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| Don and Jamie and a woodpecker tree in the fairy forest near our home |
Weather: Lovely! Sunny but not hot. We've spent quite a bit of time outside just puttering. I stepped outside Saturday morning as the coffee was brewing and caught ten bird songs on the Merlin Bird App:
Spotted Towhee; House Sparrow; Song Sparrow; American Robin; Cedar Waxwing; European Starling; Violet-green Swallow; Bewick's Wren; House Finch; Dark-eyed Junco. What a cacophony!
The project: Lately I've had a bee in my bonnet to add all the past book club selections we've read to my Goodreads account. This is no easy task since one of my clubs (RHS Gals) has met for over twenty years and no one kept track of all the books we read each year. The other club (SOTH Ladies) has met continually since mid-1994, 31 years, but we have kept track of our past books, making my job easier but still daunting. (See that list here). I started using Goodreads in 2010, so that is over 180 books to add, figuring out dates, and making some small review or comment about the book. on a funny but related note, I am the #7 top reviewer in the USA this week, #10 in the world. If they looked at the quality of those reviews, they wouldn't want to reward me with this determination. Ha!
My eldest is 37: Yesterday was my daughter's 37th birthday and today we celebrated it together --Sunday Brunch and board games. How can she be so old? It just seems like yesterday when she was born. Happy Birthday, darling!
Books:
- Finished this week:
- Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang. A YA graphic novel by a favorite illustrator. My rating: 4 stars.
- Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout. The third book in the Amgash series. I love the way Strout wrote this book, so conversational! Oddly I've read the 1st, 4th, 5th books in the series, and now the 3rd. Guess I'd better look around for the 2nd book, Anything Is Possible. It is odd reading books out of sequence, but I liked revisiting characters I've met before or later or something. My rating: 4.5 stars.
- Currently reading:
- Be Ready When the Luck Happens: a Memoir by Ina Garten. I am enjoying this alot. I even found her cookbook in my cupboard and made one of the entrees. It was delicious! 67% complete.
- Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin. My next 12-pages-a-day classics. 32% complete.
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