pickTwo thoughts: 1) very realpolitik that the two main places I've lived in my life has been shaped - and thus shaped me - my the glacial cover of the last glacial maximum.
2) it's kind of mind boggling how quickly Seattle has changed. All cities are engineered - the one I grew up in was half dug out of swamp land. But in Sweden that took hundreds of years (my hometown is over 800), Seattle is around 150, with a fire resetting to it 115 years ago.
"The nearest city of any size, Portland, with around twenty-five hundred people, was eight days by schooner."
That seems pretty slow for a ship? For reference, it takes three hours by car, or three hours by train (because especially west coast American rail is awful) now.
Christmas Eve morning book! With bonus featured embossing stamp, a birthday gift from @donut_jefa.
(and no worries, I'm not doxing myself, my name is common enough that there are hundreds if not thousands of people with my exact name combo)
I know that Shute was an Englishman who spent parts of his life in Australia, but I wonder if he spent time in the Pacific Northwest. He writes so fondly of it in the start of this novel, and it is also featured in On the Beach.
#PNW #Australia #Modernism
pick5⭐️ I was really surprised that I liked this book. While I wasn‘t really surprised at how well the story was written, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it and how much it drew me in. I also liked how the author made the cancer storyline very believable. I didn‘t know I had breast cancer until there was a shooting pain in my breast; breast cancer doesn‘t always make itself known with the usual signs. ⤵️
pick#PNW debut author Donna Barba Higuera writes about moving to a new community and overcoming homesickness and fear of fitting in at school. I love the Spanglish, but still need more pronounciation and translation support before reading this out loud. Spanish is my 3rd language, I need more practice.
🎧 1:40:25/8:58:02 (16%)
If I could describe this title... at the moment... in five words, they would be: twisted religious beliefs, blood atonement.
#audiobook #currentlylistening #localauthor #pnw #truecrime
so-soIn 1970, reporter Paul Linnman was sent to the Oregon Coast to cover a unique method of removing a dead whale: dynamite. Unsurprisingly, the story came to define his life and he eventually decided to write a book around the events with some other bits thrown in. The whale parts were fun, but overall this wasn‘t terribly engaging and took me a while to get through. If you haven‘t seen the video, though, definitely look for it!
Your land has a story, and it‘s worth listening
pickNominated for #WCCPBA
I just read this 19 times #outloud to my K-5 students. It encapsulates great and less remembered moments in the Civil Rights movement before 1968. I took a moment with some students to explain that TV was new like TikTok today. People were watching for the 1st time and they were outraged. I was fascinated that out of about 340 students, only one drew a comparison to Colin Kaepernick. I live in a social justice desert.
