Memorial for rosalita

We have unexpected lost one of our own.
rosalita (Julia) has died and she was planning to join us again in the challenge to read our ROOTS.

I would love to see us pay tribute to her by reading a book from her TBR list. Her To Read collection has a list of 1,044 books. I'm sure that we can find a book to read in her honor.

I am creating a ticker here for us. Last year her goal was 48 ROOTS - I will round this goal to 50.

Here is a link to rosalita's list to save time.
https://www.librarything.com/catalog/rosalita/toread

Please let us know if you read a book for her. Don't count it told your goal, put it toward hers.

Nina created a wiki for us!
https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Rosalita%27s_memorial_wiki_2024#.E2.9C.8...



1. Captains Courageous - EGBERTINA
2. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club- ritacate
3. Ella Minnow Pea - detailmuse, alcottacres
4. De vervlogen helft (Vanishing Half - connie53
5. The Reluctant Widow - fuzzi
6. The woman in white - MissWatson
7. Silver in the Wood. - Silverwolf28
8. The Call of Cthulhu - mstrust
9. Pickman's Model. - mstrust
10. Dead Man's Folly - cyderry
11. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - fuzzi
12. Winnie-the Pooh - cyderry
13. Bluebeard's Egg - cecilturtle
14. Right Ho, Jeeves - cbl_tn
15. The Heist - nebula21
16. Tales from the Folly - quondame
17. The Backworlds - alcottacre
18. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - laytonwoman3rd
19. The Call of Cthulhu, Pickman's Model - mstrust
20. The Thing on the Doorstep - mstrust
21. The Soulmate - SandyAMcPherson
22. ForKicks - FAMeulstee
23. Childhood's End -atozgrl
24. Under the Whispering Door - curioussquared
25. Crooked House - si
26. Conversations with Friends - helenliz
27. The Fourth Wing - humouress
28. Spring - HelenBaker
29. The Ferryman - drneutron
30. The Lincoln Highway - Robertgreaves
31. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd -clue
32. Chicago Poems - lindapanzo
33. Homage to Catalonia - rocketjk
34. The Music of Erich Zahn - mstrust
35. Da Vinci Code - cbl_tn
36. Goodbye Without Leaving - katiekrug
37. Later - enemyanniemae
38. John Adams - kac522
39. The Stolen Crown: The Secret Marriage that Forever Changed the Fate of England - cyderry
40. Corelli's Mandolin - laytonwoman3rd
41. Post Captain - MissWatson
42. Home - cbl_tn
43. Under Orders - clue
44. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race - KWharton
45. In Farleigh Field - sallylou61
46. Out Stealing Horses - FAMeulstee
47. A Monster Calls - humouress
48. And Then There Were None - Ann_R
49. The English Girl - HelenBaker
50. The Word Is Murder - cbl_tn
51. The Things We Wish Were True - wandaly
52. To Sir Phillip With Love - humouress
53. When He was Wicked - humouress
54. Where You Once Belonged - laytonwoman3rd

>1 cyderry: I love this idea.

This is such a great idea. I will look through her books and pick one to read ❤️

This is a great idea!! Thanks Cheli.

It looks like I own at least a half dozen books on her TBR list so I'll pick one of those.

I met her at an LT meet up at Mark’s house about 10 years ago and enjoyed talking with her.

Just couldn’t believe this news.

I've identified 18 books in Julia's "To Read" collection that are in my "To Read" collection--a couple I was planning to get to this year anyway. So I am in good shape, and hope to read at least 2 or 3.

And I might re-read The Woman in White, since I know she was thinking about reading that one.

Captains Courageous
15 JAN 2024

finished

I'm so sorry to hear of her passing. She was always nice. I'll see what I have from her listing.
ETA: I went to her 5 star reads. I believe I have Plainsong.

I've got a copy of Childhood's End, so I think I will try to read that, when I can find a spot to fit it in. There are some others on her list that I have and may also try to read later in the year.

I am currently reading a book from her TBR list, The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch

I will read Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club. It's set in outstate Minnesota where I live (aka NOT Minneapolis/ St Paul!). I am near Lake Superior and have good friends who live in the Lakeside neighborhood (not the actual setting of the book) and whose father actually ran a restaurant, so this seems a perfect choice to honor her.
Thank you for this beautiful idea. Just before reading this I was contemplating my desire to finish my projects before it's too late.

I'm in too, and reading Trots en vooroordeel but now I'm thinking she already might have read that one.

And I was right. But I found one on her TBR that's also on my TBR and will not count as a ROOT for me.

De vervlogen helft by Britt Bennett. So I will start that one today.

My list of three books that both of us had on our To Read list:

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer

ETA one more:

Geno: In Pursuit of Perfection by Geno Auriemma

That book by Pip Williams was real good to read, Fuz.

>14 connie53: thanks! It was recommended to me by witchyrichy.

I was just on the hunt for Bleeding Heart Yard and there it was on her list. So I've reserved it at the library - should be able to pick it up tomorrow!

I have picked Tales from the Folly.

Here is a link to rosalita's list to save time.

I'll read Four Thousand Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman, which I have in audio.

I will finally complete Moby-Dick and add From the mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

I'm thinking I'll read Under the Whispering Door or Song of Achilles.

While I thought I'd read the short story collection inspired by Edward Hopper's art, In Sunlight or in Shadows, I think I will read the Carl Sandburg poetry collection Chicago Poems.

>17 quondame: thank you!

I've decided on Uncle Tom's Cabin, a classic I should have read years ago.

I'll read The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict.

>17 quondame: thanks for the link. I was so sorry to read on Mark's thread about Julia. I am sure she seems far too young....
I will look for one of her reads.

ETA: I have always wanted to read Hidden Valley Road: Inside the mind of an American family, so this may be the time.

I have dozens of books that are on Julia's TBR, and I can't make up my mind...but I will get to some of them.

I am so shocked and saddened by this news. I have several books from Julia's TBRs in my TBRs and I've made a list of several to try to read this year. One that was already on my list for a challenge later in the year is Home by Marilynne Robinson. It's set in Iowa, where Julia lived. I think Julia's Kitchen Wisdom is also a must-read.

Julia and I have 765 books in common in our catalogs.

In honor of our shared love of detective stories, I will read Crime Beat.

What a lovely memorial! I will read Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn.

I just finished Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club from rosalita's To Read list, for her ROOT ticker. I had never heard of this author and thoroughly enjoyed a read set in my home state. There's a little thrill every time he talked about the many places I know. He also captured the feeling of Up North very well.

I've selected a few:

Catching Fire
Dead Man's Folly✅
The Guns of August
The stolen crown : the secret marriage that forever changed the fate of England✅
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture
Still Life with Murder
Winnie-the-Pooh✅

I haven't managed to go all the way through Julia's to read list there, but I did spot The Bullet That Missed. I hope to get that from the library this year, so will contribute it to the total. I'll check through the rest of the list later and see if there are any others that I could read.

I love this idea, and I can't help feeling that Julia would have been really chuffed at the thought of it.

OK, I've checked the rest of the list. I saw quite a few I've already read, and several which would still be ROOTs for me; however I will also try to read Longitude (my husband has a copy of this, I think), and when I need a light read I will try to also get to Winnie the Pooh. Neither of these will be ROOTs for me, so I'll be glad to contribute to Julia's total.

I'm going to read Silver in the Wood.

I'm going to read The Institute by Stephen King.

What a nice thing to do. I went through Rosalita's TBR-list and there were a lot of books I have already read, even more I want to read, and some which are waiting patiently on my shelves:

Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
Hilary Mantel: Bring up the bodies
William Styron: Sophie's Choice
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I'll read one of them eventually.

I have finished Ella Minnow Pea, an apt fable for today's worrisome move toward censorship and authoritarian politics. I did not adjust the ticker.

>37 detailmuse: I really enjoyed that when I read it, many years ago in my book group.

>38 Jackie_K: It was clever! I wonder what prompted him to write it decades ago...certainly is relevant now.

I finally found one on the list that I can actually get my hands on, The Backworlds by M. Pax. I also need to track down my copy of Ella Minnow Pea and re-read that one.

Thank you for setting up this thread, Cheli!

I checked Julia's TBR list against my catalog, and found a lot of books I want to read sooner rather than later. Some of them have been languishing on my shelves for years. I'll see how many of them I can finish in the coming year.

News of the World
The Mirror and the Light
Gap Creek
Stoner
Hamnet
Inland
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead✅ Finished 2-18-24
His Bloody Project
Where You Once Belonged ✅ Finished 6-24-24
PrairyErth
A Passage to India (would be a re-read, but it's been 40+ years)
Corelli's Mandolin ✅ Finished 4-14-24

Hello all - I found this memorial for my old friend Julia and wanted to tell you all that it brought me to tears. Julia and I had been IRL friends since about 1994 and she often tried to get me to switch to LibraryThing from my corporate-owned book cataloguing platform. I wish I had done it before now, when it will be in memory of rosalita instead of along with her. I have been listening to lots of Bruce Springsteen in her honor - and now will also choose some of her to-be-read list for my 2024 reading. I love seeing this vibrant community that she was a part of and so loved. Cat

>42 CatInIowa: Cat, I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope you find comfort from being here. Although we had never met Julia, there are many of us from round the world who loved 'chatting' with her here on LT, and enjoyed her posts. You are lucky indeed to have known her for so long.

>42 CatInIowa: Thank you for sharing your connection with Julia. She was loved by many here, and we feel her absence. I hope you will feel like you are among friends here, and that it will be a comfort to you in your grief.

>42 CatInIowa: So glad you found us!

>42 CatInIowa: welcome. You're among friends here.

>42 CatInIowa: I'm so sorry for your loss. Julia was a treasure.

>42 CatInIowa: Welcome Cat, I hope you will find some solace here. We all loved Julia and miss her a lot. It was always a joy to read her posts.

>42 CatInIowa: I am so sorry for your loss, Cat. I got a chance to meet Julia a couple of times in real life - we went to the 75ers annual Joplin meet up - and enjoyed her company there as well as on LT.

On another note, I found my copy of Ella Minnow Pea so I will be reading both it and The Backworlds in tribute to Julia.

>42 CatInIowa: Thank you for sharing your memories. I enjoyed her posts so much and would have liked to know her better.

Greetings, all. I somehow just noticed this thread, and I think it's a wonderful idea. I mentioned this on her own thread right after we learned of her passing, but two days before that I had put a book in the mail to her. It was a collection of YA short stories about sports that I'd read, enjoyed and reviewed. When Julia came on to say it looked like fun, I offered to send it to her, and she sent me her mailing address via PM. Of course, it took me a week or so to get around to putting the book in the mail, a fact I now regret.

I decided to choose a book from the 137 that we shared in our LT libraries. I used a random selection website, which provided the number 21. The twenty-first book on our "shared" list is Homage to Catalonia, which I've always meant to read but haven't. So thanks, Julia, for reminding me to read Orwell's famous memoir of the Spanish Civil War.

Public Service Announcement - Friends of Julia

Information on a Celebration of Life for Julia (rosalita) is here: https://international.uiowa.edu/news/2024/02/memory-julia-labua.

It includes a link to register, if you'd like to receive the Zoom link to attend virtually.

>52 katiekrug: Thank you, Katie. I had been checking the web for an obituary, or even an announcement on the University's site, but had sort of given up.

I finished De vervlogen helft by Brit Bennett for Rosalita.

I have chosen Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood for Rosalita. This thread is a wonderful way for this group to pay tribute.

>10 ritacate: Hi, there. I was wondering if you would mind if I read Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club in honor of rosalita, as well, being as you’ve already read it. I’ve had it on my TBR for a while, and my library copy is in. I’ll read it anyway, but would like to read it in memory of Julia. We only ever had a few brief online exchanges here on LT, but she was just that kind of person—I felt like I’d known her forever.

I just registered for her memorial service—it’s tomorrow at noon, Central.

Karen O

>56 klobrien2: more than one person can read a book in Julia's place.

My book club is reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles for March. I will think of rosalita while I'm reading it

I finished The Reluctant Widow yesterday. Tonight I'll start the second book I've chosen for this memorial, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg.

I'm going to dive into the Lovecraft stories she listed.

I've started to read The Heist by Janet Evanovich off the list.

I'm planning to read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, but will not get to it this month.

>62 sallylou61: I loved that book. So much so that I'm reading How to Read Novels Like a Professor from the same author. Going through Julia's list reminded me that I had it in my library.

I read Silver in the Wood.

This is all so incredibly sad. :(

I really like your idea though, Cheli. This is a great way to honor Julia. She was a great woman, and definitely deserves it.

I'll take on Doctor Sleep as long as no one else planning on it.

I saw The woman in white on her list and it fits nicely with my Wilkie Collins bicentenary challenge. The book was a little different from what I remembered, but still quite the page turner.

>66 MissWatson: Did you finish it already?

>67 cyderry: Yes, on Thursday night.

I've read The Call of Cthulhu and Pickman's Model. I'll continue with The Thing on the Doorstep.

I finished reading From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg. It was just okay.

Finished my first Julia book - Dead Man's Folly

Julia and I both had Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood as a ROOT.
I'm grateful to her for having read it - it's been in my library since 2010.

I read Right Ho, Jeeves from Julia's list. I decided to listen to the audio version from the public library's Overdrive even though the ebook version is in my collection.

>1 cyderry: is this a year-long challenge?

>74 fuzzi: yes, we have all year!

Am I wrong in believing that a book read for Rosalita, can't count for your own ROOT total?

>76 connie53: I don't see the point of a rule like that. It doesn't take anything away from the memorial intent of choosing a particular book if you also count it in your own totals. I count any book I read in all categories it fits in.

I have started reading Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and I think I'm going to enjoy it very much.

>77 laytonwoman3rd: I think the intent is to only count a book once in the grand "ROOTS" total. If it is counted as read for Rosalita (and added to her ticker) AND by the actual reader (and added to that person's ticker), then it gets counted twice in the overall ROOTs total, even though it's only been read once, by one person.

>78 kac522: OK, I didn't realize there was a comprehensive total being kept of ROOTS, as I don't participate generally in that challenge. I take it all back!

>76 connie53: >78 kac522: Kathy is right. If you count a book read for Julia in your totals then we shouldn't count it in her totals too.

Reading a book for Julia is like a gift - you took care of it and gave it to her. I've read 2 books from her TBRs and didn't count them on my totals. If you see that someone else read the same book as you, then it would be okay to count it in for you because the book has already been counted. That's why I'm leaving a list at the top of the thread so you can see what's been read for Julia. It's not to stop you from that reading book, it's just to make it so that book gets counted only once. The first person reading won't count it in their ROOTS but the following reader(s) can.

Does that make sense?

>80 cyderry: Thanks for the list in >1 cyderry:! That's an excellent idea. And I'm glad it's year-long, as I've got a few of hers that I want to read.

>80 cyderry: "Does that make sense?"

My two cents is that everybody should just decide this question for themselves.

In my own case, I chose the book I'm going to read for this tribute from the books on the linked list that Julia and I shared. I'll be reading it now, rather than at some unknown time in the future, for that reason: the desire to read a book that she and I both had on our TBR lists. It's a tribute to her because it is on her TBR list and it is a root for me because it is on my shelf. I hope that's cool with the group. Cheers!

If anyone wants to count the ROOT for themselves, I just need to know so that it's not double counted.

>80 cyderry: yes. Very much.

Are we to do something in rosalita's TBR list to remove or mark it as read?

>85 mstrust: I don't know if we actually can do anything, as surely it's only the account holder who can do that :( We'll just need to remember to check the first post in this thread, so we can see if the book we're proposing to read has already been taken.

>85 mstrust: >86 Jackie_K: We cannot access Julia's file to make any notations that the book has been read that is why I'm trying to keep track of the books in the OP so we know.

Just to be clear, more than one person can read a specific book. It will only be counted once.

ETA - I have contacted the staff here at LT to see if there is any way for us to make a note on Julia's account showing that a ROOT member read the book for her. I'm waiting for an answer.

We could use the List feature to make a list of books read from Julia's TBRs. Anyone can add to lists. We just need to be sure that it's clear that books should be added to the list only after they've been read.

I’ve finished The Heist by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg from the list.

>90 cyderry: That is a great idea. Thanks.

>90 cyderry: great idea!

>90 cyderry: excellent.

I finished Tales from the Folly!

so it looks like there is agreement to add a tag READFORJULIA when you have finished a book for rosalita (Julia).

I agree. Great idea.

I finished The Backworlds by M. Pax today. I wish I could say that it was worth the read, but I ended up giving it 3 stars. Since I was reading it in honor of Julia, I do not begrudge the time.

I have finished Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and tagged it as suggested.

I have just caught up on these messages and although I have just finished Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood, I now realsie that I can't count this in both Rosalita's thread and my own. So I have rethought which books I will read for her. So I will count Cat's Eye in my own thread and have chosen a book off her TBR that is in my library wishlist. I am currently reading Spring by Ali Smith for Julia. I also see that two of my brother's books which he has lent me, are on her TBR, so will hopefully get to both of those in the coming months.

Hello Chèli and all...
I came by for a look at ROOTS today because I followed fuzzi's link from Roni's Decluttering group.

So sad that Julia passed away, especially since I often agreed and enjoyed so many of her posts. I think we had similar reading tastes, because I had many rosalita BB's, most of which I've read now.

My choice is to read Sally Hepworth's book, The Soulmate.
I already have a hold request at our PL, since I enjoyed two of her earlier novels. The Younger Wife was actually one of my "rosalita BB's".

I don't have my own Talk thread this year and I have never joined the ROOTS group, so here's my quandary: Do I sign up for the ROOTS group?

I don't aim to fulfill a ROOTS challenge, so can I simply add my title(s) read to the memorial list? and you (Chèli) will update the ticker?

I've culled my bookshelves thoroughly over the last 3 (pandemic) years ~ having either now read everything or traded the unread TBRs that I owned. There came a point where I was actively avoiding a rather overwhelming (to me) pile.

Pandemic reading had a silver lining because our PL's were closed for so long and I read about 200 of my TBR's. In my personal log (not on LT), I either DNF'd or gave away about 100 books. Being a great fan of our public library and about 70% of my reading now is either PL loans or borrowed from friends.

I starred this topic, so I can follow along with what's happening.

>100 SandyAMcPherson: It is perfectly fine if you want to contribute to remembering Julia. Just let us know when you have read a book and which one so that it can be added to the list.

>101 cyderry: Thanks, I will mention in this thread when I have finished a "READFORJULIA" book.

>100 SandyAMcPherson: so glad you stopped by.

As >101 cyderry: said, you're welcome to post, of course, whether or not you join!

I did not know Rosalita/Julia at all, but she has a lot of great books on her to be read list! I think I would have enjoyed meeting her if I had had the chance.

I will read The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race

For those of you who knew Julia, I am sorry for your loss, and I hope this lovely idea gives you some comfort.

I've read The Call of Cthulhu, Pickman's Model and The Thing on the Doorstep off Julia's list.

>1 cyderry: READFORJULIA ~ please mark my reading a memorial book for rosalita, The Soulmate (by Sally Hepworth). Looks like this is book #19.

Edited to say, thanks ~ it is marked as #21. I'll look through the TBR list again for another title and see if I can contribute again to the Rosalita-read-a-thon.

Because I have fond memories of our shared Dick Francis reads a few years back, I searched Julia's TBR for books by Dick Francis. I did read For Kicks in Dutch translation and tagged it READFORJULIA

I finished my read of Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. I've tagged it READFORJULIA.

I'v tagged my own book read for Julia too. De vervlogen helft All ready mentioned in January. I hope I did it right.

>56 klobrien2: my apologies for a late response. I hope you have read and thoroughly enjoyed Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club also in honor of Julia.

I finished Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune for Julia and will tag it shortly.

>90 cyderry: So I last week I finished Spring by Ali Smith for Julia. Am I understanding correctly that I tag the book in my own library READFOR JULIA ?

>112 HelenBaker: Correct!

>112 HelenBaker:, >113 cyderry:.

I'm glad Helen asked that. Because now I'm sure I did it right.

I have finished Crooked House by Agatha Christie

I have Homage to Catalonia on order from the library.

Great Job, everyone! We're halfway through reading for Julia, should we up the goal?

>117 cyderry: Sure! Why not, I'm enjoying having new lists to prompt my reading mo-jo.

okay, since we are doing so well at reading for Julia, I had an idea. Julia was a member of this group for 5 years - should we try to make her goal 5 times over?

Wouldn't it be cool to read ALL of the "to read"? And I am showing such hubris, because I haven't even finished one book for rosalita yet. But I can see myself proceeding along, picking a new book out from the list as I finish one.

Which brings me to my next item. I saw that Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club was on rosalita's list, but it has been adopted and read already. I'll still read Saturday Night for my own TBR, but I think my next rosalita pick will be Braiding Sweetgrass, if no one else is reading it? I didn't see any indication of that on this thread or on rosalita's list.

Karen O

>120 klobrien2: Reading all 1,044 books seems like quite a formidable challenge. I'm not sure how many people do the ROOT challenge, though I imagine that some other 75ers would join in, too.

>120 klobrien2: If we could count them for our own challenge as well, I don't think it would take very long.

I have Long Way to Texas in my queue next.

>122 handshakes: That's probably true, as I have quite a few of Julia's to-reads on my own TBR shelves. I just don't know how that would work with the stats.

>120 klobrien2: I think that's a real big challenge. I will make sure when I read a book for me, I will check if it's on Julia's list and tag it. I don't think I will read just books that are on Julia's list too.

>125 connie53: That’s a great idea, to check Julia’s TBR when reading any book for myself.

Karen O

I finished Ella Minnow Pea for the Reading for Julia tribute. I realize that this book was already read by another participant, but it is very good and I thought it was high time that I re-read it (I read it last in the early 2000s), especially since it is for Julia.

I listened to Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney.

I have a BB from a couple years ago I wanted to read ~ The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel). This is on rosalita's TBR list so let me know if it is already "taken".

I have a hold request at my local PL anyway, because it's a story that is set not far from Campbell River, where I used to spend my summers as a kid. Simply wanted to let y'all know I am going to read it, even if it doesn't count towards the ReadForJulia total.

>130 SandyAMcPherson: Go for it!

>131 cyderry: 👍

Hello all,

I hope it is okay to drop in here and to share information about a virtual gathering that is being hosted to write an obituary for Julia next weekend.

Cat

Please join us on Saturday March 16th at 3:30 ET/2:30 CT/1:30 MT/12:30 PT for a virtual gathering to share stories and information about our dear Julia LaBua, and to create a crowd-sourced obituary to run in the Quad City Times, the Iowa City Press-Citizen, and her hometown paper, the Monmouth Review Atlas. After Julia's death in January, we (Cat Fribley and Monica Sandschafer) each wanted to find a way to grieve and publicly celebrate Julia's life and we'd love to have your help. We are also hoping to create an in-person opportunity in early summer to gather in Iowa City and to feast together and tell stories of Julia's wit and snark, which are unrivaled. Please feel free to send us information or stories for the obituary if you are unable to join us on the 16th, but we really hope to see you there and to build this remembering of Julia together to share with the rest of the world. Please register at https://forms.gle/RWzgPhP8U4aPpR8c8 and we will send you the Zoom link to join us.

Julia LaBua Obituary Creation Virtual Meeting Registration
Please register here and we will send you a Zoom link for our online gathering to remember Julia and to co-create an obituary to share with the world. We will meet on March 16, 2024 at 3:30 ET/2:30 CT/1:30 MT/12:30 PT and you will receive the Zoom link a few hours beforehand. We look forward to having you join us!

>133 CatInIowa: What a wonderful idea! And what wonderful friends you are.

>119 cyderry: >120 klobrien2: I have a few books which overlap rosalita's so I was going to read one and count it on mine and for her tribute, but I see now why I can't. So now my plan is to meet my personal goal and then read for her. Or read a duplicate.

Question: if we're going for the increased goal, would it be too much work at this point to run her ticker separately from the main ticker? Because if it can be counted for her and for our own goal I think we could reach it (faster). Just a thought.

wiki: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Rosalita%27s_memorial_wiki_2024 (first 600)

That's halfway at the moment. If anyone wants to jump in and help, please do.

>135 humouress: Oh - having said which, I just had another look at the overlap between rosalita's books and mine and I found The Fourth Wing which I read in February. It was not a ROOT for me, being a library book but I suppose I can count it for Julia?

>113 cyderry: So having read and tagged Spring by Ali Smith,READFORJULIA, in February, I don't see it on the list?

I, too, think that the whole of Julia's TBR would be a difficult goal to meet. I can only find 2 others on her list that I could contribute, especially if I am to reach my own goal, which I am already lagging behind on.

>137 HelenBaker: My fault, I haven't been using the tag like I should. I've been updating the list here when readers identify a book read for Julia on this thread. Will have to go back and see if there are others I missed.

>33 Jackie_K: Longitutde is one of my all time fav science books. Sobel excels in telling you the story of time and clocks in a way that is readable and really interesting Her galileos daughter is just as good

I did not know Julia on line but am sorry for her loss. I see emily alone, Ive read O'Nan before, and think this might be a good one to try

I finished Justin Cronin's The Ferryman last weekend. Hadn't heard about this thread until humouress sent me this way over on the 75 Book Challenge. What a great wy to remember and honor Julia.

>33 Jackie_K: Longitutde is one of my all time fav science books. Sobel excels in telling you the story of time and clocks in a way that is readable and really interesting Her galileos daughter is just as good

I did not know Julia on line but am sorry for her loss. I see emily alone, Ive read O'Nan before, and think this might be a good one to try Do you need to have read henry himself first?

COMPLETED The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. Am I right in thinking if we tag a book as READFORJULIA, we should not be counting it as one of our own ROOTs?

My review:
On his release from a reform school after the death of his father Emmett decides to leave Nebraska for California with his little brother Billy to find their mother. First, however, they have to help two absconders from the reform school, Duchess and Woolly, get to New York, where they are hoping to claim and divide Woolly's inheritance.

Great fun, with engaging characters I kept reading to learn more about. Ultimately, the book left me wanting to know what happened next, whether Emmett and Billy made it to California and whether they found their mother.

>142 Robertgreaves: Succinct review and nice that you posted. I find that books which end up *not* addressing the original plotline drive me batty! Was it satisfying for you anyway?
I read A Gentleman in Moscow but for some reason never added it to my book catalogue here. I didn't enjoy the way the story developed but it was also during the pandemic before the vaccines came along, and my reading sensibilities were really affected.

>142 Robertgreaves: correct, we are counting them for Julia.

I thought I had posted this last month but don't see it here...I completed The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. I just tagged it today as READFORJULIA in my library. How do know what books are free to read in her library now?

I've finished a book for Julia (from Julia's TBR list).

Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems.

>145 clue: check out post >17 quondame:

So ... I was a bit bored and I started creating a wiki for this: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Rosalita%27s_memorial_wiki_2024#.E2.9C.8...

(see >135 humouress:)
I'm copying Julia's TBR across 200 books at a time (I'm halfway through) and tidying up as I go (I'm up to J now) but it takes a while (especially if the wiki decides not to save) and it's not my top priority - so if anyone wants to help out, please do! I'd like to copy the ticker across too, but not sure how.

I've noticed that a couple of people (myself included) have looked at the overlap of Julia's books with ours and picked one to read, but they're not on her TBR so the count may be a bit out.

Please mark your book as ✅ read once you've finished it so no-one else picks it since it won't be double counted. If you're currently reading one, you could mark it as 🤓 reading, for the same reason. Just copy and paste. I'm not a wiki expert - I'm learning as I go - just copy formatting from other parts of the wiki or ask for help.

I'm hoping that'll make things easier and everyone can update the wiki.🤗

>148 humouress: Good work, Nina, I followed your progress as soon as I saw you created the wiki page.
If I have some time left I will try to help a bit.

>148 humouress: Thanks, Nina. great idea!

>148 humouress: Oooh...that's a lot of work, and very helpful. Thanks!

>148 humouress: I know that majkia is a whiz with wikis.

>149 FAMeulstee: Thanks Anita. I see that you've been doing some work on it, too.

I noticed you changed the dashes to bullet points. Would you like me to use bullet points instead of dashes as I'm tidying up further along, to save duplication of work, or are you using them as a visual marker for where you've edited to so far? I'm good either way.

>150 cyderry: >151 laytonwoman3rd: Welcome :0)

>152 fuzzi: Hmm; think we can get her to jump in on this, too?

>153 humouress: Like you, I like to work on a project like this, Nina.
You can keep the dashes, as indeed I use the bullet points as visual marker.

I'll do some more in the next two days, and will pick up again just before Easter, as we will be away for a week.

>154 FAMeulstee: You've chosen a big chunk of it to do!

I've copied across the next 200 (so that's 800 done, to somewhere in the Rs) and have tidied down to the Ms for now.

I've finished Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell and added the READFORJULIA tag.

The alphabetical by author wiki list isn't up to the O's yet. I'm afraid I'm not wiki-literate so I'm not sure what action to take over on the wiki thread at this point.

I've also read The Music of Erich Zahn for Julia.

>157 mstrust: Showing my stupidity, here- who/what is the author - A Picnic In Arkham

I get that the phrase is Lovecraft by origin; I get that the book was authored by Lovecraft. I dont understand, the use of the phrase used as an author- with no connect over to lovecraft; all the other alleged books seem to be characters??

Of corse now I messed it up. I combined it with correct spelling/ author

It's a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. I have previously read a few more by the same author for Julia.

>157 mstrust: >156 rocketjk: I've added those to the list on the wiki. The O's are on there but not tidied up yet, so I've just put a ✅ by it at the moment.

I think the list/ ticker count is out; 19) double counts 8) and 9). 5) and 27) don't seem to be on Julia's TBR. I picked mine by looking at the overlap between her books and mine but I must have looked at her whole collection.

ETA: I don't know what to do about the anomalies with regards to putting them on the wiki list. Advice please?

I added Long Way to Texas to the wiki, under Elmer Kelton as a plan to read, and The Reluctant Widow as read. I think I did it correctly (I copied Kipling and edited).

I've finished The Da Vinci Code from Julia's TBRs.

I've copied across down to the W authors and tidied up down to the Rs on the wiki.

ETA: and someone (I think Anita) has gone through and added touchstones for every single book down to the Hs.

Update: I've copied across all the books and tidied up everything except the Ws so far. Please go ahead and use the wiki. Be aware that there are some duplicates on the list (I just copied it as is) so tick off both listings if you read/ are reading one.

I've started listening to the audiobook of John Adams by David McCullough. I "think" I've updated the wiki with the "currently reading" emoji, but I must confess that updating wikis are a complete mystery to me.

>165 kac522: 👍 Looks perfect. I'm learning as I go along, too.

I've just realised that there's a discussion page attached to the wiki so I'm planning to put instructions/ advice on there. Anyone else, of course, can also add helpful hints.

>164 humouress: Yes, I did add the touchstones, and will continue soon.
We could also leave the doubles, so they can be read by two.

>167 FAMeulstee: Thanks. That's a lot of work!

>168 humouress: You are very welcome, Nina!
I can't read much at the moment, so other activities are welcome ;-)

>166 humouress: when I click on the discussion link at the top of the wiki it takes me nowhere, so I came back here.

According to the list of rosalita's To Read books the Elmer Kelton book Long Way to Texas was on her Wishlist, so I'm still planning on reading it.

Considering that the UConn women's team is playing in the NCCA tournament this year, I think I'll make the effort to finally read the autobiography of their head coach. The book is Geno: In Pursuit of Perfection by Geno Auriemma, and was a gift from my sister back in 2011! It is on rosalita's wishlist.

https://www.cbssports.com/womens-college-basketball/news/uconn-vs-usc-march-madn...

I read Goodbye Without Leaving by Laurie Colwin in March and have added it to the wiki.

>170 fuzzi: Oh, sorry. It works for me so I don't know what's happening there. There are only a couple of lines on it at the moment so it might have just looked like a blank page?

Can anyone else see it? If not, I won't bother filling it up :0)

>170 fuzzi:, >173 humouress: FYI: All 3 links at the top of the wiki work for me!

>174 kac522: Thanks, good to know.

>173 humouress: when I click on the third link for the wiki discussion thread (Link to discussion/ talk thread for using this wiki: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Talk:Rosalita%27s_memorial_wiki_2024 or click on 'Discussion' under 'This Page' in the lefthand information bar. )

all I see is this:

Talk Rosalita's memorial wiki 2024

Link back to wiki: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Rosalita%27s_memorial_wiki_2024

Authors are listed alphabetically by last name (except Dan Brown, for some reason). Click on the first letter of the last name in the Contents list to get to that section in this wiki.
Note the buttons at the top of the editing box; they're helpful shortcuts for making text bold, italic etc.

This page was last edited on 29 March 2024, at 11:42.

Is that what you see?

>176 fuzzi: Yes! :0) As I said, I haven't done much with it. I was just going to put in the ways to edit the wiki and any helpful hints I could think of. Anyone else can (please) do that, too.

Maybe we should also include Julia's wishlist?

I read Later by Stephen King for Julia.

I've finished John Adams by David McCullough and have updated the wiki.

Finished Corelli's Mandolin, and tagged it, but I'm not going to try to tinker with the wiki myself.

I have finished Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian, which is on Julia's list, and I have tagged it READFORJULIA, but didn't touch the Wiki in this case, because I was unsure about adding the green checkmark.

>181 laytonwoman3rd: I added your book to the wiki a few days ago.

> 182 I was going to add your book ... but instead I've put in some instructions in the wiki discussion thread https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Talk:Rosalita%27s_memorial_wiki_2024. Could you do me a favour and see if they make sense please and if you can edit the wiki?

>183 humouress: Thank you, I managed to put the green checkmark in the alphabetical list with those tips.
ETA: And I added it to the numerical list for April. Thanks for the help!

>184 MissWatson: Great! Thank you. I'm glad they made sense :0)

ETA: I had a look. Perfectly done.

>183 humouress: Well, a quick look at the list shows the book is in the "Read So Far" section, but not in the alphabetical-by-authors section. That's about all I have the brain space for right now, I'm afraid.

>186 laytonwoman3rd: It's there. (For a moment you had me worried; the wiki doesn't seem to like being edited on weekends so I have to leave it and go back to it during the week and I thought I might have forgotten to do so.) It's under D for De Bernières (per the way Julia's TBR sorts).

ETA: I've set up the 'read so far' list so that (if you put the beginning of a link there and the other end of the link on the author's line) it has clickable links to the alphabetical lists.

>187 humouress: "It's under D for De Bernières " Yeah---I was looking under B. You see what I mean about my brain right now? In a week or so things should settle down a little, and I will try to make sense of the wiki process when I do my next readforJulia.

Would someone please put the symbol that I am planning to read In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen? I tried and failed to do it.

Thanks

Sallylou61

>189 sallylou61: I tried just now but I'm just getting the spinning Captcha wheel when I try to save. That seems to happen on weekends; I suppose it's not back to work yet.

Is that what happened to you when you tried to edit the wiki? (I mean the spinning wheel, not the taking the weekend off 😊)

>189 sallylou61: Done now.

>191 humouress:. Thank you so much. I'm elderly and was having a difficult time with targeting a title in the wiki.

>192 sallylou61: You're welcome :0)

I finished Home by Marilynne Robinson and I've updated the wiki and tagged the book READFORJULIA.

I finished Under Orders by Dick Francis and tagged it READFORJULIA.

I have finished The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race and it was great! Thanks to Julia. I've updated the wiki and tagged it READFORJULIA. The wiki instructions were good, thank you.

I have read In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen and tagged it READFORJULIA.

I have read Paarden stelen (Out Stealing Horses) by Per Petterson and tagged it READFORJULIA

I've read A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd but not tagged it yet. It's really well written and I would recommend it, if you haven't read it yet. Apparently it was made into a film but I wasn't aware of it until I browsed through Julia's TBR.

I've reviewed it on my thread, if you want to know a bit more about this book. It was a 5 star read for me.

ETA1) I forgot, the wikis aren't working today so I'll have to update the memorial wiki later. done

ETA2) Should this replace no. 27 on the list, since The Fourth Wing was in Julia's catalogue but not in her TBR? I think she already read that one.

Update: the wikis are working again.

I have read The English Girl by Daniel Silva and will tag it READFORJULIA.

I've read (actually, listened to) The Word Is Murder and tagged it READFORJULIA.

>204 cbl_tn: Darn! I have that out from the library and am a chapter in :0)

I've added it to the wiki and the list is now up to 50. However, that includes numbers 5 & 27 which are not on Julia's TBR (but are in other collections of hers) and number 19 which is double counted.

We've reached the 50 goal.
Should we try for another 50?

>206 cyderry: Why not?

>206 cyderry: Indeed, yes.

Hi all, I have read several books from Julia's TBR over the last few months but am still not using LibraryThing to catalog (much to her ongoing dismay from the realm beyond, I am guessing), so won't count them here. Mostly I pop over to feel connected to her and to look at her TBR to see if what I am reading was also on her list. :)

A group of us did create an obituary for Julia which is running this weekend in advance of an in-person gathering that we will be holding on June 15th at West Branch Library. Please feel free to reach out for any additional information if you'd like to join us. You can find Julia's (short for print) obituary at https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/qctimes/name/julia-labua-obituary?id=552338... and a much longer remembering of her at 'Remembering Julia LaBua' on Facebook.

I have read the following for Julia so far this year:
Gay, Roxane Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture (Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir) - Reread

This is so thoughtful. I've read a book I'd like to add to the list if we're going for another 50 - I hope we are. Although I wonder if it might be better to increase the goal by ten at a time? The book I read is The Things We Wish Were True by Marybeth Whalen.

>209 CatInIowa: Thank you for sharing the link. I miss Julia a lot here on LT, but so much worse for a RL friend.

I was browsing through the wiki, seeing if there are any books there I'd like to read and found Firefly Summer. On further investigation Julia has already rated it so I had a look at her TBR catalogue and she has already rated 16 books on it. Can we count those as read?

I've read To Sir Phillip With Love by Julia Quinn which, I've just realised, is on the list.

>199 FAMeulstee: Sad news: For those of you who knew Anita, we received the sad news that she passed away this week.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/361457

>214 humouress: Oh this is sad news. she has been such a supportive member of this group.

I've started Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851). It's not going to be an easy read by any means.

>213 humouress: I didn't enjoy To Sir Philip with Love but it was in an omnibus edition from the library which also included When He was Wicked which is also on Julia's list, so I went ahead and read it (otherwise I wasn't going to). To be honest, I didn't enjoy that one either but it's another one ticked off Julia's TBR.

ETA: that gets us to 50 if we don't count 5, 27 (not on her TBR) and 19 (double counted). We've slowed down quite a bit; are we still going for more than 50?

>217 humouress: I certainly intend to read more of my books from Julia's list, with her on my mind as I do so. I don't see why we should stop counting.

>218 laytonwoman3rd: True. I should have said: are we aiming for a specific target, now that we've passed 50?

I am just, now, looking over the wiki. I read The Secret Garden - not realising it was on her list. (this year).

also The Tombs of Atuan

just finished 1776

these can be added to Julia, now

I can read The Portrait of a Lady - but it will be a few month till I start.

and

I used to know that : stuff you forgot from school - found@ state link/not local

I have added these three to my list- but if somebody reads them first - that is okay. fighting floods and car repairs at moment:

Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder: An Entertaining & Delicious Cozy Mystery with Recipes
SPQR : a history of ancient Rome
Fifty Famous People

>220 EGBERTINA: I read 1776 earlier this year, but counted it for my own ROOTs, not Julia's. I assume we're still doing that.

>222 atozgrl:
I counted it as mine as well, but can subtract it. I haven't tallied for the month of June; so an easy subtraction.

I've met my goal, so - not too worried if I donate a few.

I am currently reading Where You Once Belonged.

>217 humouress: I am currrently reading The Heist by Daniel Silva for Julia, and also have another lined up. This series works for me as they are either library books or borrowed from my brother, so don't count towards my root goal.

>220 EGBERTINA: Can you add them to the wiki? If you have problems, just ask and someone can help out :0)

>221 EGBERTINA: >224 laytonwoman3rd: >225 HelenBaker: You can add them to the wiki as 'planning to read' or 'currently reading' if you want.

>227 humouress: I was unable to figure it out. too many unfamiliar steps.

>224 laytonwoman3rd:, >227 humouress: I finished it now...I'm not terribly comfortable with the wiki, but I followed the coding from earlier entries and I think I edited the list properly.

>229 laytonwoman3rd: It looks good, thanks. There's just the link from the numbered list to the alphabetical list missing which you could copy from the 'Hepworth' line and just change the author name. Don't forget to put the closing tag at the end of the line, too. I tried to but unfortunately I cannot edit wikis right now (it seems to be a geographical thing which happens periodically).

Sorry if it's complex. I was trying to make it easier to navigate - there are a LOT of books on there!

>228 EGBERTINA: I usually do it by copying and pasting from one of the previous entries :0) I've tried to put explanations in on the Discussion page which is linked in the left-hand menu bar.

If you really can't work it out, let me know which books for which months and which are read/ which you are planning to read I'll give it a go once I can edit wikis again.

>230 humouress: I tried but it still seems to link to Hepworth. If you fix it, please let me know where I went wrong. I'd really like to be able to do this myself.

Is it possible it won't let more than one person edit at the same time? It would seem there could be problems if multiple users were in there messing with the code.

>231 laytonwoman3rd: It looks right. I’ve noticed that the links all jump the screen down a few lines, for some reason. I think that’s all it is. You can compare it with some of the other links.

Thanks, Nina. I will spend some more time just gazing over the code.

>230 humouress: I partly understood your explanation; but not completely.
... something in front
...then something after including author's name

after that i was just lost. captcha's and open search-like spaces.

i tried; i failed

if someone else is able, great - but if its a hassle i'll just drop it and add them back 2 me.

thank u for trying - its not u- my brain is just not there at this time.

>234 EGBERTINA: Unfortunately I am still unable to save my edits on wikis today (I just tried on a different wiki). If you put your books on the wiki, I can try and talk you through it. I can see edits and I can even make changes and preview them - but I just can't save them for now :0(

I have finished reading The Heist by Daniel Silva.I have tagged it READFORJULA. I am sorry I am not even going to try and attempt tamperiing with the wiki.

>236 HelenBaker: I could talk (write, actually) you through it? *smiles hopefully* Copy, paste and change as relevant works for me.

The last book on the list is currently

# ''Where You Once Belonged'' by Kent #Haruf - laytonwoman3rd

So just click on 'edit' at the top right of that section, paste it on the next line and change it to

# ''The Heist'' by Daniel [[#Silva]] - HelenBaker

And - oh look, I've done it for you. Just copy and paste that :0)

If you really want to know what the symbols do:
the # automatically creates the next number in the list
the " italicises the title (or you can highlight the text and click on the I button at the top left of the editing box)
the # within the double square brackets creates the first half of the link to the author's name in Julia's list.

>237 humouress:
I used your cut and paste (i think).

but it is all still kind of vague. I dont know how to get a checkmark in the checkmark section.

the first edit i entered was from the edit on the left- and it worked. took me awhile before i saw the edit on the right. the "sections" make it confusing. I finally figured out the captcha; and i marked "minor edit"- but i dont think it cares

What does qualify as a "minor edit" anyway? And why does it matter?

>238 EGBERTINA: Great! I had a look and it's fine.

I'll give you the way to get the checkmark in a sec (see >242 humouress:). But if you click on 'McCullough' it goes to (more or less) that section because there's already a link set up from a previous book.

If you click on edit on the left, you edit the whole wiki which, in this case, is quite large. If you edit the sections by clicking on the edit on the right side, opposite the title of the section, then you're just editing that section which is less cumbersome. Or at least I find it easier.

You do have to click on 'minor edit' and, if it asks for the Captcha, solve that and then click on 'save'.

>239 laytonwoman3rd: I have no clue. I just tick the box :0)

I edit in bite size chunks (and preview it) so it's easier to save (especially as I'm having problems with it at the moment) and check it.

>238 EGBERTINA: To get the checkmark and the second half of the link you put:

<div id="authorname">✅ at the beginning of the line. Make sure the author's name is spelled the same way as in the first half of the link you created.

and put:
</div> at the end of the line, to close the link.

You can copy and paste (make sure you change the name!) from the very first book on the list.

<div id="Aaronovitch">✅ '''Aaronovitch''', Ben [https://www.librarything.com/work/25000612/book/213374832 Tales from the Folly] (Fiction and Literature, Fantasy, Mystery)</div>

the ✅ is just an emoji symbol

ETA: You can copy and paste (make sure you change the name!) from the very first book on the list (Aaronovitch's 'Tales of the Folly') or from any book in the same section that already has a tick - whichever's easiest.

I think Nina needs a special badge for all this tutoring she's giving us for free...

>243 laytonwoman3rd: Thank you :0)
It's not a problem. I just hope it makes sense. But I'd pass the badge to SqueakyChu (of the TIOLI challenges) who taught me.

Sorry my attempts are getting worse. first i cut and pasted the

then i tried that last part in two different places.

so then i cut and paste someone else's checkmark

so im not sure what all the div id stuff does- but it doesn't make a checkmark appear. ill try to fix my last disaster

>245 EGBERTINA: No worries. SqueakyChu demonstrates by doing it for us and then undoing it and making us do it. So I'm going to do the same to you 😊. (By the way, I assume you mean 'copy and paste' rather than 'cut and paste', right?)

Well, you've got the checkmark, which is a good start.

If you look in the Bs, this entry has been read (number 45 in the list at the top, if you want to see how the link works):

<div id="Bowen">✅ '''Bowen''', Rhys https://www.librarything.com/work/18663234/book/182662627 In Farleigh Field (Fiction and Literature, Historical Fiction, Mystery, fiction, historical fiction)</div>

So:
- copy that first part <div id="Bowen">✅ , paste it at the front of the line your book is on and (most importantly) change the author's name to Burnett.
- copy the last part </div> and paste it at the end of your line

It should look like this:

<div id="Burnett">✅ '''Burnett''', Frances Hodgson https://www.librarything.com/work/2770555/book/80089551 The Secret Garden (Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, fiction, young adult)</div>

Try copying and pasting that into the wiki and it should be fine.

I notice you have read a book by David McCullough and if you click on the link you created in the list, it goes to his name in the wiki. It's actually to another book by him which has already been read, but you can copy and paste both bits of the second part of the link to your specific book to see how it works. I hope that makes sense.

- Not being an IT person, I couldn't tell you exactly how the <div id="Burnett"> part works but, together with the part you created in the list at the top with the author's name (spelled exactly the same) it creates the link.

- the </div> bit goes at the end to close the code so the link is just for that line.

>237 humouress: Sorry this reads like double dutch to me. I don't even though how to create a tick emoji. I am not very knowledgeable with computers. I will have to rely on someone else. Apologies.

>247 HelenBaker: Fair enough. Maybe I over-explained it.

The tick emoji is just copied and pasted, either from elsewhere in the wiki or from a texting app.

It's been quiet here...

I read Stoner in September, and added it to the wiki.

Today is Julia's birthday.

>250 karenmarie: Thank you for that reminder, Karen. I've been thinking about what my next memorial read will be, and today would be a good day to start one.

I have read another book for Julia. The English Spy by Daniel Silva. I have tagged it READFOR JULIA.