Finished reading: Starter Villain by John Scalzi šŸ“š. This is a fun read. John Scalzi writes the best dialog.

Finished reading: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor šŸ“š. I don’t normally like care for time travel stories, but this one is alright. I don’t think I will follow up with the rest of the series, however.

Finished listening to The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna šŸ“ššŸ”Š This is one of the coziest books I’ve happened upon in a long time. I recommend it. Samara MacLaren’s narration was a treat.

Finished reading: The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis šŸ“š This is a nice piece of historical fiction about books and libraries.

Finished listening to: A Fistful of Charms (The Hollows, #4) by Kim Harrison šŸ“š. I give up on most book series after two or three installments, but this urban fantasy series still has my interest. It helps that my library has the entire series via Libby.

Red-winged blackbirds returned to our feeders today. Iā€™d better stock up on sunflower seeds.

It took three separate parts orders and some creative modifications, but our thirty-year-old clothes dryer no longer sounds like an elementary school heavy metal band.

Finished reading: I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong šŸ“š This is an excellent book by one of the best science journalists around. It concerns the closer than intimate relationship of plants and animals with their microorganisms. Bacteria are not just in us and on us; in a lot of respects they are us.

It is one of those gray winter mornings where I can’t tell where the earth ends and the sky begins.

It’s -22Ā° F at our place this morning. That’s the coldest we can remember.

Snowy day