tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55505763001480853632024-02-07T22:55:28.302-06:00Jen's BlogJenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-87116824896401486642020-01-02T13:44:00.001-06:002020-01-02T14:27:57.779-06:002019<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here we go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>January, February, March</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>Death of a Gossip</u>. M.C. Beaton</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>Death of an Outsider</u>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">M.C. Beaton</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>Death of a Perfect Wife</u>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">M.C. Beaton</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>Death of a Hussy</u>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">M.C. Beaton</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>Death of a Snob</u>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">M.C. Beaton</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>Death of a Prankster</u>. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">M.C. Beaton</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>The Skeleton Road</u>. Val McDermid</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>Out of Bounds</u>. Val McDermid.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>Broken Ground</u>. Vale McDermid.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We went into the year exhausted and I didn't realize how long life had been so hectic until the PTO president emailed me and asked me to send her a copy of the minutes and I realized I had not done so.....for the entire fall semester. Being in the PTO was stressful and there were a lot tense situations at Evelyn's school that didn't make sense until later. My work was the busiest it had ever been and I worked a lot of weekends and stayed a lot of late nights. It was hard for us to make plans. I missed a nephew'</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">s birthday party. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I struggled with trying to keep us in clean clothes, sending in the right amount of money at the right time for school activities, never being able to volunteer, and managing Evelyn's expectations for her birthday because she wanted a big blowout but was born over spring break. One little girl was able to come. I struggled with feeling like I couldn't make anything happen for my girl. It didn't help that she had taken to pointing out how different her life would be if So and So's mom were her mom--like I wasn't already thinking of it every time I saw this person (who is totally nice! And not my enemy and I like her a lot!). The child knows my buttons and just held them down for weeks on end. I almost wrote a birthday post for her at the time and realized I couldn't remember whole months from when she was 7. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think we went out for dinner on Cody's birthday, but I couldn't tell you where or if I remembered to buy him a gift.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A nicer thing about that part of the year that I can remember is that Evelyn went on her first sleepover! She stayed up until 11! The little girl who invited her over then came to Evelyn's first sleepover/birthday party at our apartment! Both experiences were Peak Eight-Year-Old, and Cody and I (along with BFF's parents) were tickled with the whole thing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also, at some point there was a weekend when I roamed through the woods with Evelyn twice and Dallas once. I took his senior pictures just like I did with my other siblings.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">However, he is the only one I didn't shoot with film. Which is for the best, since I think he emailed this to the yearbook editor 20 minutes after we uploaded them.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>April</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Let Me Lie</u>. Clare Mackintosh</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I thought I would try something other than my steady diet of mysteries and didn't care for it. I went part-time in April. I tried to catch up on so many things, but it never gave me back the time I'd already lost. It took me a long time to figure that out. I did love picking up Evelyn from school at the pick-up line on Mondays and Tuesdays. I would frantically spend my day doing errands and taking care of long-neglected chores, and then sit outside her school at 2:30. We would leave the parking lot with the windows rolled down and Nickelback playing at full volume. She felt very cool. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I knitted Cody a sweater. My love obviously knows no bounds, and he knows it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://jenthebossybigsister.blogspot.com/2019/04/easter-2019.html" target="_blank">We went to Mississippi for Easter</a>. There were 2 puppies! 4 kids! I think we hid eggs 5 times! The kids had matching outfits and the adults had a lot of food. No one had any doubt about the rankings, but I'll go ahead and say it: Sara is still the cool aunt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">M is for Malice</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. Sue Grafton.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">An Event in Autumn</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. Henning Mankell, translated by Laurie Thompson. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Wicked Autumn</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. G.M. Malliet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On one of my days off, I went to the library by myself and browsed for a solid hour. It was amazing. We found out Evelyn's school was closing and I was a wild woman trying to find another one that I could feel good about when I didn't feel good about much at all. I loved her teachers and the parents at her school and I miss it still. The evening we found out, I was out to dinner for co-workers. I wanted to stay home but it was to celebrate someone's January birthday, so I felt obligated to go while Cody texted me updates about how she was taking the news. I found out she needed glasses and felt like the world's most negligent mother. She was excited to receive compliments on her bright pink frames. I painted some mineral tubs to brighten up the balcony and planted zinnias and morning glories. The less said about the zinnias the better, but the morning glories did pretty well.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dallas graduated from high school! My nephew Ellis graduated from preK on the same day! Laine somehow made it to both ceremonies! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>June</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>Death of a Nag</u>. M.C. Beaton</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>N is for Noose</u>. Sue Grafton</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Flood, flood, and flood. Evelyn and I were summery girls. She took swimming lessons! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A Fatal Winter</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. G. M. Malliet.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Death of a Scriptwriter</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. M. C. Beaton.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Dark Domain.</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Val McDermid.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Nightblind</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. Ragnar Jonasson.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was so hot I wanted to throw up every time I went outside. But we did try to spend time outside--state parks, the river front, my parents' house, and Dallas's pool were all thoroughly enjoyed. My favorite summer memory was probably when Evelyn and I floated in a pool in some inner tubes that looked like donuts. We held hands and drifted around. I was lightheaded from happiness and from blowing up the inner tubes. She made me watch her jump off the diving board over and over. I waited with the inner tube, ready to catch her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts</u>. Maja Safstrom.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>O is for Outlaw</u>. Sue Grafton</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>Knitting Heaven and Earth: Healing the Heart with Craft</u>. Susan Lydon.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><u>Death of a Travelling Man</u>. M. C. Beaton.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evelyn started her new school. She might have settled into things better than I did. A knitting friend shared some yarn with the rest of our group and I came home with a Rubbermaid tote's worth. Whoops. I knit a bunch of hats.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Pagan Spring</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. G. M. Malliet.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">P is for Peril</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. Sue Grafton.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Demon Summer</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. G. M. Malliet.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><u style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Beowulf</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (graphic novel). Santiago Garcia and David Rubin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cody and I celebrated out 13th wedding anniversary. The weather was a little more manageable, so we had some weekend adventures. We got a better idea of what our evening routine should be, with homework on some nights because that's a thing now. Evelyn started doing gymnastics one night a week and has done okay with the delayed bedtime. If you had told me back in 2015 how much she loves early bedtimes and how promptly she gets herself ready most nights, I would have fainted. I knitted a bunch more hats. I volunteered one afternoon a week with the school's running club. It was super fun to yell encouraging things at kids while they ran their laps and watch them brighten up and go a little faster.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>October</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Haunted Season. G.M. Malliet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Devil's Breath. G.M. Malliet</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Underwater. Casey Barrett</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I went back to work full-time in the middle of October. I spent the last of my free days scouring shops for supplies for Evelyn's costume. It was another exercise in trying to manage her expectations and feeling like an ill-tempered failure at all things craft- and parenting-related, but I'm glad I had the time for it. My very last free day was spent chaperoning at the state fair. Even with the rain and the cold, it was probably one of the best days of the year. We went back that weekend with Cody, and I ate a Frito chili pie. There were so many fancy chickens, I almost couldn't handle it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">After almost completely abandoning Evelyn's input and spending a few late nights covering the living room with pieces of fabric, I finished her Unbeatable Squirrel Girl costume the day before her first Halloween event. There were a lot of Halloween events. She loved wearing her costume and telling people who she was. I was grateful that my sloppy sewing of fake fur onto her jacket held up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">I donated 18 hats and a bunch of yarn to a group that knits hats for the homeless at our library. It felt fantastic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>The Girl Who Lived Twice</u>. David Lagercrantz</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">I don't enjoy any of the Lisbeth Salander novels, but I am apparently going to read all of them. I started a lot of books in November, but I guess I didn't finish many. I took off the week of Thanksgiving because Evelyn was out of school. I had a cold or two. Evelyn probably got an ear infection. I took a trip to the National Quilt Museum with my mom and sisters. We saw a lot of quilts! I was in no way inspired to sew more, but I definitely want to go back to Paducah some time when it's warmer and we can explore more. The windchill was, like, 2! We got matching sweatshirts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Death of a Dentist</u>. M.C. Beaton.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Death of a Macho Man.</u> M.C. Beaton.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>Cocaine Blues: A Phryne Fisher Mystery</u>. Kenny Greenwood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Night Shift.</u> Charlene Harris.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Leaflets: Poems 1965-1968</u>. Adrienne Rich.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There were so many holiday things! I spent the first part of the month shopping and trying to stay on schedule and manage things and mostly succeeded. I turned 37, which felt nice. I took the day off to finish some Christmas errands and have lunch with Evelyn at school. We were basically famous, AND it was pajama day, so she felt like it was the best day ever. I have to agree! I've gotten to see my family a lot this month, and I'm very grateful. Our Christmasses weren't quite what we'd planned, but Evelyn had a good time. We wrapped up the year (and this decade, holy smokes) with friends at a wedding for some loved ones, which seems like a good way to end a year and begin the next one. </span></div>
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(Note: I didn't bother marking library books with an asterisk this time because every single book in this post was a library book. !!!)</div>
Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-53259109468166221762019-09-30T19:08:00.000-05:002019-09-30T19:08:03.175-05:00Book list September 2019<u>Pagan Spring</u>. G. M. Malliet.<br />
<u>P is for Peril</u>. Sue Grafton.<br />
<u>Demon Summer</u>. G. M. Malliet.<br />
<u>Beowulf</u> (graphic novel). Santiago Garcia and David Rubin.<br />
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<u>Pagan Spring</u> was fine, I guess. <u>P is for Peril</u> was pretty great. I can't believe I stayed up past midnight on a weeknight to finish <u>Demon Summer</u> because the last few chapters were kind of dumb (I am still working my way through the series, though). The graphic novel of <u>Beowulf</u> was pretty much what you'd think it would be, which is fine.<br />
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Other September things:<br />
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Cody and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. It was pretty understated, but we were happy. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Us. It's from this weekend, but we were happy then too.</td></tr>
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It was so stinking hot, but Cody and Evelyn went bike riding at least once.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Champions!</td></tr>
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We went to some libraries and museums. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evelyn and a friend at the <a href="https://cals.org/childrens-library/" target="_blank">Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Being a ham at the <a href="https://www.historicarkansas.org/" target="_blank">HAM</a>. <a href="http://www.historicarkansas.org/exhibits/2019-soothsay" target="_blank">This exhibit</a> was pretty neat.</td></tr>
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Evelyn and I have been braiding each other's hair. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Her handiwork.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mine.</td></tr>
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She'll occasionally tolerate other hairstyles as well.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She can also wear my old shirts now! She's super tall.</td></tr>
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We're starting to do a few more activities with Evelyn's school. Cody went to a PTO meeting, we're both signing up for volunteer activities, and Evelyn is in the Little Rockers running club. She disliked her first run last week, but I think she'll like it if she sticks with it. So I'm bribing her with rewards for every 5 miles. 2 miles down, just a few more to go!<br />
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This past Saturday we got out of town for a quick trip to <a href="https://www.blanchardsprings.org/" target="_blank">Blanchard Springs Caverns</a>. We made a few stops at the Natural Bridge and a nice little bakery/cafe in a town called Leslie. I was overjoyed to see big rocks and small towns with odd names. Evelyn got a little tired and cranky by the end, but took a nap on the way home. Cody said his favorite part was the 10 hot and grouchy minutes we spent at the actual springs, go figure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Natural Bridge. I want to stand on this so badly, but it's not allowed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So many formations!</td></tr>
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<br />That's it! Evelyn has big spooky plans for October, and I'm just going to try to keep up. I go back to work full time at the end of the month, and we're going to try to go camping and spend more time outdoors in the (please Lord) cooler weather. It looks like it's going to be full and wonderful time. Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-1952872311971968832019-09-24T09:38:00.000-05:002019-09-24T09:38:26.439-05:00Book list for August 2019All library books:<br />
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The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts. Maja Safstrom.<br />
O is for Outlaw. Sue Grafton<br />
Knitting Heaven and Earth: Healing the Heart with Craft. Susan Lydon.<br />
Death of a Travelling Man. M. C. Beaton.<br />
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My favorite was probably the animal facts books because it had charming pictures. The mysteries were par for the course and the knitting book was not for me.<br />
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Evelyn started a new school year at a new school. Every single day was blazing hot. I knitted a bunch of hats. Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-43017034826862618092019-07-31T20:02:00.000-05:002019-07-31T20:02:07.926-05:00July 2019 book list and a summery update.All library books. All mysteries. All from series I've been enjoying already.<br />
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<u>A Fatal Winter</u>. G. M. Malliet.<br />
<u>Death of a Scriptwriter</u>. M. C. Beaton.<br />
<u>Dark Domain.</u>Val McDermid.<br />
<u>Nightblind</u>. Ragnar Jonasson.<br />
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Other things from July:<br />
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Being the fireworks aunt when my nephews were in town for VBS. (My dad is the tractor driver and my mom is the 'snacks and random firestarter' person, so we're all really cool now.)<br />
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I feel like I've eaten out a lot and I don't feel bad about it (I normally worry about the cost and nutritional value, or lack thereof). It's mostly been chicken strips. It's been convenient and fun. <br />
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I don't know that my yarn stash is very manageable, but it's fairly organized and I have plans for at least half of it. Which is good, because I bought some more today. It was thrilling.<br />
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I am mostly caught up on laundry. We are mostly ready for the new school year. "Mostly" is perfectly good enough for me.<br />
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I love life, but my face still looked like it did when I was harried. So I changed moisturizers and I feel like that helped.<br />
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I may or may not be successfully raising succulents. It's so hard to know with them. But so far, my nondead ones look okay. <br />
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Morning glories are still my favorite thing to wake up to.<br />
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I think Evelyn and I have done maybe half the things we wanted to do this summer. That's fairly great, but I'd like to do more and I'd like to do everything more often. <br />
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But I'm off work all this week so today we walked part of a trail at Toltec Mounds, ate not-BBQ things at a BBQ place in Scott, checked out a produce stand and bought another succulent in a fun planter (along with some okra to surprise Cody with!), played at a park where we were the only people at the playground, hit up a yarn store, and had ice cream after we picked up Cody from work.<br />
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Today I climbed a tree with Evelyn at the park. Cody can't get over this picture of me from today because it's been so long since he's seen me up a tree. I felt right at home.<br />
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-51111073140212446562019-07-14T15:15:00.002-05:002019-07-14T15:15:44.419-05:00June 2019 book listDeath of a Nag. M.C. Beaton*<br />
N is for Noose. Sue Grafton*Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-76846293986984175822019-06-04T18:43:00.000-05:002019-06-04T18:43:42.256-05:00May 2019 book list and a few small updatesHere are the books I finished up in May:<br />
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<u>M is for Malice</u>. Sue Grafton.* Kinsey Milhone is still doing her thing where she solves mysteries in the late 1980s, and I am apparently still doing my thing where I check out these books and read them in order.<br />
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<u>An Event in Autumn</u>. Henning Mankell, translated by Laurie Thompson.* I saw this at the library and did a double take because I thought I had read all the Kurt Wallander mysteries that existed. But this was translated in 2012 and I missed it somehow. It was a nice surprise, and very much needed.<br />
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<u>Wicked Autumn</u>. G.M. Malliet.* A standard cozy mystery except! The mystery-solving priest is a former MI-5 officer with a tragic past! And he became a priest in a rural English village to get away from danger and horror! Which is ridiculous because everyone knows that the moment a new priest comes to a quaint, rural village the dead bodies just pile up from all the murders. This is the first in a series and I'm enjoying it enough to keep going even though the pacing is not my favorite.<br />
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Other things from May<br />
-Little neighbor boy and baby of the family, Dallas, graduated from high school! We were proud and happy. He was tall and only somewhat embarrassed by us.<br />
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-We had a little family gathering around Mother's Day!<br />
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-Evelyn got glasses! She's so cute in them and can see all kinds of things she didn't realize she was missing. Also, she thinks we might look alike now that we have glasses. Apparently we didn't before this.<br />
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-At the beginning of the month, we found out that Evelyn's school was closing down. It was a whole thing. It was unexpected and sad and now we're going to send her somewhere that costs significantly more, which we didn't budget for because we thought she was going to her little school for a few more years. I hate everything about this, but I'm trying to remember to be grateful for the time she had there and all the things she learned in a wonderful environment.<br />
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-Not unrelated to the last thing, we're on a bit of a no-spend at the moment! It's going okay. I still signed Evelyn up for swimming lessons and she had her first lesson today. After she ate her little sack lunch we went to the library and read for over an hour and a half. This is mostly what I checked out.<br />
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-I went part-time about 6 weeks ago. It's a temporary thing that will last until the fall, but I'm really happy that I get to do this (even with the smaller paychecks at an inconvenient time). I spend the first few days off frantically rushing around to take care of tasks I'd neglected for months before it was time to pick up Evelyn from school. By the time I was ready to relax, I wound up spending the time touring schools. But last week I took Evelyn to my parents house and got to play with my nephews for a bit before all the cousins spent the next 3 days together. And yesterday Evelyn and I did nothing. And today we barely did more than nothing. I can't wait to do more of it.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-40100222785809562912019-05-05T19:14:00.002-05:002019-05-05T19:14:36.956-05:00April 2019 book listAs far as I know, I finished one book last month. It was <u>Let Me Lie</u>, by Clare Mackintosh. It looked haunting when I saw it on the library shelf. It had too many twists and the ending made me mad.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-36772959098182310572019-04-23T20:12:00.000-05:002019-04-23T20:12:48.574-05:00Easter 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We went to Sara's house for Easter and it was a fun and noisy time. I brought my real camera and it was a big hit with the nephews. Here are the best ones I took:<br />
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-36999616476049213832019-04-09T03:58:00.002-05:002019-04-09T03:58:39.314-05:00Books read, first quarter 2019Death of a Gossip. M.C. Beaton<br />
Death of an Outsider.<br />
Death of a Perfect Wife.<br />
Death of a Hussy.<br />
Death of a Snob.<br />
Death of a Prankster.<br />
The Skeleton Road. Val McDermid<br />
Out of Bounds.<br />
Broken Ground.<br />
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These were all library books. I might have one or two others, but I didn't write it down anywhere. I read the McDermid books out of order, but am still enjoying myself working my way backwards through the Karen Pirie novels. I'm not sure if I'm enjoying the Beaton mysteries, but I still have two of them beside my bed to read for a couple of pages before I pass out each night.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-41204441726411478072019-01-01T20:06:00.000-06:002019-01-01T20:06:52.615-06:00Book list for 2018<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The stack of books beside my bed.</td></tr>
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Here's what I read in 2018! I'm setting them out in the order in which they were read. Library books are marked, as always, with an asterisk.<br />
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January<br />
The Checklist Manifesto. Atul Gawande.*<br />
The One Full Year Challenge. Brad Hardin.<br />
The Store. James Patterson and Richard DeLallo.*<br />
A Homemade Year. Jerusalem Jackson Greer.*<br />
A Bed of Scorpions. Judith Flanders. *<br />
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February<br />
The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life. Cassandra King. *<br />
Stitches. Anne Lamont.*<br />
Her Fearful Symmetry. Audrey Niffenegger.*<br />
The Western Star. Craig Johnson. *<br />
The Child in the Family. Maria Montessori.*<br />
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March<br />
What Happened. Hillary Rodham Clinton.*<br />
The Four Things that Matter Most. Ira Byock.*<br />
The Lost Hero. Rick Riordan.*<br />
The Rooster Bar. John Grisham.*<br />
Surprise Me. Sophie Kinsella.*<br />
A is for Alibi. Sue Grafton.*<br />
Death of a Cad. M.C. Beaton.*<br />
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April<br />
Death of a Witch. M.C. Beaton.*<br />
B is for Burglar. Sue Grafton.*<br />
C is for Corpse. Sue Grafton.*<br />
D is Deadbeat. Sue Grafton.*<br />
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May<br />
E is for Evidence. Sue Grafton.*<br />
Essentialism. Gary McKeown.*<br />
F is for Fugitive. Sue Grafton.*<br />
Teach Like Finland. Timothy D. Walker.*<br />
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June<br />
Cræft. Alexander Langlands.*<br />
G is for Gumshoe. Sue Grafton.*<br />
Snowblind. Ragnar Jonasson.*<br />
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July<br />
I is for Innocent. Sue Grafton.*<br />
Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995. Adrienne Rich.*<br />
Lumberjanes: Out of Time.*<br />
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August<br />
J is for Justice. Sue Grafton.*<br />
Lumberjanes: Band Together.*<br />
The Breakdown. B.A. Paris.<br />
Lumberjanes: Sink or Swim.*<br />
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September<br />
Home to Harmony. Philip Gulley.*<br />
Cave of Bones. Anne Hillerman.*<br />
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October<br />
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye. David Lagercrantz.*<br />
Two Kinds of Truth. Michael Connelly.<br />
L is for Lawless. Sue Grafton.<br />
Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World. Clara Parkes.*<br />
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November<br />
The Witch Elm. Tana French.*<br />
Death of a Ghost. M.C. Beaton.*<br />
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December<br />
Death of a Nurse. M.C. Beaton.*<br />
At Home in this Life. Jerusalem Jackson Greer.*<br />
Depth of Winter. Craig Johnson.*<br />
Transcription. Kate Atkinson.*Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-87520088505889410642018-10-28T10:47:00.001-05:002018-10-28T10:47:27.732-05:00October I went on a work trip, the weather is cool enough for Cody to bike to work again, and Evelyn has been in full Halloween mode for about 6 weeks. We've been to birthday parties, Halloween parties, and regular ol' parties.<br />
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I'm knitting a lot and easing up on the Sue Grafton novels. I think these are the last of this year's zinnias, but I may have a few more blooms on the balcony before plant season is truly over.<br />
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-68672735223227328622018-09-03T18:23:00.000-05:002018-09-03T18:23:55.287-05:00Book list for August 2018"J" is for Justice. Sue Grafton. *<br />
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"K" is for Killer. Sue Grafton.<br />
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Lumberjanes: Band Together. *<br />
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The Breakdown. B. A. Paris.<br />
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Lumberjanes: Sink or Swim.*Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-10449626315171739512018-08-20T19:57:00.003-05:002018-08-20T19:57:19.638-05:00August 21<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-56196664416000526882018-08-17T10:40:00.000-05:002018-08-17T10:40:37.977-05:00Book list for July 2018July was the month I got a sinus infection, both Cody and Evelyn had ear infections, I did a bunch of work, said goodbye to a dear friend who moved far away, was stressed, was sad, and started at least 6 new knitting projects and started a lot of new books. All hail pseudoephedrine and its power to keep me going when I don't feel good and to convince me that starting just one more project or checking out all those books will somehow fix everything.<br />
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It was not a month for finishing much of anything outside of work projects. It all feels so long ago that I initially looked at my page of books read and typed out the books I read in August.<br />
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"I" is for Innocent. Sue Grafton.*<br />
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Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995. Adrienne Rich.*<br />
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Lumberjanes: Out of Time. Stevenson, Watters, Allen, Laiko. *<br />
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-89310311971250127832018-08-14T07:59:00.001-05:002018-08-14T07:59:44.844-05:00A post for 40 yearsThis weekend we celebrated my parents' 40th wedding anniversary! We met up at Laine's house, ate so much food, held the baby, chased the toddler, lost track of the big kids, drank coffee, snacked, took pictures, forgot stuff (I switched hotel rooms and left my camera behind in the old room and didn't realize it until the next morning. But then I got it back, so there's a happy ending), ate more food, dressed up, chilled out, and laughed a lot.<br />
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It was a fairly perfect way to celebrate a forty-year union that we've been blessed to be a part of.<br />
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Happy anniversary, Mom and Dad!<br />
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-16932592897094928202018-07-26T08:40:00.000-05:002018-07-26T08:40:19.460-05:00Book list for June 2018Craeft. Alexander Langlands.*<br />
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"G" is for Gumshoe. Sue Grafton.*<br />
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"H" is for Homicide. Sue Grafton.*<br />
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Snowblind. Ragnar Jonasson.*<br />
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Cody picked up "Craeft" from the library because he thought it looked like something I would like and now I want to talk about it all the time with anyone I can find. I loved it.<br />
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-61691041555297351782018-07-16T21:24:00.001-05:002018-07-19T20:34:09.846-05:00Book List for May 2018"E" is for Evidence. Sue Grafton.*<br />
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Guy McKeown.*<br />
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"F" is for Fugitive. Sue Grafton.*<br />
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Teach Like Finland. Timothy D. Walker*<br />
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Favorite: I kind of want to teach like Finland now.<br />
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-11431169392809249602018-07-16T21:10:00.000-05:002018-07-18T06:25:23.191-05:00Book List for April 2018Death of a Witch. M. C. Beaton.*<br />
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"B" is for Burglar. Sue Grafton.*<br />
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"C" is for Corpse. Sue Grafton.*<br />
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"D" is for Deadbeat. Sue Grafton.*<br />
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Favorite: So far, I love everything Sue Grafton writes.<br />
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Not favorite: I would prefer not reading any Beaton ever again.<br />
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-38654843846405412252018-07-16T20:59:00.002-05:002018-07-16T20:59:53.484-05:00Book list for March 2018What Happened. Hillary Clinton.*<br />
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The Four Things That Matter Most. Ira Byock.*<br />
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Project Happily Ever After. Alisa Bowman.*<br />
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The Lost Hero. Rick Riordan.*<br />
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The Rooster Bar. John Grisham.*<br />
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Surprise Me. Sophie Kinsella.*<br />
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"A" is for Alibi. Sue Grafton.*<br />
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Death of a Cad. M. C. Beaton.*<br />
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Favorite book: Surprise Me was pretty fun.<br />
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Not favorite: I don't even remember any of those things that were supposed to matter.<br />
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-87738776824622902602018-07-15T08:22:00.000-05:002018-07-15T08:22:33.938-05:00Book List for February 2018The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life. Cassandra King.*<br />
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Stitches. Anne Lamott*<br />
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Her Fearful Symmetry. Audrey Niffenegger*<br />
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The Western Star. Craig Johnson*<br />
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The Child in the Family. Maria Montessori *<br />
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Favorite: Same Sweet, I guess.<br />
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Least favorite: a tie between the horror book that I didn't realize was horror even though it had supernatural twins with unhealthy twinness (Niffenegger) and the one about the murderous cross dresser that had a lot of lazy tropes and ended on a cliffhanger (Johnson, who has really tested my patience with the last 3 Longmire mysteries even though I'll probably read the next book in one sitting).<br />
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-29726737480414330102018-07-14T08:45:00.000-05:002018-07-14T08:45:12.947-05:00Book list for January 2018Books are in the order I read them:<br />
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The Checklist Manifesto. Atul Gawande*<br />
The One Full Year Challenge. Brad Hardin<br />
The Store. James Patterson and Richard Di Lello*<br />
A Homemade Year. Jerusalem Jackson Greer*<br />
A Bed of Scorpions. Judith Flanders*<br />
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Best book of the month: The Checklist Manifesto.<br />
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As always, * = library book.<br />
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Here's a picture from January:<br />
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<br />Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-52493956981679429192017-02-04T16:40:00.001-06:002017-02-04T16:40:24.284-06:00Book list for January 2017Hunting Badger. Tony Hillerman.<br />
An Obvious Fact. Craig Johnson.*<br />
Living Well, Spending Less. Ruth Soukup<br />
Garden of Lies. Amanda Quick.*<br />
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More Hillerman, of course. <br />
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The Longmire book just jumped out at me from the library shelf and I was surprised they had it. It was fun, I guess. <br />
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I borrowed Living Well, Spending Less from Laine and I liked a lot of it. The rest of it, I didn't but whatever. It was one of those things I liked well enough while I was reading it and then kept thinking about all the parts of it that bothered me in the days after I finished it. I got some good things out of it, but can't remember what those are now that I'm typing about it. I'm glad I read it.<br />
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I saw Garden of Lies on a display at the library and Evelyn and I had a lot of fun talking about what a garden of lies would entail. It wasn't that great of a read. I was distracted by the anachronistic language in this attempt at a Victorian detective novel, the weird attempts at romantic banter, and just about everything about this seemed .... off. But it did keep me up a few nights because I liked the dumb diversion. Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-55940044336671685162017-01-28T06:00:00.000-06:002017-01-28T06:00:04.222-06:002016's book listThese are the books I read in 2016. Library books are marked with an asterisk and I'm not going to bother putting them in any kind of order. I just copied and pasted them from the posts where I wrote about them throughout the year (under the <a href="http://jenthebossybigsister.blogspot.com/search/label/book%20list" target="_blank"><b>book list tag</b></a>) and threw in one or two of the novels I read in December. <br />
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It was a big year for Hillerman and how-tos. I'm not sure what this year's reading list might look like. I'm looking forward to finding out, though.<br />
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<u>The Kingdom of Little Wounds</u>. Susann Cokal*<br />
<u>Diving into the Wreck: Selected Poems 1971-1972</u>. Adrienne Rich. <br />
<u>Gray Mountain</u>. John Grisham*<br />
<u>The Leftovers</u>. Tom Perrotta*<br />
<u>Magpies, Homebodies, and Nomads: A Modern Knitter's Guide to Discovering and Exploring Style</u>. Cirlia Rose.*<br />
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<u>Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?</u> Roz Chast.*</div>
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<u>The Dark Wind.</u> Tony Hillerman.</div>
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<u>Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting</u>. Ann Hood, ed.*<u><br /></u>
<u>People of Darkness</u>. Tony Hillerman.<br />
<u>Sacred Clowns</u>. Tony Hillerman.</div>
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<u>The Blessingway</u>. Tony Hillerman.<br />
<u>Talking God</u>. Tony Hillerman. <br />
<u>Step Aside, Pops</u>. Kate Beaton.*<br />
<u>Prepper's Survival Hacks: 50 DIY Projects for Lifesaving Gear, Gadgets, and Kits</u>. Jim Cobb.*</div>
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Things I Learned from Knitting...Whether I Wanted to or Not. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee.*<br />
Listening Woman. Tony Hillerman.<br />
People of Darkness. Tony Hillerman.<br />
My Grandmother's Knitting: Family Stories and Inspired Knits from Top Designers. Larissa Brown, ed.* </div>
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<u>Dry Bones</u>. Craig Johnson.*<br />
<u>The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go so Their Children Can Succeed</u>. Jessica Lahey*<br />
<u>Coyote</u>. Tony Hillerman.*<br />
<u>Blessing Way</u>. Tony Hillerman.*<br />
<u>Dance Hall of the Dead</u>. Tony Hillerman*<br />
<u>The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up</u>. Marie Kondo.*<br />
<u>Pieces: A Year in Poems and Quilts</u>. Anna Grossnickle Hines.*<br />
<u>Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up</u>. Marie Kondo.*<br />
<u>The Little Spark: 30 Ways to Ignite Your Creativity</u>. Carrie Bloomstein.*<br />
<u>The Girl in the Spider's Web</u>. David Lagercrantz.* </div>
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<u>Little Victories: Perfect Victories for Imperfect Living</u>. Jason Gay.* <br />
<u>Skinwalkers. Tony Hillerman</u>.*<br />
<u>Thief of Time. Tony Hillerman</u>.*<br />
<u>Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories</u>. Craig Johnson.*</div>
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<u>Faithful</u>. Alice Hoffman* </div>
Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550576300148085363.post-14486225291753953112016-12-03T19:11:00.000-06:002016-12-03T19:11:20.960-06:00November's Book List<u>The Nameless Dead: An Inspector Devlin Thriller</u>. Brian McGilloway.*<br />
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I thought I might want to try out a new crime series, so I checked this out from the library. I think I'll just get back to the Leaphorn and Chee novels.<br />
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This picture has nothing to do with the books I read last month, and I took it 5 or 6 years ago. The tree is still thriving in our neighborhood and its leaves turned a week or so ago. Evelyn and I went for a walk last weekend and were impressed with how bright the yellow leaves could be.Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04951034575439267042noreply@blogger.com0