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Warning: Book series contains giant bugs!

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  Famous author Suzanne Collins wrote a fun adventure series before Katniss Everdeen and her Hunger Games. The Underland Chronicles chronicles an 11-year-old boy from a working-class family named Gregor. His journey starts when he falls through a laundry chute into another world—a world beneath his own, known to those who live there as the Underland. The overarching plot of the five books follows the hero's journey trope, finding Gregor fulfilling a prophesied role as a warrior destined to fight in a world war for the humans. Each book has its own quest, Gregor must journey through. Each quest brings in new landscapes and new characters Gregor loves, loathes, finds, and loses.  The landscape world-building Gregor travels through across all five books brings to mind an expanded version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. All territories of the treacherous geography are inhabited by oversized counterparts of our own familiar “overland” creatures.  It is almost impos...
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July 2022

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It's been a heck of a half a year(ish). We were all set for Japan and it didn't go nowhere (thank you recent diagnoses!) so while we physically didn't have to move (we were lucky with the housing),  emotionally and mentally...and financially, we were all  topsy-turvy. It took me longer to manage life and yet, here we go again! This time, it will be public school for a Luna, and a Luna less house for me. The husband only changed offices when we stayed on, so he seems to have the easiest change up. I recognized a few more things (or a few things again) while life managing : Even when I feel "settled" even the smallest detail can spin me about...which means my perspective concept has more to grasp yet. As our (my) life grows up, the more we seem to need; (for some reason, I was thinking we'd stabilize after a good amount of time, though if we were solo, we might be by now) thus i need to work out how to handle another way to contribute (besides housekeeping, part...
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December road trippin'

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Home again home again, Jiggity-jig! We spent Christmas/new years with family back in the south west (USA). It was cool and rainy for the most part but we did get some sunny warm days which was nice. The trip there we went along interstate 20 going west and I got to stop and quite a few pretty antique shops along the way (too many according to the rest of the peeps since they were bored and we had to hustle towards the end of our drive). Stopping in towns along the way and having a meal or bed is, I realize, a good starter to get the feel if the place. The goal was to stop before or right after the borders of the state (expect Texas- that was too big for just one stop) and we sort of did that...mostly. Ooh but the favorite of the trip down was the private owned ghost town of Shaskpeare! It is in New Mexico and while it is only by group tours you get to see New Mexico in all it's late 19th century through the 20 and 21 century glory! Mine town, saloon, mail/stage coach station galore...
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