July in Books

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This was an unusual month for me. I got caught up in a the series about Frieda Klein, read all 8 books from the series and as an added bonus, completed House of Correction by the same authors. Nicci Gerrard and Sean French write together under the name Nicci French.

I feel it’s mostly pointless order these books from best to worst, especially when read like that one after the other, they all felt very similar.

Blue Monday, Tuesday’s Gone, and Waiting for Wednesday felt long for my taste but were otherwise great books. House of Corrections (the only one that was not from a series) was a slow start and the settings were static by design, which likely makes it the worst of the 9. Apart from that, all 9 books were solid 4/5 or 5/5, and if there was a 9th book about Frieda Klein, I’d buy it without thinking.

I own one more book by Nicci French but decided to switch back to Fantasy and Sci-Fi for August. I am currently reading a very long and famous book.

Rose hips

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Sofia is full of fruit trees and shrubs. When I was a kid, people used to pick the fruit. I remember walking for kilometers to find plums that hadn’t already been picked by other kids. We ate them while they were still green.

Rose hips can be used to make jam, although this has fallen out of fashion over the years.

There’s no cat in this photo.

What would you do?

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A single baby shoe on the sidewalk.

I’ve been the parent searching for the tiny shoe in the past. I think the best strategy when seeing a tiny shoe is to not touch it, it increases the chance that it’s found compared to if you put it on a visible place. I’ve managed to find the lost shoe several hours after it was lost but this one time a Good Samaritan put it on top of an anti-parking bollard – I had to walk back and forth to the store two or three times because I didn’t expect it to be there.

While wondering what to do, a mom showed up and found it.

Ducks refuse to stay in a row

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I have this strange goal to take a photo of ducks in a row. They’ve been refusing to do that for me.

I saw maybe 20-ish young ducks grouped together, almost forming a row, but the combination of light, phone camera, and my photography skill level produced an image of Nessie.