Welcome to my weekly update for September 7, 2025! I’ve been fighting a cold all week. Yuck. I tested for covid twice and I was negative both times but I just can’t quite kick this thing to the curb. I don’t tolerate any cold or sinus meds well so I just have to suffer through every sniffle, cough […]
What an absolute delight! I just texted my sister to recommend Greenteeth to her. I wrote, “It’s an old school fantasy/fairy tale. It felt a little retro in a time when fantasies are either urban fantasies or sprawling epics with 50,000 characters and entire magic/religion/political systems […]
Hello! I’m trying something a little different this month. I always like to see what my fellow book lovers are watching. If I like your book recommendations, it stands to reason that I would like your screen recommendations too. I occasionally share what my husband and I are watching but I include […]
Welcome to my weekly update for August 28, 2025! My husband is on call to respond for emergencies at the hospital where he works this weekend (just a normal part of his role), so we can’t get out and celebrate the holiday weekend. You would think that means some good reading time for me but as luck […]
Welcome to my weekly update for August 10, 2025! Why, hello there! I have disappeared for five months, as seems to be my habit in the summer. We get busy exploring wherever we are and other things, including my blog, fall by the wayside. When I last posted on March 23, we were near San Diego […]
4 Stars. John Wesley Powell caught my attention when my husband and I visited the Grand Canyon in 2013. I would periodically think that I should read a book about him and then I would forget about it. When we visited Lake Powell and Horseshoe Canyon in Page, AZ a few months ago, I decided that it […]
Welcome to my weekly update for March 23, 2025! It was a fairly quiet week. We went to the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Japanese Friendship Garden and Museum in San Diego last weekend. It was way more crowded than we would have liked but the garden is always beautiful. Then on Thursday evening we […]
4 Stars. I dinged book two of this series for being a little too reminiscent of Harry Potter. I still see direct parallels between a lot of the plot points in this book and The Wizarding World but I must not have cared as much this time around. It’s been two years since I listened to Amari and the Great […]
4 Stars. It is absolutely amazing to me that the author and her team tracked down this man who had evaded capture for 40-some years in 63 days. Days. She is quick to point out that the officers, medical examiners, forensics workers, and others kept this cold case alive and laid the groundwork for […]
Welcome to my weekly update for March 16, 2025! I’ll keep this as apolitical as possible, but I wanted to let you know that I recently used the 5 Calls app to contact my Congressman and Senators about an issue. I cannot adequately express how much I hate calling strangers but I decided that I need […]
Every time I read a book by Ann Patchett, I wonder why I don’t read her work more often. She’s a thoughtful, beautiful writer. I guess I’m spreading out the love by reading her books slowly. This book is an exploration of family relationships and the bonds between siblings and between parents and […]