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Welcome to my weekly update for February 13, 2022! Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Or, if I have any fellow fans of What We Do in the Shadows out there, Happy Superb Owl Sunday! I'm honestly just here for the food but my husband will be watching and vaguely rooting for the Bengals. I spent a bit of time on Wednesday updating the cover and my mentions of the book George by Alex Gino after Helen at Helen's Book Blog very kindly pointed out that the publisher and author have officially changed the name. They're now being publishing it as Melissa. To quote an article from Publisher's Weekly, "Melissa is the name the character chose for herself at the end of her journey. [Gino] hadn’t intended to imply that a trans person should be called by their former name when they’ve chosen another one." I remember briefly wondering why the book was entitled George when I read it, so I'm happy to reflect the change here. I'm a big National Park geek and have a big, fancy National Park Passport book. I love to collect stamps and stickers for it. We were finally warm enough (and actually in Charleston) this weekend to head out to Fort Moultrie National Historical Park. We've visited the more (in)famous Fort Sumter before (It's where South Carolina secessionists fired the first shots of our Civil War). We happened to visit just as a Park volunteer was starting a tour so we jumped on that and learned a lot. Slideshow: Overlooking Fort Moultrie with Fort Sumter on the low island in the left of the frame. The US was using this version of the flag when the current fort was built. It has 15 stars and 15 stripes. The original plan was to add a star and…

Welcome to my weekly update for February 6, 2022! Today is my dad's birthday so we were able to go home to Asheville to spend the day with him. Happy birthday, Daddy! A few weeks ago I found myself pretty close to Sullivan's Island while running some errands. It was a beautiful weekday morning so I headed on out to the beach for a walk. I had it practically to myself. Slideshow: All images © 2022 Jennifer G. at Introverted Reader Dead tree stump on the beach Sullivan's Island Lighthouse. I think this is the most unimpressive lighthouse I've ever seen! It was built in 1962 as a replacement for the much more picturesque Morris Island Lighthouse, which has been in danger of toppling into the ocean for 60 years but keeps hanging on. I took a picture of these homes because they reminded me a bit of the Northeast. Then I realized that they're in danger of being swallowed by the ocean too. More frequent, stronger hurricanes are taking a very visible toll on our coastlines in the South. Horseshoe crab shell Posted: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame: Book Review Ten Books with Names in the Titles The Light of the Midnight Stars by Rena Rossner, read by Ana Clements: Book Review Monthly Wrap-Up for January 2022 Read: Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #2) by Ransom Riggs--3 Stars Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, written and illustrated by Rachel Ignotofsky--4 Stars The Feast of Roses (Taj Mahal Trilogy #2) by Indu Sundaresan, read by Sneha Mathan--4 Stars The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, edited by Caroline Kennedy--3.5 Stars Currently Reading: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë Wild Rover No More: Being the Last Recorded Account of the Life & Times…

Welcome to my weekly update for January 30, 2022! My mom loves reading all of your comments on my blog and she thanks you for the birthday wishes last week. She asked me to post this picture that summarizes how we deal with snow/ice in the south. Pay attention to the headline on the bottom. Bless our hearts! Posted: They Better Call Me Sugar: My Journey from the Hood to the Hardwood by Sugar Rodgers: Book Review Ten New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2021 Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition by Anton Treuer: Book Review Read: I'd like to report something here but I didn't finish any books this week. I'm going to link to some poems I enjoyed from The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, edited by Caroline Kennedy "Sea-Fever" by John Masefield--Can't you picture the ocean on a wild, blustery day as you read this? "Portrait by a Neighbor" by Edna St. Vincent Millay--I think I would be friends with this free spirit. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost--Most of you are probably familiar with this one but it seems appropriate for a re-read at the end of January. Currently Reading: Hollow City (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #2) by Ransom Riggs The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan, read by Sneha Mathan The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf Up Next: I checked out Women in Science: Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky on my last trip to the library so I'll start it next. I have one cabinet in our RV where I tuck away all my projects, stationery, etc. Digging through it today, I realized that I have about ten books stashed away that I need to…