I found Shari Franke‘s account of her life and experiences with Ruby Franke —her mother, family vlogger, influencer, and convicted child abuser — to be compelling. I will occasionally watch a video with a cute baby in it; since reading Franke‘s book, I try not to do that anymore. Ruby blamed much of what she did on a woman she worked closely with, Jodi Hildebrandt, but it‘s clear that she was always abusive — Jodi just helped make it worse.

I had watched some of the tv series with my husband but never read the book. It‘s not what I was expecting, but I‘m really enjoying it. I‘m already more than half way through. #audiowalk #ClassicLSFBC

I still like Firestarter. What‘s weird though is that I always forget how it ends. It does hit a bit differently with what‘s going on with the government now. Given how awful Rainbird was, I feel that his fate was a little glossed over. #audiowalk #LosersClub

I only have a couple of hours left, and, even though I‘ve read this book multiple times, I‘m nervous for Andy and Charlie. #audiowalk #LosersClub

I got to walk outside today because it was actually coolish. Firestarter is scary to me because it‘s really people that are the monsters; nothing supernatural really. Just people. As Dean Winchester succinctly said, “Demons, I get. People are crazy.” #audiowalk #LosersClub

I hate John Rainbird. These are all feelings I‘ve had before; I just forgot about them. #audiowalk #LosersClub

No pictures or map from my #audiowalk. It was in the gym and boring. I had forgotten how much I hate the Shop in Firestarter. Government agencies with bad intentions also hit a bit different now. New little baby that my daughter found and brought home when he barely had opened his eyes yet. His name is Moxy, and he‘s doing well now. We weren‘t sure at first if he‘d be okay. #LosersClub

It‘s been a long time since I read this; my copy has the original white cover with fire partially covering a little girl‘s face. As with most King books for #LosersClub, if I‘ve read it in print before, I‘m using the audio for this reread. So far I‘m liking the narrator. #audiowalk

I didn‘t see much point to Natalie in Killers of a Certain Age, and I still don‘t see much point to her. It‘s as if Raybourn decided 4 would be better than 3, but she didn‘t know what to do with the 4th person. I still liked this book though. #audiowalk

Billie is being a little bit ridiculous. Her boyfriend is also a former assassin, but she wants to protect him like he‘s a delicate little flower. Long and quite warm #audiowalk today.

I loved Killers of a Certain Age, so I‘m happy to be listening to its sequel as my new #audiowalk book. So far, I‘m enjoying it. Today‘s walk was partly indoors and partly outdoors — the indoors is the big red clump on the map.

This was a fun book. Like its predecessor, it has Annie dealing with and trying to solve events that happened in her great aunt‘s early life. There was a lovely breeze today, making my walk lovely. You can‘t see it well, but the 2nd row left is some Pride chalk art in the park. #audiowalk

Low end of pick scale. I wanted to like this more than I did, but I could never get invested in the lives of any of the characters. Cassie is whiny and mopey; Zoe and Cherry are manipulative and care only about themselves. Also, I know Cassie is fat — I do not need to be reminded of it a million times. Since I finished this less than halfway into my #audiowalk, I switched my nighttime book, How to Seal Your Own Fate, to my walking book.

Zoe is quite manipulative, and it appears that her daughter, Cherry, inherited that trait. Zoe finally stepped up to the plate for her daughter, so that was good. I‘ve got a little over an hour left, so I should finish tomorrow. #audiowalk

Rainy day reading.

Every day, I get more enraged by something Zoe‘s done. Today, instead, I was annoyed with Cassie, Russell (Zoe‘s husband), and the band‘s managers as well. Lots of annoyance to go around. Usually, the gps doesn‘t track well inside, but it did today. My time for 3 miles was pretty much the same as outdoors. The map is a big, red, blob because I was on a track. #audiowalk

More Zoe anger. She has pretty much everything; she‘s beautiful and popular — yet she begrudges her sister, Cassie, the one thing Cassie has: her musical talent. Ugh. 😣 I didn‘t think I‘d get to walk outside because it‘s been raining most of the day, but I managed it. #audiowalk

I‘m so mad at Zoe! Turns out she understood something her daughter had been complaining about for years and never helped her — just let her go through 14 years of it. Starting to get hot enough outside that I may have to move my walks indoors soon. 😞 #audiowalk

I really want to find out what Cassie did that‘s so horrible that she believes she must deny herself music for the rest of her life in order to atone. I went for a shorter walk today because I planned on swimming afterwards, but as I was headed back to the car, I heard thunder, so no pool. 😞. #audiowalk

For a change of pace, I chose Jennifer Weiner‘s latest as my new #audiowalk book. I had a little trouble getting into it at first, but now I‘m interested. The lovely breeze outside this evening made me choose an outside walk as opposed to the gym one that I‘d originally planned.

I really enjoyed this book. It was funny and touching at the same time. The tone is completely different from The Doomsday Book. I‘m not even sure our heroes are actually heroes — maybe they are just being used by the space-time continuum.

It‘s been a long day for me, but my #audiowalk was actually nice even though it was in the middle of the day. The breeze felt so good.

I‘ve still got 6 hours left in this book, and I‘m still enjoying it. Walked later in the evening because it‘s beginning to get a little too hot for the middle of the day. #audiowalk

I didn‘t feel like walking, but we went for a drive and my husband convinced me to just try a 5 minute walk. It felt good, so I walked two miles. #audiowalk

I can‘t make up my mind about Tossie. Sometimes she seems sweet, if a bit of a bimbo, and other times she‘s mean and a bit calculating. It was in the 80s today, but mostly a tad cloudy, so my walk wasn‘t too bad. That cat was giving me the stink eye when I passed it. #audiowalk

I‘m still enjoying this book. Temperatures are up from yesterday, but still nice. #audiowalk. I thought the Christmas bear would‘ve been taken down from the tree, but he‘s still there.

It‘s back to To Say Nothing of the Dog for my #audiowalk. It‘s much funnier than The Doomsday Book, and I have read Three Men in a Boat, which gets mentioned a lot, so that‘s an extra layer of understanding. Temperatures were cooler today because of all the rain we‘ve had, so there was a nice breeze on my walk. Mothers‘ Day flowers from my daughter.

Short #audiowalk today because of the potential for rain, so I didn‘t get much listening in.

Low end of the pick scale. I‘d have liked it better if I‘d known from the beginning that it‘s really a series of interconnected perspectives of characters that will never meet, but I kept wondering when all the threads would connect. Still, it‘s a ridiculous but funny premise that Scalzi uses to also be thoughtful. Wil Wheaton, as always, is a great narrator. Continued with The Dead Zone on my #audiowalk

I‘m switching between listening to this for #LosersClub and To Say Nothing of the Dog for my #audiowalk. I‘ve read The Dead Zone multiple times but think it might hit differently right now. Nice breeze. For awhile it looked like it might rain but didn‘t since I was prepared with my rain jacket. 😄

This book is so chaotic! The Vulcan statue with two of my favorite replicas of it. The striped one is in Vulcan Park, while other is in the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. #audiowalk

I am laughing more with this book than I did with The Doomsday Book, and I love the references to Three Men in a Boat. My daughter has finals, so we are in Birmingham. It‘s nowhere near as flat as where I live, so some places are more difficult to walk. #audiowalk

There are many things I like about this book including the questions about human nature, religion, and monstrosity that it addresses. At first I was annoyed by the fact that Ruth bases her whole idea of a wonderful romance on Twilight, but her world has been severely limited and it was a miracle she found that. The ending was derivative, but it fits the characters. #audiowalk. I started To Say Nothing of the Dog as my next walking book.

This is the lower end of the pick scale for me because I don‘t think it needed to be this long. King could have conveyed everything — the tediousness, the hardships, and the slow descent into madness for some of characters of the long walk — in a novella. I‘m also not sure how I feel about the ending.

I only have three hours left, and I‘m still not positive who is responsible for some deaths yet. It‘s starting to get warmer again, but I‘m still okay in the low 80s with a breeze. #audiowalk

Well that‘s a proposal to melt a woman‘s heart: “You were always a good girl growing up and didn‘t become a slut. Marry me.” I‘d accept that in a heartbeat. 🙄. I can‘t stand most of the people in this town. Ruth and Everett keep making some pretty questionable choices. It started raining while I was walking; luckily, I‘d brought my rain jacket. #audiowalk

I recently learned that Alabama has a lot of waterfalls and mentioned it to my husband because I love waterfalls. Here‘s my birthday books with a candle from my daughter. Now I can plan some visits! 😊

I really liked This Book Will Bury Me, so I thought I‘d try another Winstead book. This one was appealing to me for more than just the title (which is still a good one). I like the setting— south Louisiana — too. I used to live in Central LA, and I went to LSU. So far, I‘m liking this book a lot, although I dislike a lot of the power figures in the town. #audiowalk

This is the lower end of the pick scale for me. I really wanted for all the Queens to be clearly depicted, but only Christie and Sayers have pretty distinct personalities. Marsh and Allingham were only distinguishable from each other by Marsh‘s New Zealand accent and their respective clothing styles. The book was also a bit slow paced in the first half but picked up later. #audiowalk

I‘ve only read a couple of Dorothy Sayers‘ books and don‘t know much about her, so it‘s interesting listening to a book with her as the main character, with Agatha Christie, Baroness Emma Orczy (The Scarlet Pimpernel), Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham as sidekicks. I‘ve read at least one book by all of them except Allingham. Beautiful day for a #audiowalk.

I really liked the way Cooper mixes the political and personal in this book. As a white woman, she made me rethink some encounters I had in my 20s; that was interesting. I loved her section about theology for grown women. Cooper also does an excellent job narrating the audiobook; I may go back and read it in print. #SheSaid #audiowalk

We listened to John Scalzi on our trip to the beach. I switched to The Queens of Crime for my #audiowalk, and then I sat, relaxed, and read The Long Walk. This is my favorite type of weather. ❤️

I‘m finally caught up on this for #SheSaid. I particularly liked the section on theology for grown women. The temperatures were great today, with a wonderful breeze. I‘m going to hate it when it starts getting hot and muggy again. #audiowalk

Temperatures are back up, but the breeze made my #audiowalk a lovely one. I like that Brittney Cooper is the narrator for her own book; she does a great job. #SheSaid

I liked this book much better than In My Dreams I Hold a Knife. Even though I had a feeling about the villain, I was still kept guessing. Jane‘s decision at the very end really surprised me, but it made sense. Since I finished this early in my #audiowalk, I continued with Eloquent Rage, which I‘ve been listening to for #SheSaid.

Some of Jane‘s decisions here are really questionable, and she knows it since she doesn‘t tell anyone until the thing is done or it‘s too late to change course. Beautiful day. #audiowalk

After a few days of rain, thunderstorms, and flooding, we finally had a beautiful day today. Sun, a nice breeze — if a little cold. I was comfortable in long pants. I haven‘t decided if I like the characters in this book yet, but I can empathize with them, so that‘s enough. #audiowalk

My husband was with me today, so we listened to this. I love that Wil Wheaton narrates Scalzi‘s books; he‘s so good! The ridiculous premise here is that the moon has suddenly turned into cheese; shenanigans and conspiracy theories ensue. #audiowalk

Ok, I read In My Dreams I Hold a Knife because I liked the title. I didn‘t love it, but I didn‘t hate it either, so, again, because I like the title to her new book, I‘ve decided to listen to it for my #audiowalk. I hope I like it better than her first one.

There was two much of the Ellie & James love story in the book, and, frankly, I just didn‘t care about it. Neither character is that interesting. There could have been a fun mystery under all that, but it was missing. I wouldn‘t have finished it if it had been by most other authors.