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At some point Libro.FM had a sale and I got this audiobook.

The author lives in the suburban Seattle area, and this is a series of essays about the wildlife she finds in her own area. Birds, bugs, fungi, plants, she talks about a little of everything.

If you read a lot of nature writing some of this will likely be familiar to you, but even so I found it engaging.

New to me- slime molds. I‘ve never thought very much about them. Cool!

Monday finds me on #Seattle ‘s UW campus, where each of Barrett Bloom's steps feels borrowed from the day before. We get glimpses of Mount Rainier and references to Mercer Island and Bellevue—PNW has my heart. 🌲
#whereareyoumonday #librarybooks #bibliophile #romance
#romcom #uncommon #timetravel #fiction

*Not the tagged book* It was fascinating to delve into Eddie Vedder‘s music career. He discussed Nirvana, the tragic incident that occurred at their concert in Denmark, and his solo album and soundtrack for the movie Into the Wild. I particularly enjoyed the acoustic performances interspersed throughout the audiobook.

Full review abookandadog.com/blog/i-am-mine-eddie-vedder

While The City Slept was just a random book peaking out at my local library. I recommend this book for the true crime people, it was very well handled. Overall, another great month.

This one was delightful. The writing was smart and funny, and it‘s definitely a unique book. I read it in three days because I couldn‘t put it down. Highly recommended!

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#COVER STORIES
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: UMBRELLA

Such a good book. I read this in 2010.

When did YOU read it?

FULL REVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/m89byma2

#ThreeListThursday

Not too many for me. I didn‘t click the Phillip Roth book. I read a few waaaaay back in the day but have no memory if it was one I‘d read. I have read all the Atwood listed but none of the Morrison which I need to rectify. I was shocked to see the tagged book on this list. A book I liked but didn‘t love. I‘m curious why it‘s on an AP list.

Faves:

All the Light We Cannot See
The Color Purple
East of Eden

@dabbe

Historical fiction fans will love this one.

Thanks, @ChaoticMissAdventures

“20 Day Cover Challenge - As we start a new year and think about what we want in a book.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.” 16/20.

#20covers

Two 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.