Protest in Hollister, CA

 I shot this video of the "No Kings" protest in front of Safeway:

And some pictures:

The protest began at noon. Protestors parked in the empty Kmart parking lot a block away. People were on the sidewalk in front of the store, as well as at the Chevron station across the street Safeway, and  one more in front of the soon-to-be-closed Rite Aid, another block way. 

I almost didn't want to go near the protest, but earlier I'd gone to the library and drove home just to see the crowds. My mom wanted to see the protest, so we went down. I rarely go to things like this because I usually hate crowds. But today was different.

Friday the 13th!

Yes, it's today, the only such occurrence this year. Here are some things about the number 13 I posted a year ago this week.

Book Discussion: Deciding What to Read and When

The topic for this post is how do you decide what to read and when, whether you are reading from home or borrowing from the library or from other people? 

For me, it all depends on what I have on hand that will meet my monthly writing prompts, and it seems that most of the time the books I have at home (so many I've had for so many years!) don't seem to fit, so I have to find something at the library for the prompt. Thus many of the ones at go unread indefinitely. I was glad that I had a book set in the 1940s that I was able to use for the Decades Challenge in May. It also worked for the Color Coded challenge, for the color blue.

When I'm taking books out of the library, I tend to take five or more at a time. I then take a while to decide what to read first. I often arrange the books in an order that I think I may read them in, but it doesn't always work out that way. Same is true when I'm reading from a stash at home. 

What are some of the ways that you approach this decision?

June Bookish Bingo

 Here is the new card for June.

My Books:

1. Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems--Francisco X. Alarcon (2 squares): Audiobook, Reading Challenge
2. The Diary of a Goose Girl--Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (3 squares): E-Book, Father, Body of Water
3. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books--Kirsten Miller (5 squares): Free Book, Physical Book, Not in a Series, Book Club Read, Free Space
4. Cloud Atlas--David Mitchell (4 squares): Shelf Love, Travel, Across the Years, Solving a Mystery
5. Fingersmith--Sarah Waters (2 squares): LGBTQ, Bride
6. The Devil's Highway--Luis Alberto Urrea (3 squares): Library Book, On the Run, Bully
7. The Beach House--Rachel Hanna (2 squares): In a Series, Trope-y Title
8. The Mermaid--Jan Brett (2 squares): Mermaid, Fairy/Fae