1	Things You Kiss Goodbye, The	Leslie Connor	Just when I thought I “got” the author.  While not as good as the other 3 books, I still had to finish this one.
2	Pachinko	Min Jin Lee	500 pages of good, yet not uplifting storytelling, of 5 generations of a Korean family, mostly in Japan.
3	Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell, #6), An	Deanna Raybourn	Brilliant vocab;
4	Hench	Natalie Zina Walschots	Even Villians need secretaries, and an Excel spreadsheet and a brilliant hench may discover the gray area between heroes and villians.  Kyla and I each give it a thumb up.
5	In A Glass Grimmly	Adam Gidwitz	Funny and twisted, fitting sequel.
6	When Stars are Scattered	Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed	Graphic Novel of a Kenyan Refuggee camp, orphaned Somalian children on own, true story
7	Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America	Ijeoma Oluo	Oh, oh, hard truths about being white.  It takes a brave white man to read this…but it takes a brave black woman to live this.
8	Just Us	Claudia Rankine	A perfect reading complement to Mediocre.  Ouch, I need to rethink why I dye my hair.  And more signficant topics, of course.
9	Invisible Life of Addie LeRue	Victoria Schwab	Even stones….  Wow, blown away by clever take “making a deal with the devil”.  Want to talk about the love “love” story…. A book I want everyone to experience. Kyla agrees.
10	The Uglies	Scott Westerfeld	Ended on a cliff hanger and no desire to read 2nd book.
11	Out of My Mind	Sharon Draper	A girls with cerebral palsey goes from inside her bright head to sharing herself more with a talking device–and the pain that can involve with her “normal” peers.  A “social justice” book for school–devastating consequences.
12	Joy at Work	Marie Kondo	Spark Joy at work?  Fine.  I do love a tidy place.

Papa has introduced Wes to Star Wars and finally Wes is hooked. So his latest blanket fort is really a TIE fighter, complete with Nerf machine gun and hidden weapons cache.

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Then he takes a break and makes Kyla’s life harder. His work here is done.

Piper swiped Kyla’s umbrella again, but this time for a good cause.

Both Dwayne and I crushed on Ernie the Grumpy Gargoyle when we first laid eyes on him earlier this month. I brought him home yesterday to the newly completed pedestal.

Timmy Whitefoot is very suspicious of this new could-be-cat.

I think there’s a resemblance!