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| Sorority Sisters: Anne Marie, Me, Mary Ann, Chris, Sandy |
Weather: Lovely summer weather with tinges of odors of forest fire smoke every once in a while.š
Sisterhood: I met with four of my sorority sisters for a good chat and dinner early last week at Anne Marie's home. It was amazing how we could all pick up where we left off forty-five years ago. Sisters forever.
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| Ian and his Auntie wearing silly rally "hats" trying to urge team onto victory. (It didn't work.) |
First Mariners baseball game: Ian went to his major league baseball game in Seattle last Friday to be part of the crowd celebrating the 50th season of the Mariners team. He almost caught a flyball, ate pizza, bought a baseball from the club store, and got to watch a home run derby after the game was over which involved eight retired Mariners, including Ichiro! After riding the link train back to the park-n-ride and driving home we didn't get back until 1 AM. Pretty late for all of us but especially for an eight-year-old boy.
Reading (since my last update):
- Completed:
- Currently reading:
- Blogging:
- TTT: Inspiring Books with Uninspiring Covers
- Review: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
- Six-Degrees: LAND
- Classics Club Spin #45, announcement is Sunday (today)
- TTT: Books I was reading on this day for the past ten years
- Review: Land by Maggie O'Farrell
- Reviews: The Warmth of Other Suns and Last Summer on State Street
Cybils Book Award closes: Sadly I read that the Cybils (Children's and Young Adult Book Lovers' Literary Awards) Board decided that it was time to cease to exist. I was a Cybils judge for several years --mostly reading MG and YA nonfiction, and I loved it and took a lot of pride in doing it. The board cited among two reasons that it was time to fold. First that is difficult to find dedicated judges and secondly they had trouble getting preview copies from publishers. I understand the first reason. There were so many categories when one factors in all the category classifications from pre-readers up to high school. I bet it was tough to fill all the judging slots. The second reason, one would think that publishers would want people to read and review their books but I bet it was a huge job to ask them to send preview copies to each of the judges for their books. Sigh. I wasn't a board member so I can't even begin to understand the task that those folks, probably volunteers, went through each year to pull off the awards. But I always thought the process was more open than it should have been: Publishers didn't have a limit on how many books they could submit and nominations by members were accepted for books not even read by the nominators. Because of this some categories, like YA fiction, would end up with over 150 titles included. What judge has the time to run down and read that many books in the 2 month time frame? Goodbye Cybils! I will miss you.
OMG: I had a dickens of time this week adding images (photos) to the post. The two photos were texted to me from others' phones. When I sent to them to my computer I couldn't add them to the post because they had a .heic file type instead of .jpg. I tried and tried to save them in the other format. Eventually my husband had to download a converter app onto my computer so I could change them into a usable format. Grr. Just when I get used to dealing with the technology at hand, I have to learn something new. Why do tech companies do that?
This week's solar eclipse over Spain:
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| Juan Carlos MuƱo Time-lapse pic by Juan Carlos MuƱoz, astronomer, science communicator and media officer at ESO. Photographed from PeƱafiel in the north of Spain. https://fosstodon.org/@astro_jcm@mastodon.online/117094881754294266 |
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