Yay Marg! I will stop by your site to see what you’ve picked. Making the list seems half the fun. Though it’s hard to cut a long list of books to make it more doable. Cheers. Happy reading.

Hi Rachel, that’s wonderful to hear your LA library story — it is a great place! And their digital collection seems top-notch. Good to know you have various library memberships as well. Audios can be expensive, so it is a real gift to have good libraries despite the current WH occupant trying to defund them. Ugh.
I’m glad you liked Heartwood and I’m looking forward to it. I liked her earlier novel Sea Wife so I’m hoping for good things. Once I get done with May reads, I want to jump on my summer list!
Hope all is well there. Enjoy your garden & books!

Thanks Cindy, yeah I don’t normally read much nonfiction but I’m glad I put these two on my list. I look forward to seeing your summer list and will stop by soon. Cheers!

First ten will be up tomorrow!

I read *listened to* Heartwood. I’m interested to hear your thoughts. I’m also eyeing that Taylor Jenkins Reid you mentioned in your newer post. Tilt sounds really good, too. Hope you get to all on your list and you enjoy them!

Lucky you!! I did see some (two) in the far distance when we were on Vancouver Island. I took a tour boat out from Telegraph Cove and we saw dozens of humpbacks, but only a pair of orcas. Fun times!

That’s so cool Lesley. I would love to see the whole migration of the gray whales. And the resident grays. You have it great right in your area. So envious! How wonderful to watch & see them all the time.
I remember one summer day years ago I went on a whale watching boat in the Puget Sound north of Seattle. I was lucky to be on the boat the day in which we saw three pods of Orcas converge and it was unbelievable to see that many at once and so active. It was like a frenzy. So glad I didn’t fall overboard! The boat operators said it was so rare to see. If I ever go back, I’ll do that again.

I’ll bet that was a thrill to see the blue whales! None here that I know of, just grays. We also get the occasional pod of orcas, but I have yet to see any of those! The following is from our local state park website:

In the winter we watch thousands of gray whales from mid-December through mid-January as they travel south to the warm lagoons of Baja Mexico.

Spring watching begins in late March as the gray whales travel north on their way towards Alaska. The first surge swims past Oregon around the end of March, and we watch the north-bound whales all the way until June.

Summer and Fall bring Oregon’s resident Gray whales close to shore to feed. These are the approximately 200 whales that remain in Oregon’s coastal waters during the summer migration. The central coast in particular is a hot-spot for whales from June to mid-November.

That’s great to hear. Yes some of these small libraries don’t have the inventory that the big city libraries have. So it’s good you were able to pay for a Houston card then.
And I’m glad you talked about the Houston Library and its library pass. I had never heard about nonresident library memberships before you posted that. It’s a good service and it really helped me for 2 or 3 years there. I’m sad to hear they are discontinuing it, but I’m glad to have found another. What a relief.