7/17-7/23

This was a very interesting history of a local unsolved murder outside Troy in 1908. The case is still unsolved but after an extensive review of the known facts the authors put forth their suspect.

Great book.

Found at the vacation house that we rented in 2025 June. I read the June chapter for the Summer Reading Challenge short story or essay square. What a great writer! He really captures nature and is so engaging. Makes me want to stand in a forest quietly and take it all in. Beautiful! Wish I could take the book home.

A really good book with really good poems, but some poems were a bit to sad and dark - maybe not for you. I REALLY enjoyed the happy, uplifting poems, though!

I want to be a doctor too

Detailed tips on how to travel solo safely and creatively

I listened to this audiobook recently. In the beginning, it presented such a quirky story - a young woman is convinced by an old friend to become a caretaker to her fiery stepchildren - that I thought about abandoning the book. But the more I listened, the more I was hooked. Kevin Wilson writes so perfectly and in such a familiar tone that you come to believe there might be some combustible children out there. At its core, I think it is a story about family and parenting, and the actions taken by parents to protect and nurture their kids, especially those with special needs. If you can tolerate quirky, I recommend this book.

It was pretty strange listening to this YA title from the DC Icons series the same week as I was watching season 2 of The Handmaid's Tale! This is a narrative adaptation of Black Canary's origin story. Dinah Lance is the daughter of the original Black Canary, living in a Gotham City controlled by the Court of Owls. Females are banned from holding certain jobs and wearing unauthorized clothing. Their singing voices have been chemically silenced. Do you ever have strange, unplanned convergences like this? I will suggest this to teen readers who enjoy reading or viewing the Netflix movie of Moxie.

It's a really good book because it's very humorous and has very small but strong details. For example, he does not like his sister, and when her hair turned green, he made a very funny song about her. I also really like the little flip bug.