January 15, 2025
All those New Year resolutions and good intentions!
Walks: We led members of the Albuquerque Chapter of American Pilgrims on the Camino on a trek along the Rio Grande Bosque on New Year’s Day.
Reading: First, not exactly reading, we indulged in Netflix’s gripping One Hundred Years of Solitude, based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel.
Our reading has included books by three New Mexico authors, starting with Hampton Sides’ fascinating and much honored The Wide Wide Sea centered on the third and final journey of Captain Cook. I am impressed with the way Sides holds the readers’ interest by telling a complex story through short passages and vignettes without overwhelming us with his research.
We’ve also read Rebecca Reynolds’s Thresholds of Change, which we will share with our little EAR (Elder Activist Readers) book group, and we have enjoyed our friend Rosalie Rayburn’s third book in her Digger Doyle Mystery series: Windswept, set in beautifully depicted New Mexico landscapes.
| Writing: Kent is writing and expanding on more stories, some left out of We Ran Away to Sea, and some new ones. Here is the beginning of one: |
| A Shortcut and a Close Shave Shortcuts can save time and effort, but sometimes there are unexpected complications. Sailing to the Atlantic side of Florida from Ft. Myers on the Gulf Coast requires a long trip, but… Read more … |
Book News
| Shortly after we learned that We Ran Away to Sea was a finalist for the Global Book Awards, we received notification that the book had won a Silver Medal in the category of Biography/Memoir. There are still more award announcements awaiting in the next few months. I expressed my reservations about awards, still it is nice to be noticed and to learn that someone (beisdes our friends and family) thinks highly of the book. See Kent in a short video: Are Book Awards Scams? Please check out our blog jacanapress.com for more stories and updates. |
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