I don't have much to say as an intro . . . I'll just let the pics and captions tell the story of the "leftovers" of June.
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| 6.6.23 (This is a collection of short stories about the Muslim Eid celebrations. I knew basically nothing about Eid before, so I learned a lot!) |
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| 6.7.23 (we were at the library (surprise, surprise!) and a big storm blew through - crazy wind and rain for a few minutes and then it was done by the time we were leaving.) |
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| 6.8.23 (My latest (and legitimately cool this time) prize from the summer reading program for adults at the library. Something I’ve heard of forever but never actually tried: book darts! They’re little metal arrows that you slide onto a page to mark a line or quote you want to remember. So excited!) |
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| 6.8.23 (Winner winner chicken dinner! I get Chris Barton’s monthly newsletter and he always has a giveaway, which I entered recently and actually won! We love this true story of the inventor of the super soaker and are so excited to have our own copy now!) |
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| 6.12.23 (Also: update about the book darts! They are a dream!! They are not thick, so they don’t make your book bulge out weirdly. They are easy to slide onto the page to mark the exact line of the quote you want to remember. And my favorite part is that I can read without my phone again! Let me explain: instead of copying a quote from a book into a journal or something, I just like to snap a quick pic of the page on my phone and keep reading. The problem is that sometimes I get distracted by said phone, and forget to read. This way I can mark all my favorite parts with the darts and then come back later to take the pictures. 🏆) |
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| 6.12.23 (We’ve been on a bit of a baseball kick this month, and not just with books! ⚾️) |
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| 6.12.23 (I went searching in her room for a library book (actually three) that was due ... (This is not the first pic I have snapped of her bedside book situation, but it still makes me happy.)) |
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| 6.12.23 (Heard about this one on a podcast (surprise, surprise!) and promptly put it on hold. It is a memoir of an npr reporter trying to make the most of her son’s senior year before he leaves for college. To be at every soccer game, etc. That is what I expected going into it, and it definitely is mostly about kids growing up. But there’s a lot more of life included, like friendship, work (those parts where she was off in a foreign country reporting about a war or talking with government officials were super fascinating to me), writing, hearing loss, mothering young kids, aging/dying parents, and (spoiler alert!) divorce (which I was not expecting or seeking out, especially after my latest divorce memoir!). It was really well written and gave me a lot to think about.) |
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| 6.15.23 (womp, womp!) |
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| 6.15.23 (spotted on my way to the old highway beach . . .) |
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| 6.15.23 (I got going down a rabbit hole of old pics and I just couldn't help resaving this one. Aren't they stinkin' darling?!) |
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| 6.16.23 (Sam's latest AT-AT walker out of LEGO - I like how colorful this one is!) |
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| 6.17.23 (Gregg recommended this as a quick, well written, highly engaging story, so I started reading it after he finished and wow! What a tale! I have listened to many Sherlock stories, but I don’t think I’ve actually read one in print, so that was fun. This one starts out like any other Sherlock, and I actually thought I had heard the story before. But then you get to the second half, which is a backstory, not told by Watson and doesn’t have Holmes in it at all, and all of a sudden things start clicking! So fun. I must say, I’m not a Moriarty fan, so I was kind of annoyed at the epilogue, but overall really enjoyed this.) |
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| 6.18.23 (Happy Father's Day! He's the best dad!) |
6.18.23
(Oh, hello baby! Natalia Jane was born
on Father's Day, June 18th at 7:05 pm)
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| 6.20.23 (This one is sad. (I cried silently while reading and sobbed crazily while telling Gregg about it after I finished.) It’s a story of friendship and love between a terminally ill 17 year old and an 83 year old who meet at an art class in a hospital. They work on a project together to commemorate their combined 100 years, and through that you find out their beautiful and hard backstory lives. Not a linear timeline, which makes it seem like a puzzle as pieces click into place as the story progresses. I really loved it. But keep your tissues handy if you read it!) |
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| 6.20.23 (We’ve loved Jabari Jumps for a couple of years but just heard about the brand new sequel! Both are adorable, real life stories of a kid working through fears (jumps) and frustrations (tries). Fun illustrations, too!) |
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| 6.27.23 (look what Cal won!) |
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| 6.27.23 (this was the draft of what she entered . . . we don't have a nice printed copy because she just typed it right into the online submission form.) |
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| 6.27.23 (here's the letter included in the envelope. a few issues: no check was enclosed (because honorable mention doesn't get money), they maybe want an original physical copy of her work (mostly that is just for the art winners), but she should be for sure part of the online show. We will see. . .) |
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| 6.30.23 (when Dad has a $25 gift card from work and he's home alone for Friday pizza and a movie . . . this is what he comes home with) |
Every other round up here (whew!):
2022: Dec | Nov | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan (I got really behind last year, but I'm working on catching up!)
2020: Dec | Nov | Sep | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar Quar + Mar | Feb | Jan
2019: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sep | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
2018: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sept | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
2017: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sept | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
2019: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sep | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
2018: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sept | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
2017: Dec | Nov | Oct | Sept | Aug | July | June | May | Apr | Mar | Feb | Jan
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