This is my #FridayReads and Dewey RAT TBR pile in one single post. 

My base library re-opened their curbside service this week - just on two days, but it is so easy to email them a list of items wanted and get a bag of books in return. So all but one is from my libraries. I am a bit behind on the Library Love challenge since my library was closed, so I am making up some ground there as well. 

I know these seem like heavy topics to read in 24 hours, but my mind is actually soothed by reading something heavy and it not be any COVID-19 or politics. It's really engrossing to learn about other periods of crisis, disaster, strife and see people come out the other side - changed for sure but it is in a way hopeful?

For Friday, I want to finish Pox. I have one chapter and the epilogue left to get through.

For Dewey RAT and Sunday: 

1. Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis/Suez and the Brink of War by David A. Nichols - this is for S&L 2020 and from my own shelf.

2. An American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby - a nice follow up after finishing Pox. 

3. Minority Leader: How to Lead From the Outside and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams - hoping I can come away with a few tips to make my volunteering activities more impactful.

4. Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed - and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbal and Roger G. Charies - did you know earlier this week was the 25th anniversary of this bombing? At the same time we are having armed demonstrations at state capitols no less. History you bitch.

5. War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow - another book that has been sitting on my wish list to read. There's no time like the present, eh?

6. Beauty Queens by Libby Bray - listening to this on audiobook that I downloaded from my local library's OverDrive. My IRL book club is meeting Monday night to discuss it. I am just not in the mood to read a fluffy book, so I hope to get through it via my ears while I do some cross stitching, coloring, or playing Star Dew Valley. 

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I loved the Disney channel Zenon movies growing up and had no idea they were based on a children's book. I stumbled across this book at the library when searching the catalog to see if they had any of the movies (they don't... sigh).

This was a very cute book. The movie strays quite a bit, but the general story is there. Zenon starts out as quite a trouble-maker who is then sent to Earth for the summer. While there, she changes quite a bit and learns to appreciate different things. I was unsure how I felt about these changes (it would have been fine if she still liked her music), but I did like the ending.

The illustrations were also great. Wonderful detail and use of color. A splendid throwback that is still fun to read to this day.

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With the drop of a judge’s gavel, Walt Walker has finally lost everything. The badge and gun he used to carry and the moral certainty of right and wrong, good and evil that used to keep him grounded. Now Walt, sans gun, gets his badges from an Army Navy store. He spends his days in South Florida, working for a boutique insurance firm as their investigator. He spends his nights in dive bars, trying to forget the mess he has made of his life.

Ronald Jacobs always preferred the title Human Resource Manger to Hitman. But now that he's retired, he can concentrate on living in the shadows as a respectable gentlemen farmer. Far from the reach and pull of his past life.

Their transgressions are behind them but a chance encounter and a failed assassination attempt sets the two of them on a collision course of violence and retribution. Hunted by contract killers, the law, and corporate bag men, they are pursued across the unforgiving adobes and the sweeping vistas of the Mesa Valley in Western Colorado.

Survival means putting their past in front of them and their differences aside, because in this world the only thing that matters is to cast not others on the devil’s side of heaven, lest you be cast in with them.