This one would have been fun to include with my October 30 post: Cursed Objects: Strange But True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items, by J.W. Ocker. Seems anything can be cursed ... a statue, a necklace, a doll, a chair ... The author explores how something got cursed, what that curse is, and how many people have been affected. He has a rather enjoyable tongue-in-cheek style when discussing, say, if a statue over a grave is cursed because it turned black, or if it was because the metal was exposed to the elements! There's a Whatcom County connection with one of the items ... well, maybe!

In the past I've always tucked a copy of The Old Farmer's Almanac in the stocking of a friend of mine ... well ... this year she has already been given TWO and she passed one on to me. :-) I've not read one in ages and the 2021 edition by Robert B. Thomas proved to be an interesting read. I skipped over the planting schedules but enjoyed the articles on nature, astronomy, amusement and so on. The weather forecasts were fun, too. Now, whether or not I will remember to pull this off the shelf to check if it was accurate is another story! ;-)

Reading Hermit With Dog