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A recent read...

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Hello! I wanted to share with you my thoughts about a book I read recently Or, I listened to it on audiobook, but I guess whether you hear it or read it it’s still a story.

Flight 171

Amy Christine Parker

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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐★

Genre: Horror, Thriller, YA

Summary Plane flight is overcome by supernatural entity with one malicious request: save everyone by sacrificing one. Also, your sister's killer might be on this plane.

Opening Line So, class trip poll: if you had to choose between dying in a plane crash or a car accident, which would you pick?

I was a bit torn on giving a rating - I think I’d settle on 3.5, as it’s a bit predictable and I didn’t exactly look forward to continue reading it, but the read through was thrilling and I couldn’t put it down. Quite a few of the characters (including the main character) wasn’t really my type of character, but I guess they’re depicted as flawed teenagers. I also felt like there were plot holes here and there, but I’m generally more okay with things not being explained as long as it feels complete as a story I had a hard time keeping track of who was who since there were quite a few characters, so when some of the twists and reveals happened, I couldn’t remember why those characters were important.

Overall, the story reminded me of the movie Devil (2010) (five individuals are trapped in a high-rise elevator with one devil-possessed) and the “sacrifice one to save all” trope It always stresses me quite a lot to read these since it’s tense the entire way through. The slow build up to “what happened on Halloween night” (the mystery around the death of the main character’s sister) was weaved in with everyone involved on the flight. I liked how those connected in even if there wasn’t exactly unique twists. I did think the overall message the book tried to convey left me with a good feeling.

Anyway, what are you reading recently?

I’m waiting eagerly for Stephen King’s Holly to fall into my Libby basket; I’ve been on hold for so many weeks so I’m excited to read it. I couldn’t finish his last new book (Billy Summers) because it made me too anxious at the time, but I’d like to finish it eventually. With the holiday season coming up, I would recommend NOS4A2 by Joe Hill as an suitable holiday read (note: it’s very heavy on some disturbing topics, so be sure to look up content warnings as well)

Uni Foraging

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Hello, how was your weekend?

We went uni foraging on Saturday! There was a local spot that my friend invited us to go to that is very suitable for this activity

To be honest, I was little scared of it at first because it seems very painful for the uni, but this variant (the purple uni) that you can forage for is actually invasive and extremely detrimental to the environment in this area. I had no idea, but apparently purple sea urchins devoured over 90-95% of the kelp forests near California since their populations exploded so quickly!

Note, if you’re interested in this, you’ll need to get a fishing license and make sure the area you’re foraging in isn’t protected for the sea life.

It was really a beautiful day out I don’t think it’s in my photo, but this area is the coast across from Catalina Island, so you can see it in the distance when you’re there.

We started from Christmas Tree Cove and made our way down the steep rocky cliff to the tidepool area to start seeing where we can forage The tide was going down for about an hour after we arrived but quickly came back higher than expected so our friends got quite splashed!

I stayed back a bit, because I’m a little scared of sea kelp, and also getting wet

It was so kelpy! We saw lots of little hermit crabs as well as a mystery “starfish” with extremely lanky legs (maybe a 5-legged octopus somehow…?) One of our friends said she usually sees sea slugs, but she didn’t see any this time.

One of the finds was this red uni that is normally only found while diving! It looks so spikey, doesn’t it? The purple uni was spikier earlier but he seemed to deflate a bit after being left out for photos…

Overall, it was really fun and very “new” to me kind of activity. We spent some time cleaning the uni which was relaxing under the sun. We chatted with another group too who were just out observing sea life. It was nice!

I’m really happy my friends invited me to this even if it’s quite different from what I’m usually doing, since they remembered both my guy and I wanted to try it