Readers’ Workouts – 7/11

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I made my step goal this week, just barely.   This week: Tuesday - Walk with the dog Wednesday - Pilates Thursday - Spinning (with video), Walk with dog Saturday - Walk with the dog Sunday - Walk A couple photos from our walk on Tuesday. It wasn't a bad way to spend the 4th. Meal ideas: This week is VBS at our church, which means easy grab-and-go dinners. Then Friday night we're headed to the lake for the weekend, so probably more cookout food or things that are easy to make for a group. Sandwiches Pepperoni Rolls Pulled pork pockets Spaghetti Hamburgers Year Fitness Goals: - Lose weight. Goal - Lose 26 lbs. - Run 2 5ks, 1 10K and 1 half. Completed - 1 10K; 1 5K - Hit my weekly step goal (56,000 steps) for 48 weeks. Weeks completed: 22 How was your week? Readers’ Workouts is hosted by Joy at Joy’s Book Blog....
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Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

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Six Wakes is one I picked up based on the blurb - a locked-room mystery in space, a sci-fi mystery. The sci-fi hook this time around was cloning. The laws around cloning are strict, but basically, we have figured out how to make mindmaps, putting all of a person's memories, thoughts, personalities into a code that can be transferred into that person's cloned body, making an individual practically immortal and able to inherit their own belongings/money. There's some philosophical discussion about what makes a person a person, what is a soul, etc., but it's not really dealt with in depth. The mystery set up is great. Six people wake up in fresh clone bodies, with the clear evidence that their previous bodies had been murdered, obviously by one of them, since everyone else on the generational ship is in "storage." One or more of them is the killer, but no one knows who - their memories from the last 25 years have...
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Thursday’s Tale: Hercules and the Waggoner

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I decided to share another of Aesop's fables today. I always equate Aesop with talking animals, but this time around we've got one about the gods interacting with humans. A Waggoner was once driving a heavy load along a very muddy  way. At last he came to a part of the road where the wheels sank  half-way into the mire, and the more the horses pulled, the deeper the wheels sank. So the Waggoner threw down his whip, and knelt  down and prayed to Hercules the Strong. "O Hercules, help me in this my hour of distress." But Hercules appeared to him, and said: "Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel." The moral, of course, is that the gods help those who help themselves. On a side note, it's funny how much different illustrations for "baby" books look today. They are so much simpler and cleaner. The colors tend to be brighter, too, I think. Thursday's Tales is a weekly...
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The Invisible Woman by Rachel Stuhler

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The women of Geek Actually are all going through tough times in Episode #2. The episode started with a bit of their group chat and to be honest I wasn't a fan of that style. I was happy the author went back to a regular narration quickly. Taneesha is still not being appreciated at her new company. I'm hoping she moves on soon. She is worth way more than they're giving her credit for. We're finally really meeting Christina and I'm not sure what to think of her yet. I think the new actress on set, Vivi, is definitely bad news for her, even if she's fun for the time being. Michelle's husband is officially out of the house, but she really is does spend too much of her energy on work and not enough on relationships. This is the second episode with a bit of a steamy section. Even though they're geeks, these women are pretty, smart and sexy. They may...
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The Mid-Year Freakout Book Tag

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Thanks to Maureen at Maureen's Books for tagging me for The Mid-Year Freakout Book Tag. If you get a chance, go visit her. 1 - The Best Book You've Read So Far In 2017 The best book I’ve read so far this year is probably The End of the Day by Claire North. I loved Charlie, the Harbinger of Death, and enjoyed tagging along with him. And hated tagging along with him, because sometimes it's a really tough job, but not for the reasons you would think. 2 - Your Favorite Sequel This Year My favorite sequel I read this year so far is Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley. The world of the Checquy files is an interesting mix of fantasy, "science," and bureaucracy. In this sequel, age-old enemies are being forced to work together. 3 - A New Release You Haven't Read But Really Want To I haven't read City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett. I have copy, but it's the last of the trilogy...
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