Sensory Strides #47: Steven J. Carroll, All the Worlds of Men, Leap Day Geocaching; Fill the Calendar; Three Dark Crowns; Kendare Blake; Opalescence; Ray Rayborne

Quote “It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.” ― Steven J. Carroll, from All the Worlds of Men

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Woke up with a text from my mom last week reminding me I needed to go get a geocache that day.  It took me about a half hour before I realized it was leap day.  Geocachers play all sorts of games with their caches, one of which is Fill the Calendar.  The goal is to find a cache on every day of the year – not necessarily all in the same year, but each date you would have found a cache.  Well – leap year only happens once every four years so if you miss it, you can’t complete the challenge for another four years (although I am pretty sure my mom and I found a cache together last leap year).  I’m not big on the stats games, but I did make sure to head out and find a cache on leap day anyway!

I’ve gotten into young adult fantasy the last few weeks.  It started because those are usually easily available on the Libby app through the library for ebooks.

Some of the books have been very strange and others I couldn’t put down.  Many of the books I choose were series so if I liked them I would have additional books to read.  I also tried to make sure they were books where the series was fully released.  Nothing like reading a series and then having to wait years for the sequel – I never remember what the original book was about.

I will be reading the next in the series for Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake.  I’m not sure how I actually feel about the story, but I know I couldn’t put it down and I want to see what happens in book 2.

I also read Opalescence by Ron Rayborne.  Although this one is not a series, I would definitely not have read the next if it was.  I expect there are a lot of people out there that would appreciate the descriptions Mr Rayborne shares of his prehistoric Earth, but I am not a biologist and there was too many in depth descriptions of plants and animals for me.  If you like colorful descriptions that allow your imagination to picture something you haven’t seen, this could be the book for you.  I loved the concept of the book, but the reality wasn’t for me.

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