pickFinished this early in the morning right before it was set to expire!
This was such a journey. I went into this fairly blind and I think that was a good thing. It was real and raw and doesn‘t hide the ups and downs of a seventy-year marriage.
pickThis was engrossing when Olson focused on Mount St. Helens to include the events leading up to its eruption, the actual eruption, and the damage and aftermath. I learned details I had never known. The book shows how the scientific community and government did poorly in preparing for a worst case scenario and informing and protecting the public.
pickTwo long train journeys this weekend allowed me to finish this story of Laura, an American 19yr old who travels to London in 1939 to stay with her aunt. Meeting a communist girl she befriends on the ship wakens a curiosity in the Soviets. As she mingles in high society, she finds herself involved in the world of espionage. In an afterword the author refers to Melinda marling, wife of Donald maclean as inspiration. An interesting book, well told.
pickAny book where someone stays in a remote cabin in the woods is enough for me. Throw in the fact that she is a writer of detective stories, finds a body in her lake (sans head) and Bigfoot theories abound and I am there! Seriously good mystery!
pickOne of the better cozies I‘ve read this year. A mom and daughter escape their messy life to a rural cabin in Washington state. Mom needs to write her next book and daughter needs to heal from the trauma of being abandoned by her Dad. Unfortunately there is murder. And Bigfoot. #ThematicCozies
pickYou can see Richard Lasher‘s car & the dirt bike he was able to flee the approaching ash cloud on.
I was alive when St Helen‘s happened but was too young & too far away from WA to remember. I wish the book would have gone right to covering the event & not the years before background & its players.
I do remember the elderly man that refused to heed warnings & condemned 16 cats to eruption death. You also get perished dogs & horses. Humans too. 💧
Just wanted to share my new personalized number plates with people who will appreciate them. I‘m trying to ignore the fact that the holes in the bumper were already crooked 😁
Came home after a 6 night cruise to the beautiful Whitsundays and plonked down in front of the heater with the book I didn‘t get to finish on the cruise 🚢
