This first line was too long to finger type. :D. The book is a doctoral thesis from the mid-70s.
#firstlinefridays
#late
#insomniapost
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.
Jumping into the #haikuaday #haikuhive for July.
I was really moved by an article from Alta Journal I got in my email today by the author of the tagged book. It brought a lot of things together for me. It's a weird combination of banal and cryptic in haiku form, but I hope to blog about it once it percolates a little more.
Here‘s how I‘m doing on the #naturalitsy buddy read. I‘ve read the January, February and March books. Now to catch up, I‘ll have to read the April, May, June books and maybe the July book if I have time. I don‘t know how long it‘ll take me to read them because it takes me awhile to read nonfiction. I hope I can eventually catch up with everyone else who is participating. I‘d like to be able to participate in the discussions.
Decided to stop by the Channel Islands Visitor Center before our walk. So, now I have a new book. 😬
1. Tagged book was a giveaway 😄
2. I keep a reading journal with reviews/blurbs, sometimes post reviews on Litsy, and fill out the review questionnaires on StoryGraph.
#wondrouswednesday
April #wrapup
Another great reading month in the books! Some great picture books this month.
pick#Read2025 #MonthlyNonFiction2025
I‘m behind on reviews & discussion but I finished this for April‘s #Naturalitsy #BuddyRead I borrowed an ebook copy from the library & it‘s a quick & interesting book of essays about the Owens Valley & Mohave Desert in California. Written in 1903, it‘s wonderful nature writing & while my version may have suffered for lack of photos, the writing was descriptive enough to make me see it in my mind. While reading ⬇️
This week‘s joys are all from Malice Domestic 37.
1. Gigi Pandian was the toastmaster. She remembered me from last year, and we had a nice chat.
2. She‘s here being interviewed by next year‘s toastmaster, Ellen Byron. I got a free signed copy of the tagged book at the closing tea.
3. I reconnected with the team behind the website cozymystery.com who I met last year.
4. I registered for Malice Domestic 38. ⬇️
#5joysfriday
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