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Some of these states have more than one of these things, but all of them have at least one.

Another book in my Nobel Prize Quest! One of the interesting things here is that this is a non-fiction book. Le Clezio is a French language novelist, but he has lived in Mexico for much of his life, and this is a non-fiction account of the conquest of the Aztecs by the Spanish.
One of the problems with a book like this is that as deathless as the prose might be, the sociological and historical research is going to move on. So I enjoyed the poetic part of the book, but I don't know how academically valid the conclusions of the book are.

This is another book read as part of my Nobel Prize quest. Tokarczuk won in 2018. Compared to some winners of the prize, this was an accessible book. It is even funny, being a comedy of manners set in a tuberculosis resort. Some of the topical humor is a bit outside of my scope, since it is based on Pre-World War I social stereotypes. I liked it, and am looking forward to reading more of her works.

This was a Dollar Tree pick-up! Sometimes I can find good independent graphic novels at The Dollar Tree. Apparently this is the adaptation of an entire property that I haven't heard about before. This is YA semi-dystopian science-fiction. It had an interesting take on some familiar concepts. The biggest problem as a graphic novel is that it was done in greyscale, and so I had trouble following which character was which at first.

Simak wrote what amounted to "cozy" science-fiction. This book has a couple discovering a portal to the past in their backyard (along with a crashed space craft and a stranded alien), and describes their rather prosaic plans to make money by providing safaris to time tourists. Many of the larger issues of time travel are just ignored. I've read several of Simak's books, and they are nice little adventures.

I picked these out from the library with the idea of having some "light reading". These turned out to be way too heavy. I read a lot of Marvel comics. I have been reading Marvel comics for at least 40 years. These get so heavy and deep into continuity, and involve so many dense plots and so many new characters, or old characters used in confusing ways, that I found it a bit of a chore to keep up. These were also thinner than some TPBs, so I checked four of them out...and I am still wading through them!
I don't really know who the average Marvel/X-Man fan is in the 2010s or 2020s.

More relatively light Marvel, from the "snappy dialogue" era, more or less. At some point, I will have read all of the TPBs for three libraries. I usually find these enjoyable and fun, although I don't know what else I exactly get out of them.

I finished this one a few weeks ago, and forgot to add it. This is light, fun DC reading. I actually think DC can be more fun to read than Marvel because it isn't quite as overdosed on continuity. So this is my pleasure reading while in the middle of other things.

Yes, I am posting this for a particular reason, but I will let people rate before I say.

>!This is in Hillsboro, Oregon, located less than 1000 feet from the Hillsboro Airport MAX stop, which has better than 10 minute service during peak hours, and has trains 20 hours a day. The people in this neighborhood can walk to a light rail station in under 5 minutes and be in downtown Hillsboro in 10 minutes and in downtown Beaverton in 20, or in downtown Portland in 45. !<

I was just talking to someone who, after I showed a picture of the beach, suggested this as a course of action. I think they were from New York or something.
Anyway, in the next few messages I got blocked.

But when people's main experience with the beach is of Atlantic beaches, and they suggest you do something like this, how do you respond?

This one is a bit of a story:
At the first Grammy Awards, in 1959, a band called "The Champs" recorded a song called "Tequilla", that won a Grammy at the first awards, for Rhythm and Blues performance. "The Champs" included two young session musicians, Jim Seals and Dash Crofts, that would go on to form a soft-rock duo in the 1970s.
Jim Seals would pass away in 2022, while Dash Croft would pass away in March of 2026, meaning that a winner from the first Grammy Awards was still alive until this year's Grammy Awards, and that the 2027 Grammy's will be the first without a winner from the original awards.

(Unless someone can find another session museum from that year that is still alive).

He won the 1955-56 season, and is still alive today.
The NBA as a league goes back several years before then, but the MVP trophy dates from 1955.

Sidney Poitier, who won the Academy Award in 1963, was born in 1927, the same year the prize was instituted. He lived until 2022, and so he easily overlapped the life of all other winners. This will probably be the case for a while longer, since it will be a while until someone born after 2022 will be old enough to win the prize.