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Fleet Week and books, Sept-Dec 2024
Fleet Week in San Francisco, October 2024
The Blue Angels, the biggest draw for these events. Definitely not something I can even imagine doing.
Parade of Ships, not as impressive as I thought it would be.
-by Benjamin Stevenson
Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone: murder mystery, good fun. Set in Australia, I've been on a roll Australian setting...may be time to visit!
-by Richard Osman
We Solve Murders: A new group of folks to solve murders-love it, can't wait for the next one!
-by Percival Everett
The Trees: Fantastic read! An odd murder gets stranger and stranger. The root is the lynching of Emmett Till and it can be hard to read a lot of this book, but very satisfying at the end.
-by Margareta Magnusson
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: The Swedish grandma version of Marie Kondo. If you haven't thought at all about prepping for end of life this is a lovely place to start. If you have, this is just another version of it.
-by Jo Callaghan
In the Blink of an Eye: An AI policeman joins a cold case investigation. The AI learns from the human, the human learns from the AI. Nothing new, and the mystery was obvious even to me.
-by Lianne Moriarty
Here One Moment: A plane full of people get told when and how to expect their death. We learn the stories as they take fate into their own hands, or not.
-by Peter Turchin
End Times: The Path to Political Disintegration: Thoughts on possible futures. The wealth divide has rarely ended well in the past. I really enjoyed this book and have continued to think about the ideas. Highly recommend.
It was not really all that, but we hung out and chatted with our friends and that made for a great day.
-by Adam Mansbach
The Golem of Brooklyn: The Golem is brought to life in modern day Brooklyn and has adventures with the art teacher who brought him to life.
We stayed for the airshow.
-by Martha Wells
The whole Murderbot series, my comfort reading!
-by T. Kingfisher
Thornhedge: A retelling of Sleeping Beauty. A totally different read on the story-fun!
-by Terry Pratchet
Hogfather: Christmas in Discworld, and the year there is trouble. I've been meaning to read this around the holidays for years, finally got to it. Really lovely. I heard there is a tv adaptation, maybe next year.
Also, not anything I need to see again, but glad I've seen it?
-by Michael Easter
The Comfort Crisis: I can't believe I finished this. He is so annoying. I even agree with some of the ideas and am interested in others, but the level of bro-osity is just too high.
DNF
-Hernan Diaz
Trust: it is all the rage, but I read the first quarter, then went to summaries and meh, no need to finish.
-by Richard Price
Clockers: He is a screenwriter and this got made into a movie. Not bad, but for me it needs to be cut back to keep my interest. It is 1980's poor side of Chicago (?) and the people that sell drugs.
-by Philippa Gregory
Normal Women: Interesting mini profiles of normal women in history that you wouldn't hear about. But there was a lot of it and I couldn't finish it all.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Halloween at Great America, Oct 2024
Repurposed carousel horse!
Love the embroidered pumpkin.
A hay bale 'maze' with decorative gourds and a story.
I'm not sure there were mice in the story, but here they are anyway.
Cute!
I was impressed that they added new areas, including an Oktoberfest beer tent and bar games.
Look what can be done with gourds!
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Guggenheim April 2024
After DC we visited friends in NYC. We got to see Hadestown, eat amazing food, hang in Central Park, and visit the Guggenheim museum.
A second exhibit about fabric/material.
Part of the new exhibit.
This fluff volcano room purposely lets the fluff move to the corners.
There was a whole section of kids art.
They sent artists to schools to work with groups of kids for a whole semester.
Of all of them, the food was the best!
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