outside our school; many children did not show up yesterday. Most of the raids were at the farms. This is about destroying the country. Disrupting the food supply is exactly what an invading power would do.

This is a bit like the third Star Wars movie (#6 in the new canon): slightly disappointing for the diehard fan in me; it feeling a tad formulaic. There is however enough to motivate me to continue to have the stories wash over me- #4 is in the cue.

#Read2925

I think this is my final review of May, completed last week for #FictionalTraveler #SpanishSpeaking & the 6th of my #Roll100 picks for May (#4: Any BOTM). I‘ve put off reviewing it because I‘m still not sure how I feel about it. It‘s a quiet book about grief, depression & finding your life. Ruth leaves her job in NYC for a lake town in Guatemala, a place she felt most real in when she was there years before. It sort of meanders, ⬇️

#Read2025 #SeriesLove2025

I finished this one, #4 in the series a couple of Sundays ago for #EBBR & I have got to start reviewing them right when I finish or at least take notes because of course I‘ve already forgotten the 2 cases (I think) that I didn‘t get right. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ Even reading the list of cases, I don‘t remember at all. No matter, they still make for a great Sunday night #HyggeHour read.