tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91902017667124052352024-03-19T04:48:12.622-04:00Wendie's WanderingsJust a few notes from my adventures as a writer and a children's librarian.Wendie Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05720582855824814088noreply@blogger.comBlogger1388125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-11975474064203668282024-03-14T11:58:00.001-04:002024-03-14T11:58:23.585-04:00Pi Day -- March 14 <p> Yummy -- Pie</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJUGME8dH0hkToxQQLSjF3FcImmT0iuJAWVhmX9Azwmltk2Y8SBsV4cPLvYfbuNkdsAFUQhNTPVpCXe6ETFyWAqV3zDMrnW-H2jyPJIxMvFwcazKI6tGdweaD-3umgNDL5OkYHuiolEiHUzJbTPlMewMBLaXjyXoLzlsnZ0yhBJGD46bU7VydKiW4pKvr/s301/Pi%20Pie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="301" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJUGME8dH0hkToxQQLSjF3FcImmT0iuJAWVhmX9Azwmltk2Y8SBsV4cPLvYfbuNkdsAFUQhNTPVpCXe6ETFyWAqV3zDMrnW-H2jyPJIxMvFwcazKI6tGdweaD-3umgNDL5OkYHuiolEiHUzJbTPlMewMBLaXjyXoLzlsnZ0yhBJGD46bU7VydKiW4pKvr/s1600/Pi%20Pie.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hfWjdLUo6fm02rj-HaurexHSulNYTRSjHxQVuSzRd7TBlWu926ilmYmE3MbDgOHknQ1ocPouQM2hFgxxAy_VeI6H9gG-hmyPaDxB19Z9B83pqVIFF4-kBDwkAIT7BvQFG2_Sxi4fvqYH4H7G7oixtRpWg8I7T7HOpQfa0WoYIj4PYyDXZcqdDMHaE60v/s1750/Pi%20Boynton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="1750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hfWjdLUo6fm02rj-HaurexHSulNYTRSjHxQVuSzRd7TBlWu926ilmYmE3MbDgOHknQ1ocPouQM2hFgxxAy_VeI6H9gG-hmyPaDxB19Z9B83pqVIFF4-kBDwkAIT7BvQFG2_Sxi4fvqYH4H7G7oixtRpWg8I7T7HOpQfa0WoYIj4PYyDXZcqdDMHaE60v/s320/Pi%20Boynton.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-39434711164038339822024-03-12T10:41:00.000-04:002024-03-12T10:41:04.836-04:00How I began working my way through school (and college)<p> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In the 1950s high school meals were made in large batches from scratch, so when I knew they'd be serving my favorite meals, I'd join the volunteer students who helped serve and then I could eat as much of my favorite food as possible for free. (me- on the Academic track - got to know a lot of the kids on the commercial track that way. </span><span class="x1xsqp64 xiy17q3 x1o6pynw x19co3pv xdj266r xcwd3tp xat24cr x39eecv x2b8uid" data-testid="emoji" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/teb/2/16/1f642.png"); background-size: 16px 16px; cursor: default; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="xexx8yu xn5pp95 x18d9i69 x2fxd7x x1yqt14a x1bhl96m">🙂</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">They also pointed out that I could skip the last weeks of school before Christmas by joining their training classes that trained kids to work in stores during the Christmas rush. What's not to like? I got paid plus got the store discount to buy presents for my family. And I had a large family.)</span></p><p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">And I used that training to work part time all throughout my college years, even in grad school.</span></p><p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Since I had a year of secretarial training my first year of college, I then had the skill to part-time join a typing pool and then was promoted to operate the very first IBM </span>word processor - the MT/ST Machine. </p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156; font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #d3e3fd; color: #040c28; font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">MT/ST (Magnetic Tape/Selectric Typewriter)</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #4d5156; font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, which connected the Selectric typewriter with a separate magnetic tape drive. Magnetic tape was the first reusable storage medium for typed information.</span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-78767490760290510852024-03-01T16:05:00.001-05:002024-03-01T16:05:31.480-05:00Driving while unborn<p> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I have a traffic ticket. I happened to turn right on red -- which is legal in California - but got caught with a traffic camera. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Two things. The beginning of the pictures they captured showed me turning at 0 seconds, which means it was still yellow (also legal in California) AND the actual ticket sent to me showed NO money owed -- because it put my birth date at 2026. In other words, I was driving a car but I hadn't been born yet. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The person at the courthouse gave me my ticket back and told me that, if California hadn't contacted me with a bill in a year, I was home free. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">(that year ends in a week - and I'm still waiting for a bill) </span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-17589239894476010622024-02-26T17:38:00.002-05:002024-02-26T17:38:30.594-05:00Using spreadsheets and other things<p> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I was forced to take a secretarial course after high school. The only way my parents would let me to away to college (a Junior College/ now called community college) was if I promised to take something that I could use to get a JOB! So I did. Typing. shorthand. accounting and spreadsheets. (and chemistry, believe it or not- the male teacher hated having 'girls' in his chemistry class.) </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Although I transferred to an academic track my second year there (without telling my parents), you know what? I've Always used those secretarial things. (except shorthand. forgot most of it) </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Got a part time job working my way through college as a typist and also typed other student's papers. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Have used the accounting and spreadsheet knowledge all my life. Very helpful during the times I have to figure out IRS Income Tax reporting. (got my spreadsheets up on my computer right now, calculating my deductions and expenses because of being a writer) </span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-4829039114062445342024-02-19T11:50:00.002-05:002024-02-19T11:50:34.346-05:00Secondary character takes over the story<p> <span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">And there I was, writing away, and suddenly a super talkative secondary character appeared. Now, I'm quiet and shy. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">How was I going to write this 'different' character? </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">(first readers loved this character more than my they did my main character, so I did him right. But obviously the main character needed more work. How was she going to sparkle with that annoying secondary character around?)</span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-80643639529556070442024-01-30T12:32:00.004-05:002024-01-30T12:32:48.539-05:00Adventures in Grad school - German<p> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My grad school wouldn't accept my undergraduate German language credit, so I had to take German again in grad school. </span></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Easy peezy, right? nope. The teacher walked into the room talking in German and she wouldn't stop to translate. Instantly I was treading water there and had to work desperately hard to keep up in that class or else I'd not get my graduate degree. </span></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We were living in college married housing and I told my husband (also a student) that for that semester, I wasn't doing any housework or cooking. It would be Study German All The Time for me. (yes, I passed. Whew!)</span></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Some years ago I had met my husband-to be in German class. He was great in languages, so his German credit was accepted by the grad school.)</span></span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-22542053411896349992024-01-13T11:37:00.003-05:002024-01-13T11:37:51.177-05:00Why did you become a librarian?<p> <span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I was in Junior College. (nowadays they are called community colleges and offer two years of college at a reduced rate). My mother insisted that I could only go if I learned a skill - so I signed up for the secretarial course, but took as many academic courses as I could. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">In my English class, along with all the writing assignments (and typing other people's papers because I could type - yay Secretarial course), the teacher talked about choosing our profession. I had taken those tests that supposedly told you what profession I was suited for, but it came out vague, right on the line between MEN's professions and women's professions. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">This professor talked about - if you liked this you'd be good at this profession and if you like that you'd be good at that profession, but if you were interested in EVERYTHING, you should be a librarian. Lightbulb moment. !!! I focused on becoming a librarian - working part time in the college typing pool because - Yay secretarial course.</span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-56227486528532286292024-01-08T10:33:00.002-05:002024-01-08T10:33:52.754-05:00Enjoying life <p> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I expected to live until 75. My husband died at age 69 - but he was sick for many years so 69 was a great milestone for him and I treasure the years I had with him. I'm now lots over 75 and yes, I give myself little pleasures. I moved west to live near my children. I completed a second master's degree - this time in writing. I fly once a year, so I treat myself to first class. I live - not at, but close to the beach and treat myself to walking on or near the beach several times a week. Got chased up onto the parking lot by a huge wave last week. A group of us ran from that wave and it was fun. When our family was younger , we couldn't afford to travel and stay in hotels/ motels, so our family brought our tent and we camped instead. By going to various conventions related to our work or to our outside interests, we got to see various parts of our country. I've seen the Mississippi several times, the Great arch at St. Louis, and the grand canyon -- all from the window of an airplane as I traveled to visit relatives. Got to see the Alamo (a disappointment - it's surrounded by city and smaller than expected) when visiting relatives in Texas. Drove to Florida, to see relatives, and enjoyed the bathtub warm Gulf of Mexico. I've been to both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. (never enough time to see everything, tho) I've lived in the Appalachian mountains and have visited the Rockies. (I've lived in 5 states.) I've enjoyed playing in various orchestras, including a community orchestra made up of performers of all ages, where I sat next to a guy who became part of the rock group, Chicago. Two guys proposed to me right after they tasted the pumpkin pie that I made. One of them proposed simply because he realized I could cook. </span><span class="x1xsqp64 xiy17q3 x1o6pynw x19co3pv xdj266r xcwd3tp xat24cr x39eecv x2b8uid" data-testid="emoji" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/teb/2/16/1f642.png"); background-size: 16px 16px; cursor: default; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="xexx8yu xn5pp95 x18d9i69 x2fxd7x x1yqt14a x1bhl96m">🙂</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> I told them both that I was determined to get a college degree before I got married. (got married to a different guy and we both went to grad school together, which was fun.)</span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-50854118069886112942023-12-31T16:13:00.003-05:002023-12-31T16:13:54.481-05:00Books read 2023 - Adult Books<p> <b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ADULT FICTION = Read in 2023</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Bradley, Alan. <i>The sweetness at the bottom of the pie, a Flavia de Luce Novel</i>. NY: Bantam <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">books/ Random House, 2009. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The weed that strings the hangman’s bag, a Flavia de Luce Novel</i>. NY: Delacourt Press <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">/ Random House, 2010. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>A red herring without mustard, a Flavia de Luce Novel</i>. NY: Delacourt Press <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">/ Random House, 2011. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>I am half-sick of shadows, a Flavia de Luce Novel</i>. NY: Delacourt Press <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">/ Random House, 2011. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">(many awards including the Crime Writer’s Association Debut Dagger Award.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Bujold, Lois McMaster. <i>Penric’s progress</i>. Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (trilogy of the first three books. Includes the first book – <i>Penric’s Demon,</i> which had <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">previously only been available in e-book format, 2015. I hope she gets her other e-books <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">published in this trilogy format because I’ve discovered there are many more of his tales besides the ones listed below which DO come in book format.) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Penric and the Shaman, a fantasy novella in the world of the five Gods.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Burton, MO: Subterranean Press, 2016.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Penric’s Mission, A fantasy novella in the world of the five gods</i>. Burton, MO: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Subterranean Press, 2016.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Penric’s Fox,</i> <i>A fantasy novella in the world of the five gods</i>. Burton, MO: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Subterranean Press, 2017.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Mira’s last dance,</i> <i>A fantasy novella in the world of the five gods</i>. Burton, MO: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Subterranean Press, 2017.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The prisoner of Limnos,</i> <i>A fantasy novella in the world of the five gods</i>. Burton, MO: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Subterranean Press, 2017.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The physicians of Vilnoc,</i> <i>A Penric and Desdemona novella in the world of the five gods</i>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Burton, MO: Subterranean Press, 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Knot of Shadows,</i> <i>A Penric and Desdemona novella in the world of the five gods</i>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Burton, MO: Subterranean Press, 2021.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Cass, Laurie. <i>Lending a Paw</i>, <i>a bookmobile cat mystery</i>. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Large <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Print/ Penguin-Random, 2013.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Tailing a tabby,</i> <i>a bookmobile cat mystery</i>. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Large <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Print/ Penguin-Random, 2014.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Borrowed Crime, a bookmobile cat mystery</i>. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Large <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Print/ Penguin-Random, 2015.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Pouncing on Murder,</i> <i>a bookmobile cat mystery</i>. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Large <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> Print/ Penguin-Random, 2016.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Cat with a Clue,</i> <i>a bookmobile cat mystery</i>. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Large <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> Print/ Penguin-Random, 2017.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Wrong Side of the Paw,</i> <i>a bookmobile cat mystery</i>. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Large <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> Print/ Penguin-Random, 2017.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Booking the crook,</i> <i>a bookmobile cat mystery</i>. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Large <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> Print/ Penguin-Random, 2019.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Gone with the whisker,</i> <i>a bookmobile cat mystery</i>. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Large <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> Print/ Penguin-Random, 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Checking out Crime</i>, <i>a bookmobile cat mystery</i>. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Large <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> Print/ Penguin-Random, 2021.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The crime that binds,</i> <i>a bookmobile cat mystery</i>. Thorndike, ME: Center Point Large <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> Print/ Penguin-Random, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Castillo, Linda. <i>Sworn to silence, a thriller</i>. NY: Minotaur books, 2009.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Pray for Silence,</i> <i>a thriller</i>. NY: Minotaur books, 2010.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (it turns out that I prefer “cozy mysteries,” not stressful ones like this series)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Connelly, Michael . <i>The Lincoln Lawyer</i>. NY: Little Brow and Co,. 2005.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Davidson, Diane Mott<i>. Catering to nobody. </i>NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.<i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i> …. Dying for chocolate</i>. NY: Bantam Books, 1992.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The Cereal Murders</i>. NY: Bantam Books, 1993.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The Last suppers</i>. NY: Bantam Books, 1994. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Killer Pancake</i>. NY: Bantam Books, 1995.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. The main corpse. NY: Bantam Books, 1996.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The Grilling Season</i>. NY: Bantam Books, 1997.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Prime Cut</i>. NY: Bantam Books, 1998.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Tough Cookie</i>. NY: Bantam Books, 2000.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. Sticks & Scones. NY: Bantam Books, 2001.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Chopping Spree.</i> NY: Bantam Books, 2002.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Double Shot</i>. NY: Harper Torch, 2004.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Dark Tort.</i> NY: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2006.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Sweet Revenge</i>. NY: Avon/ HarperCollins, 2007.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Fatally Flaky</i>. NY: Avon/ HarperCollins, 2009.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Crunch Time</i>. NY: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2011.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The whole enchilada, a novel of suspense</i>. NY: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2013.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Deveraux, Jude. <i>The Princess</i>. NY: Pocket Books/ Simon and Schuster, 1987. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i> …. A Knight in shining armor</i>. NY: Pocket Books/ Simon and Schuster, 1989, 2002.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Remembrance</i>. NY: Pocket Books/ Simon and Schuster, 1994.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The Invitation.</i> NY: Pocket Books, 1994. (three short stories)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Legend</i>. NY: Pocket Books, 1996.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>High Tide.</i> NY: Pocket Books/ Simon and Schuster, 1999.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Forever…, a novel of good and evil, love and hope</i>. NY: Pocket Books/ Simon and <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Schuster, 2002.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The Mulberry Tree</i>. NY: Atria Books, 2002.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Forever and Always</i>. NY: Pocket Books/ Simon and Schuster, 2003.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Always</i>. NY: Pocket Books/ Simon and Schuster, 2004. (high suspense)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Holly</i>. NY: Atria Books, 2004.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Someone to love</i>. NY: Atria Books, 2007. (not time travel, but ghosts from the past)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Return to summerhouse</i>. NY: Pocket books, 2008. (time travel-to medieval times)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (Sequel to <i>The Summerhouse</i>. I had thought I had already read this book, but the story<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> was brand new to me. Nice surprise) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Days of gold, a novel.</i> NY: Atria/ Simon and Schuster, 2009.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Lavender morning, Edilean novel, book 1</i>. NY: Atria/ Simon and Schuster, 2009.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Scarlet nights, a novel</i>. NY: Atria/ Simon and Schuster, 2010.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Heartwishes, an Edilean novel</i>. NY: Atria/ Simon and Schuster, 2011.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The scent of jasmine</i>. NY: Pocket Books, 2011. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Moonlight in the morning</i>. NY: Pocket Books, 2012.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Stranger in the Moonlight, a novel.</i> NY: Pocket Books, 2012.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Moonlight Masquerade,</i> <i>a novel</i>. NY: Pocket Books, 2013.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Change of Heart, an Edilean novel</i>. NY: Pocket Books, 2014.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>As you wish.</i> NY: Mira, 2018. (return of the Summerhouse time travel person)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Met her match</i>. NY: Mira, 2019.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>My heart will find you</i>. NY: Mira, 2023. (another time travel tale)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Garmus, Bonnie. <i>Lessons in Chemistry</i>. NY: Doubleday Books, 2022. (now a streaming series)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Irwin, Sophie. <i>A Lady’s guide to fortune-hunting, a novel</i>. NY: Viking, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (If you are a Georgette Heyer fan, this is for you.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Lackey, Mercedes. <i>By the Sword</i>. NY: Daw Books, 1991.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Sword of Ice and other tales of Valdemar, edited by Mercedes Lackey</i>. NY: Daw Books, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">1997. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Oathblood</i>. NY: Daw Books, 1998.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The Black Swan.</i> NY: Daw Books, 1999.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Reserved for the Cat, the elemental masters, book 5</i>. NY: Daw Books, 2007.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Gwenhwyfar, the white spirit</i>. NY: Daw Books, Inc. 2009.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (The tale of three – no four – Guineveres)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Steadfast, the Elemental Masters, book 8</i>. NY: Daw Books, 2013.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Elementary, all-new tales of the Elemental Masters,</i> edited by Mercedes Lackey.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> NY: Daw Books, 2013. (cover shows items from her full length elemental masters<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> books, but only one of them actually relates to any of her books, I think it’s the first<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"> chapter of <i>From a High Tower</i> or one of the others that take place in the Schwarzwald.) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Into the West, the founding of Valdemar: book 2.</i> NY: Daw Books, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Shenanigans, all new tales of Valdemar.</i> NY: Daw Books, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (short stories edited by Mercedes Lackey.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Gryphon in Light, Kelvren’s Saga, book 1</i>. NY: Daw Books, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Bradley, Marion Zimmer; Norton, Andre; and Lackey, Mercedes. <i>Tiger Burning Bright</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> NY: William Morrow & Co, 1995. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Huff, Tanya. <i>The Demon’s Den and other tales of Valdemar, in the world created by Mercedes <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>Lackey</i>. NY: JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc, 2018. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">(A collection of her short stories previously published in various Mercedes Lackey edited short story books)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Oliver, Patricia. <i>Double Deception</i>. NY: Signet/ Penguin books, 1997.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Patterson, James. <i>1<sup>st</sup> to die, The women’s murder club book 1</i>. NY: Little Brown and company,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> 2001. (He certainly does write short chapters)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>2<sup>nd</sup> Chance,</i> <i>The women’s murder club</i>. NY: Little Brown and company, 2002. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>3 days to die</i>. <i>The women’s murder club</i>. NY: Little Brown and company, 2003.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. And Maxine Paetro. <i>4<sup>th</sup> of July</i>. <i>The women’s murder club</i>. NY: Little Brown and<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> company, 2005. (ah – now he’s giving credit to his co-writer)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. (both authors<i>) 5<sup>th</sup> Horseman</i>, <i>The women’s murder club</i>. NY: Little Brown and<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> company, 2006. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. (both authors<i>) 6<sup>th</sup> Target</i>, <i>The women’s murder club’s toughest case ever- a serial<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i> kidnapper is stalking the city</i>. NY: Little Brown and company, 2007. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Pattterson, Susan and Susan DiLallo with James Patterson. <i>Things I wish I told my Mother.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">NY: Little Brown & co/ Hachatte book group, 2023. (James P. has a book line with this<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"> company, so his name also goes on every one of them and he gets the copyright rights.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"> Shocking ending. Be prepared to cry.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Quinn, Julia <i>Minx</i>. NY: Avon Books/ HarperCollins, 1996. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>To catch an heiress.</i> NY: Avon Books/ HarperCollins, 1998.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>First comes Scandal, a Bridgerton prequel.</i> NY: Avon Books/ HarperCollins, 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">See, Lisa. <i>Lady Tan’s circle of women</i>. NY: Scribner/ Simon & Schuster, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Sutanto, Jesse. <i>Vera Wong’s unsolicited advice for murderers, a novel</i>. NY: Berkley/ Penguin<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Random House, 2023. (now a movie, too) By the author of <i>Dial A for Aunties</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Taylor, Jodi. <i>Hope for the best, the chronicles of St. Mary’s</i>. London, England: Headline <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Publishing group, 2019. (Time travel)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Plan for the worst,</i> <i>the chronicles of St. Mary’s</i>. London, England: Headline <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Publishing group, 2020. (Time travel)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Another time, another place.</i> <i>the chronicles of St. Mary’s</i>. London, England: Headline <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Publishing group, 2021. (Time travel)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>A catalogue of catastrophe.</i> <i>the chronicles of St. Mary’s</i>. London, England: Headline <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Publishing group, 2022. (Time travel)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Tey, Josephine. <i>Miss Pym Disposes</i>. NY: Scrivener/ Simon & Schuster, 1976.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Winspear, Jacqueline. <i>A sunlit weapon, a Masie Dobbs novel</i>. NY: HarperCollins, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>The White Lady, a novel</i>. NY: Harper/ HarperCollins, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (a stand alone taking place during the 2 world wars and afterwards in England and <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Belgium. Not connected to her Masie Dobbs stories of the wars.) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Zevin, Gabrielle. <i>Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow</i>. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (The lives of Game creators.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">823.08766 <i>The Book of Dragons</i>. Edited by Jonathan Strahan. Illus. Rovina Cai. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">NY: Harper Voyager, 2020. (A collection of poems and short stories)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b>ADULT BIOGRAPHY</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">B-Felton Felton, Tom. <i>Beyond the Wand, the magic & Mayhem of growing up a<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i> Wizard</i>. NY: Grand Central Publishing/ Hachette Book Group, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">B-Heumann Heumann, Judith with Kristen Joiner. <i>Being Heumann – an unrepentant memoir <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>of a disability rights activist.</i> Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2020. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">B-Hutchinson Hutchinson, Cassidy. <i>Enough</i>. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">B-Patterson Patterson, James. <i>James Patterson by James Patterson, Stories of my life</i>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">B-Stewart Stewart, Patrick. <i>Make it so, a memoir.</i> NY: Gallery books/ Simon & Schuster,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> 2023. (our favorite Star Trek the next generation Captain and leader of the X-Men. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">It turns out he’s better known as a Shakespeare actor and has actually worked with my aunt, who was the vocal coach of the Royal Shakespearian Company.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">B-Trump Haberman, Maggie. <i>Confidence Man – the making of Donald Trump and<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i> the breaking of America. </i>NY: Penguin Press, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">B-Winspear. <i>This time next year we’ll be laughing, a memoir.</i> NY: Soho Press, 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (author of the <i>Mazie Dobbs</i> mystery series which take place during WWI and WWII)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">813.52 Nel, Philip. <i>Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss -- how an unlikely couple found <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>love, dodged the FBI, and transformed children’s literature</i>. Jackson, MS: University <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Press of Mississippi, 2012. (An awkward biography written like a university dissertation. The photographs have too much source information, but no indication where the photograph was taken or the circumstance – information that readers would rather have had. Good Index and extensive bibliography and footnotes, and yet when I tried to locate the source of a quote, the footnote was so abbreviated that it did not lead me to the original source.) <i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b>ADULT NONFICTION</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">320.973B Borowitz, Andy. <i>Profiles in Ignorance: how America’s politicians got dumb and<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i> dumber.</i> NY: Avid Reader Press/ Simon & Schuster, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (I was expecting the usual comedy from this writer, but this is a factual report about<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">politicians whom I have observed in real life and yes, he has them exactly.) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">324.2734D Draper, Robert. <i>Weapons of mass delusion, when the Republican party lost its <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>mind. </i>NY: Penguin Press/ PenguinRandomHouse, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">384.55 Wolf, Michael. <i>The Fall – the end of FOX news and the Murdoch Dynasty</i>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">NY: Henry Holt and Co, 2023. (Well written/ well researched) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">791.4575B Britt, Ryan. <i>Phasers on stun!, how the making (and remaking) of Star Trek<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i> changed the world.</i> NY: Plume/ PenguinRandomHouse, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">973.934 Taylor, Miles. <i>Blowback – a warning to save democracy from the next Trump</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> NY: Atria books, 2023. (Miles Taylor is the Anonymous author who wrote the warning<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> article in the New York Times exposing how Trump was corrupting the Presidency <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">with the help of people around him – his loyal followers. That article said he was part of <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">the Adults in the room who were trying to keep the government on a steady keel. But<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> most of the ‘Adults’ were booted out and Trump began putting people loyal to his <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">dictatorship in. This time Taylor is warning us what the next take-over by Trump and his<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> criminal gang would be like if he is elected president – mostly destroying our <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Democracy and vowing to put his ‘enemies’ in prison, something he is repeating more<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> and more these days. An Important read.)<o:p></o:p></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-38223932172236645752023-12-31T16:09:00.004-05:002023-12-31T16:14:57.801-05:00Books read 2023 - Children's Books<p> <b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Booklist of Books Read in 2023</span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b>Picture Books<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Appelt, Kathi. <i>Counting Crows</i>. Illus. Rob Dunlavey. NY: Atheneum books for young readers/<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Simon & Schuster, 2015.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Bagley, Jessixa. <i>Boats for Papa</i>. NY: Roaring Brook Press, 2015. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Baker, Keith. <i>L M N O peas</i>. NY: Beach Lane books/ Simon & Schuster, 2010.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (Alphabet book)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Blackall, Sophie. <i>Negative cat.</i> NY: Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Random, 2021.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Bledsoe, Josh. <i>Hammer and nails</i>. Illus. Jessica Warrick. NY: Flashlight press, 2016<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Boynton, Sandra. <i>Woo Hoo! You’re doing Great</i>! NY: Little Brown & Co, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Brown, Peter. <i>Mr. Tiger goes wild</i>. NY: Little brown and Co., 2013.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2014 Boston Globe/ Horn Book illustrator award, and others)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Celenza, Anna Harwell. <i>Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite</i>. Illus. Don Tate. Watertown, MA: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Charlesbridge, 2011. (Music CD included) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Charles, Tami. <i>All Because you matter</i>. Illus. Bryan Collier. NY: Orchard/ Scholastic, 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Cohen, Paula. <i>Big dreams, small fish.</i> Montclair, NY: Levine Querido, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2023 Sydney Taylor Honor award)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Cronin, Doreen. <i>Click, clack, Moo, cows that type</i>. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2001 Caldecott Honor book)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">De La Pena, Matt. <i>Last stop on Market Street</i>. Illus. Christian Robinson. NY: GP Putnam sons/<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Penguin group, 2015. ( 2016 Newbery Medal, Corretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">and a Caldecott Honor) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">De Seve, Randall. <i>This story is not about a kitten</i>. Illus. Carson Ellis. NY: Random House <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Studio, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Denise, Christopher. <i>Knight Owl</i>. NY: Little, Brown and Co, 2022. (2023 Caldecott Honor)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Diterlizzi, Angela & Tony. <i>A very cranky book</i>. NY: Quill tree books/ HarperCollins, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Doerrfeld, Cori. <i>The Rabbit Listened</i>. NY: Dial books/ PenguinRandom, 2018.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Donaldson, Jula. <i>The Gruffalo</i>. NY: Dial Books, 1999.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Dyckman, Ame. <i>Dandy</i>. Illus. Charles Santoso. NY: Little Brown & Co., 2019.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Ferneyhough, Liza. <i>Nana, Nenek, & Nina</i>. NY: Dial Books for young readers, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2023 ALA Asian Pacific American Award.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Ferry, Beth<i>. The Scarecrow.</i> Illus. The Fan Brothers. NY: Harper, 2019.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Fraser, Lu. <i>The littlest Yak.</i> Illus. Kate Hindley. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree, 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Gehl, Laura and Tom Lichtenheld. <i>One big pair of underwear</i>. NY: Beach Lane Books/<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Simon&Schuster, 2014. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>One big pair of underwear,</i> (board book) NY: Little Simon. 2018. (contains full text)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Peep and Egg, I’m not hatching</i>. (board book) NY: Little Simon. 2016.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. Peep and Egg, <i>I’m not Trick-or-treating.</i> NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Goade, Michaela. <i>Berry song</i>. NY: Little, Brown and Co, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2023 Caldecott Medal Honor book, Notable Children’s books)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Going, K.L. <i>Dog in Charge</i>. Illlus. Dan Santat. NY: Dial books, 2012.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Gordon, Gus. <i>Herman and Rosie</i>. Neal Porter books/ Roaring Brook Press,, 2013.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Hennessy, B.G. <i>The once upon a time Map Book, take a tour of six enchanted lands</i>. Cambridge, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">MA: Candlewick press, 1999.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Hobernam, Mary Ann. <i>The seven silly eaters</i>. Illus. Marla Frazee. NY: Browndeer Press/ <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Harcourt Brace & Co, 1997.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Higgins, Carter. <i>Big and small and in-between</i>. Illus. Daniel Miyares. San Francisco, CA: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Chronicle Books, 2022. (2023 Geisel Award)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Knudsen, Michelle. <i>Library Lion</i>. Illus. Kevin Hawkes. 2006. (many awards) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Marilyn’s Monster</i>. Illus. Matt Phelan. Sommerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2015.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Lindstrom, Carole. <i>We are water protectors.</i> Illus Michaels Goade. NY: Roaring Brook Press,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> 2020. (2021 Caldecott Award)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">McGinty, Alice B. <i>Bathe the cat.</i> Illus. David Roberts. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2021.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Messner, Kate. <i>Once upon a book</i>. Illus. Grace Lin. NY: Little Brown and Co., 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (Caldecott Honoree Illustrator Grace Lin forces you to read the book twice – once for the<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> story and twice for the illustrations, to find the rabbit she put on every page and to <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">appreciate how the girl’s dress changes on each page.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Morales, Yuyi. <i>Dreamers</i>. NY: Neal Porter Books/ Holiday House, 2018.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Munsch, Robert. <i>The paper bag princess</i>. Illus Michael Martchenko. Toronto, Canada: Annick<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Press Ltd., 1980.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Noll, Amanda. <i>I need my monster.</i> Illus. Howard McWilliam. Brooklyn, NY: Flashlight Press,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> 2009.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Oliver, Carmen. <i>Bears make the best reading buddies</i>. Illus, Jean Claude. North Mankato, MN: Picture window books/ Capstone, 2016.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Nambi, Shoshana. <i>The very best Sukkah, a story from Uganda</i>. Illus Moran Yogev. Moosic, PA:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Kalaniot Books, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">(2023 Coretta Scott King author award, National Jewish book award)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Nickel, Sandra. <i>Big bear and the little fish</i>. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2023 Charlette Huck Award)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Petty, Dev. <i>I don’t want to be a frog</i>. Illus. Mike Boldt. NY: Doubleday, 2015.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Portis, Antoinette. <i>A seed Grows</i>. NY: Neal Porter books, Holiday House, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2023 Sibert honor award, Geisel honor award)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Rinker, Sherri Duskey. <i>Goodnight, goodnight, construction site</i>. Illus. Tom Lichenneld. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> San Francisco, CA: Chronicle, 2011. (I read the board book version)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Salati, Doug. <i>Hot Dog</i>. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. (2023 Caldecott Medal Award)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Savage, Stephen. <i>SuperTruck</i>. Neal Porter books/ Roaring Brook Press, 2015.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Scanlon, Liz Garton. <i>Noodle & Lou</i>. Illus. Arthur Howard. NY: Beach Lane Books/ Simon &<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Schuster, 2011.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>One dark bird</i>. Illus. Frann Preston-Gannon. NY: Beach Lane Books, 2019.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Shea, Bob. <i>Chez Bob</i>. N: Little, brown and Company, 2021.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Smalls. Irene. <i>My Nana and me.</i> Illus. Cathy Ann Johnson. NY; Little Brown and Co., 2005.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Stein, David Ezra. <i>Interrupting Chicken</i>. Sommerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2010.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2011 Caldecott honor book)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Sullivan, John. <i>Kitten and the night watchman</i>. Illus. Taeeun Yoo. NY: Paula Wiseman book,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Simon & Schuster, 2007.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Underwood, Deborah. <i>Bearnard’s Book</i>. Illus Misa Saburi. NY: Henry Holt and Co, 2019.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Vischer, Frans. <i>A Very Fuddles Christmas.</i> NY: Aladdin/ Simon & Schuster, 2013.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Wallmark, Laurie. <i>Rivka’s presents</i>. Illus. Adelina Lirius. NY: Random house, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Her eyes on the stars – Maria Mitchell, astronomer</i>. Berkeley, CA: Creston<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Books, 2023. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Watt, Melanie. <i>Scaredy squirrel makes a friend</i>. Tonowanda, NY & Toronto, ON, 2007.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Wheeler, Lisa. <i>Someone builds the dream.</i> Illus Loren Long. NY: Dial books for young readers/<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Penguin Random, 2021. (heavy construction of the plans others make)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">White, Dianne. <i>Dark on Light</i>. Illus. Felicita Sala. NY: Beach Lane Books/ Simon & Schuster, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Green on Green</i>. Illus. Felicita Sala. NY: Beach Lane Books/ Simon & Schuster, 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Willems, Mo. <i>Goldilocks and the three dinosaurs</i>. NY: Balzer + Bray/ HarperCollins, 2012.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Windness, Kaz. <i>Bitsy Bat, school star</i>. NY: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Yoon, Salina. <i>Be a Friend.</i> NY: Bloomsbury, 2016.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b>Nonfiction Picture Books<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">J 620.136 Theule, Larissa. <i>Concrete from the ground up</i>. Illus Steve Light. Sommerville, MA:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span> </span> Candlewick<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> Press. 2022. (2022 ALSC Notable Children’s Books)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b>I Can Read<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Emberley, Michael. <i>I did it!</i> NY: Holiday House, 2022. (2023 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> winning Book)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Dubois, Liz Goulet. <i>That egg is mine!</i> Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2023 Crystal Kite Award, New England Region)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Iwai, Melissa. <i>Gigi and Ojiji.</i> NY: Harper, 2022. (2023 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Madan, Vikram. <i>Owl and Penguin</i>. NY: Holiday House, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">(2023 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Ruzzier, Sergio. <i>Fish and Wave.</i> I Can Read Comics. NY: Harper/Alley, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">(not a graphic style. Not a comic.) (2023 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b>J – FICTION :<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> Anderson, M.T. (Tobin) <i>Elf Dog and Owl Head</i>. Illus. Junyi Wu. Somerville, MA: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Candlewick Press, 2023. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Bramucci, Stephen. <i>Race for the Ruby Turtle</i>. NY: Bloomsbury children’s books, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Christmas, Johnnie. <i>Swim Team- small waves, big changes.</i> NY: HarperAlley/ HarperCollins, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">2022. (graphic novel) (2022 National Book Award Long list) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">(2023 Coretta Scott King Honor book) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Clayton, Dhonielle. <i>The Marvellers.</i> NY: Henry Holt and Co, 2022. (Texas Bluebonnet winner)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Holm, Jennifer L. <i>The lion of Mars</i>. NY: Random House, 2021. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Jordan, Anna. <i>Shira & Esther’s double dream debut</i>. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-indent: 3pt;">2023. (told in present tense by a narrator who keeps inserting his own amusing comments, explaining what’s happening and translating parts to English for the reader.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">King, Amy Sarig. <i>Attack of the black rectangles</i>. NY: Scholastic Press, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (She is an ALA Margaret A. Edwards award winner. I happen to have met both her and<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> the author she features in this story – Jane Yolen. Based on a true story about what<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">happened to Jane’s book The Devil’s Arithmetic. Sure to be banned in Florida<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> because “Attack…” features censorship of books.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Lowry, Lois. <i>The Winderby puzzle, history and story</i>. NY: Clarion Books/ HarperCollins, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Luqman-Dawson, Amina. <i>Freewater</i>. Boston: Little Brown and Co, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2023 Newbery Medal)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Nash, Mary. <i>Mrs. Coverlet’s magicians</i>. Boston: Little Brown and Co, 1961. (I was surprised to<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> find this at my local library. Their copy is 47 years old and still in good shape.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Soontornvat, Christina. <i>The Last Mapmaker.</i> Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2023 Newbery honor book, plus other awards) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Sutanto, Jesse o. <i>Theo Tan and the fox spirit.</i> NY: Feiwel and Friends, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Theo Tan and the Iron Fan</i>. NY: Feiwel and Friends, 2023. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (The author of the fun adult book, <i>Dial A for Auntie</i>, this delves into Asian based<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> fantasy.) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Van Draanen, Wendelin. <i>Mr. Whiskers and the shenanigan sisters</i>. NY: Alfred A. Knopf/<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Penguin Random House, 2023. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">(I’ve tried writing several stories from the viewpoint of a dog, but this one is the best!)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Wrede, Patricia. <i>The dark lord’s daughter</i>. (possibly book 1) NY: Random House, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> ( I can’t wait for the next book in this series.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Yang, Kelly. <i>Front desk</i>. NY: Scholastic, 2018. (2019 Asian Pacific American Award)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Three Keys, a front desk novel</i>. NY: Scholastic, 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Room to Dream</i>. <i>a front desk novel</i>. NY: Scholastic, 2021. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Key Player</i>, <i>a front desk novel</i>. NY: Scholastic, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>New from here</i>. NY: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Finally Seen</i>. NY: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2023. (mentions book banning)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b>YA Fiction:</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Springer, Nancy. <i>Enola Holmes and the black barouche.</i> NY: Wednesday Books/ St. Martin’s,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> 2021. (this series is now a popular movie series)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><i> …. Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade</i>. NY: Wednesday Books/ St. Martin’s,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> …. <i>Enola Homes and the mark of the mongoose</i>. NY: Wednesday books/ St. Martin’s Press,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> 2023. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Urban, Linda. <i>Talk Santa to Me. </i>NY: Atheneum/ Simon & Schuster, 2022.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (Excellent, by a graduate and now faculty member of VCFA)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">Wrede, Patricia and Caroline Stevermer. <i>The Grand Tour or the purloined coronation regalia – <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>being a revelation of matters of high confidentiality and greatest importance, including<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><i> extracts from the intimate diary of a noblewoman and the sworn testimony of a lady of quality</i>. NY: Harcourt Inc., 2004.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b>PICTURE BOOK BIOGRAPHIES:</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">JB Bartali Hoyt, Megan. <i>Bartali’s Bicycle, the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy’s secret hero</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> NY: Quill Tree Books / HarperCollins, 2021. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">JB Barton Friddell, Claudia. <i>To the Front! Clara Barton braves the battle of Antietam</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> Illus. Christopher Cyr. NY: Calkins Creek/ Astra Books, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">JB Gilmore. Rockliff, Mara. <i>Sweet Justice, Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery bus boycott. </i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> Illus. R. Gregory Christie. NY: Rando House Studio, 2022. (ALA Sibert Honor book)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">JB Heumann <span style="color: #202124;">Cocca-Leffler, MaryAnn. <i>Fighting for Yes! The story of disability rights activist<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span style="color: #202124;"> Judith Heumann. With a note from Judith Heumann</span></i><span style="color: #202124;">. Illus: Vivien Mildenberger. NY: <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: #202124;">Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2022. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #202124;">JB Heumann Pimentel, Annette. <i>All the Way to the Top, How one Girl’s Fight for American<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span style="color: #202124;"> with Disabilities Act Changed Everything. Illus. Nabi Ali</span></i><span style="color: #202124;">. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #202124;"> Explore, 2020.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">JB Knox Silvey, Anita. <i>Henry Knox -- bookseller, soldier, patriot</i>. Illus: Wendell Minor.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/ Clarion Books, 2010.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">JB Ocasio-Cortez Denise, Anika Aldamuy<i>. Phenomenal AOC, the roots and rise of <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.</i> Illus. Loris Lora. NY: HarperCollins, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> (2023 Pura Belpre’ Illustrator Honor award)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">JB Winton Sis, Peter. <i>Nicky & Vera, a quiet hero of the Holocaust and the children he <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>rescued.</i> NY: Norton Young Readers, 2021.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">GN J B Santat, Dan. <i>A first time for everything.</i> NY: First Second/ Roaring Brook Press,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> 2023. (Graphic novel memoir) (National Book Award Winner- young people’ literature) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b>J and YA BIOGRAPHIES:</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">J Butler Zoboi, Ibi. <i>Star Child, a biographical constellation of Octovia Estelle Butler</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> NY: Dutton, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">YA-B Heumann Heumann, Judith with Kristen Joiner. <i>Rolling Warrior – The incredible, <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>sometimes awkward true story of a rebel girl on wheels who helped spark a Revolution</i>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2021. (A great Read; better than her adult autobiography.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">J Pinkney Pinkney, Jerry. <i>Just Jerry – how drawing shaped my life, a memoir</i>. NY: Little,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Brown and Company, 2023.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><b>J and YA NONFICTION: <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">J 333.9541 O’Connell, Jennifer<i>. Elephants Remember, a true story</i>. Thomaston, MA: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Tilbury House publishers, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">J 362.779 Yang, Kao Kalia. <i>From the tops of the trees</i>. Illus. Rachel Wada. Mn: Carolrhoda<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Books, 2021. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">(<span style="background: repeat white;">2023 Asian/Pacific American</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #4d5156;"> </span></span><em><b><span style="color: #5f6368;">Award</span></b></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #4d5156;"> for picture books. 2022 Notable Award.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #4d5156;">YA 688.7 Stone, Tanya Lee. <i>The good, the bad, and the Barbie; a doll’s history and her <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background: repeat white; color: #4d5156;">impact on us – Unauthorized</span></i><span style="background: repeat white; color: #4d5156;">. NY: Viking/ Penguin, 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #4d5156;">YA GN 920.72 Anderson, Laurie Halse, editor. <i>Wonderful Women of the World</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #4d5156;"> Crowfordsville, IN: DC Comics, 2021. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #4d5156;">(short, graphic novel type biographies of 24 women) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: repeat white; color: #4d5156;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">J 940.5318 Stiefel, Chana. <i>The tower of life, how Yaffa Eliach rebuilt her town in stories and<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i> photographs</i>. Illus. Susan Gal. NY: Scholastic Press, 2022. (2023 Sydney Taylor Book<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"> Award, Robert F. Sibert Honor book, and Russell Freedman Nonfiction Award)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">J 940.5449 Stone, Tanya Lee. <i>Peace is a Chain Reaction, How World War II Japanese <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>balloon bombs brought people of two nations, together</i>. Somerville, MA: Candlewick <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Press, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">J 973.0496 Weatherford, Carole Boston<i>. Standing in the need of prayer, a modern retelling of <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>the classic spiritual</i>. Illus. Frank Morrison. NY: Crown BFYR, 2022. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> (2023 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;">976.6 Grann, David. <i>Killers of the Flower Moon, the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"> NY: Crown books for young readers/Random House, 2021. (the YA version)<o:p></o:p></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-90733046321212602002023-12-26T22:57:00.005-05:002023-12-26T22:57:29.065-05:00Happy Boxing Day -How many miles do you walk a year?<p>I seemed to have missed blogging for most of December. I hope you had a nice holiday season or are having a nice holiday season. </p><p>People are discussing how many miles they walked this year so I gave myself a math problem this evening. I walk a mile a day and then i put my cell phone down and it stops calculating steps</p><p>So I wondered how many miles I walk in a year. Activated the computer calculator and multiplied one mile by twelve months. Hmmmm. I'm sure I walked more than 12 miles.</p><p>Then I had an idea. There are 365 days in the year - give or take. Multiply THAT by one mile a day and you get -- 365 miles. No, I didn't use the calculator for that. My brain told me "Don't be silly. Do it in your head." </p><p>Ya -- 365 days multiplied by one mile a day is -- TA-DAH -- 365 miles.</p><p>Geeeezzzz! </p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-73662134299854094502023-11-17T16:27:00.004-05:002023-11-17T16:27:51.145-05:00No Thanksgiving plans<p> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Our plans are no plans. For years I helped my mother with Thanksgiving. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Then i became THAT mom and was up at 6:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving day to prepare everything - having already baked 4 pies the day before. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Then I retired from work, moved to California to be near my children. (Could they have moved any further away from Maryland? geezzzz.) Then I retired from doing Thanksgiving and turned it over to my oldest daughter. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> This year I retired from Thanksgiving completely. Oldest daughter is going skiing. (broke both her legs skiing last year but hey, she loves skiing. She says she'll be careful) Second child is married to a Native American and therefore does NOT celebrate Thanksgiving. (Whatever happened to the historical fact of pilgrims and native Americans having a harvest celebration together?) My third child doesn't want to have Thanksgiving with her friends this year, so she has promised to bake pumpkin pies for me. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">yum. </span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-70744127377631288282023-11-14T14:33:00.001-05:002023-11-14T14:33:12.335-05:00Talking to Middle Schoolers about the writing profession<p> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I always ask for two tables whenever I'm asked to participate in the local Middle School display of different professions in the Springtime. (It has a different name, but I forget) It exposes those kids to a variety of jobs they could think about. We always try to make it fun for them. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I have a video running that answers all the questions their teachers have printed out and they have to answer about my profession. (I ask for the list ahead of time) </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I have a three foot model of the Wright Brother's Flyer alongside my books about them plus some of the awards those books have been given. I have copies of my books. I have examples of editor's notes on manuscripts. Plus I have a galley sheet from a picture book that shows how they are printed. Plus some folded and gathered samples. (F&Gs)</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It's a madhouse of classes flowing in and out , talking to them, and answering questions. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Fun!</span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-89481789502525818702023-11-10T10:57:00.001-05:002023-11-10T10:57:12.455-05:00Telling time these days<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">When I used to wear a watch (when we all wore watches), I insisted on a water resistant one because having babies and toddlers in the house, I was constantly dunking them in water to wash body parts off as they explored the world or needed bathroom stuff. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It wasn't until my watch stopped working on a trip that my granddaughter convinced me that - actually grandma - we carried cell phones all the time and cell phones told us the time, so why wear a watch? I haven't worn a watch since. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I do have a clock in my bedroom from way back when we used those to set alarms to wake us up. (replaced by cell phone alarm) plus the stove and microwaves also tell the time. By now, I've actually stopped looking at my wrist when I want to know the time. </span></span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-23726825736367592582023-11-06T10:34:00.003-05:002023-11-06T10:34:59.580-05:00President Kennedy shot November 22, 1963<p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">There are certain events in your life that you never forget. A friend on FaceBook brought this up and we chimed in with our own memories.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> I was in college, practicing my bassoon in the music building in college when someone ran down the hall, knocking at everyone's practice room door yelling that President Kennedy had been killed. We didn't believe him. Then another person announced it and another and we slowly came to the realization that it might be true.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This was a few days before Thanksgiving, November 22, 1963. I lived in a house full of girls, not the dorm, so we had to rent a TV set so we could watch the news. For hours we watched. Nobody went to classes. Finally the University simply declared classes closed and said we could all go home early for Thanksgiving. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">At that time I had been knitting a scarf for my current boyfriend and continued to knit it as we watched TV for hours for several days. Yes, we saw Oswald being shot, live, on TV. My knitting became quite tight and after I finished the scarf later, I noticed that the foot length of scarf that I knitted during that time period was tighter making the scarf about an inch narrower at that point. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">So many other drastic events happened in the 1960s, so it's no wonder those of us who lived thru them have stark memories of them:</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The Cuban missile crisis in October of '62. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The Birmingham Church bombing in Sept. of '63.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> JFK - November 22 of '63.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Lee Harvey Oswald killed two days later. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Martin Luther King in April of '68. Robert Kennedy in June of '68.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Sharon Tate in August of '69. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Students at Kent State College in May of '70.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Underneath all of this rumbled the background news from Viet Nam. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Many felt that the 60s ended what had been a kind of national euphoria of emerging from WWII. Adults in their 40s in 1960 grew up during the Great Depression. The contrast between how they lived before WWII and the economic boom after the war must have been a constant surprise. </div></div><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-50032775757913811262023-11-03T15:39:00.000-04:002023-11-03T15:39:04.776-04:00Asking for the wrong person<p> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I was awoken from my morning nap with a call from Social Security asking for Francis. Big red flag. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1) my husband, Francis, has been dead for quite a few years and the real social security knows this. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> 2) My husband never used my cell phone or ever put my cell phone number down as his phone number. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3) I could hear lots of other people on telephones in the background. (a boiler room of scammers or a call center of scammers) </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">4) I wish I had been awake enough to give a clever answer. All I said was, "Francis has been dead and the REAL social security knows this," and I hung up. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">But couldn't get back to sleep, darn it. </span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-39965131445166284582023-11-02T15:28:00.001-04:002023-11-02T15:28:16.146-04:00Do not feed wild animals<p> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Too many people don't know the difference between wild animals and Build-a-bear stuffed animals. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> No, a bear is not a nice doggie. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's break it to you quickly - bears would like to kill you if you get in their way or think you're threatening her children. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Secondly. if you feed wild animals, they will stop avoiding people (to stay safe) and will begin approaching people - Demanding food and not caring if they injure a hiker just to get into their backpack to get the FOOD. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And if they decide that YOU taste good, that ruins the whole area for any other people. (not to mention the damage to you.)</span></p><p><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Guess what? </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">EIGHT MILES of the most beautiful and colorful part of the Blue Ridge Parkway has been closed due to tourists feeding bears. !!!</span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-39738813774827029642023-10-27T16:44:00.003-04:002023-10-27T16:44:51.003-04:00If you see this, you know she's going to get in trouble.<p> You just know that the protagonist of the story you're reading is going to get in trouble, the minute you read the first words of the chapter:</p><p>"My only excuse is that I was left unsupervised."</p><p>(Protagonist had been ill and her family thought they had left her sleeping. But no.)</p><p>So - she decides to make dinner for everyone and - partially destroys the kitchen in the process.</p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-44816617571049870062023-10-05T11:00:00.001-04:002023-10-05T11:00:00.151-04:00Suffragette sash<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">My grandmother was a suffragette; I still have her sash. People talked me into wearing it when I voted for Hillary Clinton. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Wright brothers' father walked in suffragette marches alongside their sister. He always supported the causes of his children. (He was a Bishop in his religion)</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-49296282924817538982023-10-02T12:00:00.001-04:002023-10-02T12:00:00.131-04:00Authors and Illustrators make a picture book<p> W<span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">hen we write the words for a picture book, we have no idea what the illustrator will do with them; they often expand the story into different directions that the writer didn't expect. (which </span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" tabindex="-1"></a><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">is a GOOD thing and makes the story better, IMO)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The best examples of 'words meshing with illustrations" is when an author/ illustrator (the same person) does the book. People who write picture books are at the mercy of the illustrator and the editor because of that wall that forbids the author from ever talking to the illustrator. Note - Every recent Caldecott winner in recent years was either an author/ illustrator or at least best friends with the illustrator so they worked together to make the best book they could.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Perennial favorite -Where the Wild Things Are by author/ illustrator Maurice Sendak - is a wonderful example of how the illustrations expand the story. (I've sometimes done a page by page talk about this book with students doing a report on Sendak. ) </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Look at the white space and how he uses it.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-12983142225793528022023-10-01T15:13:00.000-04:002023-10-01T15:13:03.752-04:00Happy October<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDU-TfYem-L9I8V62vuKRj65CHHp52FOZ3TIrRop2ivECwrWuZ_JOALrFGhvh1WkK1d2yVu88thtOfBnW_TqEeK7ZJ67dKtHrklngO37oHY72NGubaVA8b1DN8cHiFbIulijhUSTPzwSTpbscAcGYV6WcAYTbX7PJzy3zuT-h7xZLThoD2WHuMioZvcGnu/s2048/IMG_0141.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDU-TfYem-L9I8V62vuKRj65CHHp52FOZ3TIrRop2ivECwrWuZ_JOALrFGhvh1WkK1d2yVu88thtOfBnW_TqEeK7ZJ67dKtHrklngO37oHY72NGubaVA8b1DN8cHiFbIulijhUSTPzwSTpbscAcGYV6WcAYTbX7PJzy3zuT-h7xZLThoD2WHuMioZvcGnu/s320/IMG_0141.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Happy October.</span></div><p></p><p>Spider month. </p><p>Pumpkin month. </p><p>Fun for kids </p><p>and horror movies for older people. (ick) </p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-80620968795225033012023-09-17T11:39:00.003-04:002023-09-17T11:39:47.406-04:00Finding a writer's critique group - or not<p> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I have failed at finding a writer's critique group that suits my needs. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">My first one was a collection of beginners , so it was the blind leading the blind. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">After I had several published books I outgrew that one and tried some others. Sometimes I was the only one who knew anything about the publishing world, so the group wasn't helping me grow and they were ignoring me anyway, so I quietly dropped out. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In others, it was all fiction novel writers and I was writing nonfiction -- mostly biographies. I definitely didn't fit. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Now I'm writing mostly picture books and yes, also biographies. So - should I join a picture book group or a nonfiction group? (there are few to no nonfiction groups.) </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The two of us nonfiction writers in the large Baltimore writer's association would often cling together, especially because we were published and most everyone else there weren't. </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The very best writer's group I ever belonged to wasn't a critique group at all. It was a group of published Maryland writers who met an hour away from where I lived, but the conversation was great! (It was an hour and a half if I was coming from my workplace, but I still attended when I could.) </span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-37341182667964181672023-09-09T12:44:00.006-04:002023-09-09T12:44:44.749-04:00It's spider time again<p> Opened my front patio gate to get to my car one day and hmmm - something was hanging at eye level. When I re-focused, it was a spider web with small spider in the middle. So I picked up some pine cones and threw them at it until I destroyed the web so that I could pass through. Spider gone.</p><p> Next day = no spider at my gateway. She had moved into my patio. She wasn't blocking my pathway to my car, so we ignored each other. </p><p>Then the hurricane came through and spider and web washed away. Good. </p><p>However -- today I noticed she's back, right in the very same spot, blocking my idea of sitting in my front patio or sweeping the pine needles off the patio. errrgggg. </p><p>Yes, it's a huge web - with a half inch spider in the middle of it. </p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-30702626642035877582023-09-04T11:54:00.000-04:002023-09-04T11:54:03.388-04:00Adventures with names<p>So you want something to eat?</p><p>Walk into (or call) your favorite restaurant. Order food for Take Out. (Or Carry Out? Or whatever that particular restaurant has decided to call it) Now they want your name.</p><p>I used to simply give my last name - Old.</p><p>Wrong</p><p>They can't spell it. And If they spell it 'Auld,' there's no way they'll find your order when you try to pick it up. Or they wait and wait for the rest of your name. Surely it's - Olds or Olden or Oldenham or something more than OLD. (when computers were young, the computers wouldn't even accept a name that short)</p><p>So I changed to giving my first name -- Wendie.</p><p>oops - nobody can spell Wendie. This is what I've gotten over the years.</p><p>Wendel (hey that's a boy's name; surely you can look at me and see that I'm female)</p><p>I go weekly to a local place and order a lovely salad and you'd think they'd know my name by now, but no. It's been Leslie and a few days ago it was Randy. I never make a fuss when they spell it Wendy because that's close enough, but RANDY? Really???</p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9190201766712405235.post-50066052228960210052023-08-31T08:50:00.000-04:002023-08-31T08:50:05.741-04:00Where's the delete key?<p> <span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">When we traveled to visit my parents, we didn't have a laptop so my husband went into computer withdrawal. So I handed him a pad of paper and a pencil so he could write the memo he was thinking about writing (and sending to his staff - when he got home) </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Just to pull my leg, he looked at the pencil , looked at me and said, "But where's the Delete key?"</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> I gave him the beady eye and pointed to the eraser.</span><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span></p>WendieOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10683371939986973782noreply@blogger.com0