4 December: more reading

Sunday, 4 December 2022

at home

I finished reading the fascinating and terrifying A Deadly Wind, which has been my bedtime chapter book this past week.

If we had a storm like that here (which it seemed to somewhat bypass), my double wide and other single and double manufactured homes all over the peninsula would surely be blown to bits. It is a comfort that, before we moved to this house, it survived the 2007 storm.

The human fatalities were tragic, often caused by falling trees or by heart attacks while cleaning up debris. I think my gardening friends will be interested in the impact on city parks, in Vancouver, B.C….

…Portland and Corvallis, Oregon…

…and Tacoma, Washington.

I have a craving for more diary memoirs but the second volume of the David Sedaris diaries is still in transit. Fortunately, I had a book by a favorite author, Julia Glass.

The very first paragraph thrilled me, followed by two more paragraphs about what it is like to live on a town like the ones on the peninsula where we live.

The annual patriotic parade:

The story, set ten years in our future in an increasingly warm and warring world, is told from several points of view, including a young man who has returned home after being traumatized by a terrorist bombing in New York and taken on a job as a landscaping helper.

I was chilled by the description by a character who spent some time in Michigan of how climate change was resulting in no fruit. We had a precursor of this with no apples this year and very few blueberries at a usually prolific blueberry farm.

By bedtime, I was 1/3 of the way through this perfect book for me. Regrettably, fine weather would drag me outdoors and postpone another full day of reading.