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Welcome to my weekly update for August 25, 2024!
This has been a quiet week so far so I don’t have much to report on the personal front. If you were here last week, you know that my local-for-now library was having a contest to name their new carts. I voted for Wheel Gaiman but I was in the minority. Here are the winners in case you were curious!
Posted:
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna: Book Review–4.5 Stars
Ten Characters I’d Like to Befriend
Read:
Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice by David S. Tatel–4 Stars
The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil #1) by Soman Chainani, read by Polly Lee–4 Stars
Currently Reading:
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1) by Tamsyn Muir
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien
The River by Peter Heller, read by Mark Deakins (My husband and I listen to this together on long road trips, so it may linger here for quite a while.)
What did your week look like?
Hosts:
Deb Nance at Readerbuzz hosts The Sunday Salon and Kimberly at Caffeinated Book Reviewer hosts Sunday Post. Kathryn at Book Date hosts It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
19 Comments
I’ve read a couple books (fiction) about Fly Girls and their stories are so interesting. Why don’t we teach about them in high school history?!
Good question! I know there’s a certain baseline we should be taught but why not squeeze the interesting stuff like this in between the wars and other very serious things?
Fly Girls is on my (crazy-long) TBR list! I’m hoping to get to it sooner rather than later, though. It really sounds interesting, and it’s certainly not something I learned about elsewhere.
I don’t feel like I’ve gotten very far in it yet and I’ve already learned so much about the early female fliers.
That’s really cool! I’ll have to see about bumping it up higher on my list.
All the cart names are great. I see that my choice of Cart Vader made the cut. Nice looking assortment of books too. I’d also like to befriend some of the same characters. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
I thought of you when I saw that Cart Vader made the cut.
I think Wheel Gaiman was a great name.
I’m glad someone agrees with me!
That’s too many puns for me!
My husband agrees with you. He actually has a mind for puns but he looks like he’s been physically assaulted when I read him punny jokes.
OMG, those cart names are awesome. I wonder if my library’s carts have names.
Aren’t they? I loved them!
Those cart names are so much fun! I think Wheel Gaiman was clever, too, but I suspect it may have been ruled out because of recent allegations of sexual assault brought by several women. (Google “Rolling Stone Neil Gaiman allegations” if you’re curious.)
I loved The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches! I’d love to read your review, but not until I get my own very overdue review written.
Have a great week, and enjoy the books you’re reading—they look good!
Oh, I hadn’t heard about Gaiman. Ugh. I love his books. It’s surprisingly disappointing when a celebrity we admire but don’t actually know behaves badly. I thought it might have been because he hasn’t been publishing much lately. Thanks for letting me know.
Those cart names are so clever… thanks for the laugh today!!
I’m glad you enjoyed them! Someone got very creative with those names 🙂
They seemed to prefer the ones with cart in them, all fun. I love how you get to drop into different pockets of the country and its culture.
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
I love all the cart names. Fun!
Fly Girls sounds good. I’m starting to make a list of what I want to read for Nonfiction November, and I may look for Fly Girls later in the year.
My week was fairly quiet, too.