Budding Prospects: A Pastoral by T. Coraghessan Boyle
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I am a fan of this author but would have to think hard to come up with who to recommend this one to. I found it a well-written page turner and yet kept thinking of my uncle Steve Chapple and his book Outlaws in Babylon: True Adventures on the Marijuana Frontier, which came out about the same time in the 1980s. Not likeable characters!
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Copyediting for UC Press
After my first book for the press, I have gone on to work on several more.
- A History of Modern Tibet, vol. 4, In the Eye of the Storm, 1957–1959, by Melvyn C. Goldstein (October 2019)
- Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia, by David M. Lampton, Selina Ho, and Cheng-Chwee Kuik (October 2020)
- Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico, by Maurice Rafael Magaña (November 2020)
- Parallel Modernism: Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan, by Chinghsin Wu (November 2019)
Coming up later this summer is a book by Roger Garside, with the tentative title China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom. Each book from this university press has been interesting and challenging in different ways.
Mini book review

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Despite occasionally thinking I’m too old to read this childhood to coming-of-age book, I found it really compelling. Wonderful nature descriptions mixed with a page-turner plot.
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Flying the dream

Being pilots and now owning our own airplane, my husband and idea have had opportunities others may only dream of–hopping over to one of the San Juan Islands in Puget Sound just for a stroll and lunch; observing the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, from Midvale, Idaho; coming back across the mountains without the hassle of highway traffic.
Adult spelling bees
Contrary to what you may think, the adult spelling bee gets its name from the age restriction, not the type of words. For some reason, spelling bees are widely regarded as being for children. Not so, in my experience. Here are some I have had fun at.
An interesting bilingual project
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Montana events
A publisher conference to look forward to
PubWest, a trade association formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Book Publishers Association, puts on fun and informative conferences. Today they released this attractive poster for the conference.
New client: University of California Press
Working from Baltimore this week
While my husband attends the Microscopy & Microanalysis conference in Baltimore this week, I decided to be a part-time tourist and copyedit a journal article part-time as well. Today I visited the National Aquarium, which I was surprised to discover contains much more than a shark tank, numerous fresh- and saltwater tanks of fish and coral, and a movie theater. That could be because it is two aquaria merged together.