Sensory Strides #47: Steven J. Carroll, All the Worlds of Men, Leap Day Geocaching; Fill the Calendar; Three Dark Crowns; Kendare Blake; Opalescence; Ray Rayborne

<p><strong>Quote</strong> “It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.” ― <strong>Steven J. Carroll, from</strong> <a href= "https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/25804820"><strong>All the Worlds of Men</strong></a></p> <p>Welcome to the Sensory Strides podcast.  Observations of the world through activity, reading, listening, and everything else.</p> <p>52 Hike Challenge – Join us!  There are free challenges and lots of swag you can buy. <a href= "https://www.52hikechallenge.com/?rfsn=3543491.754f73&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=3543491.754f73"> https://www.52hikechallenge.com/?rfsn=3543491.754f73&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=3543491.754f73</a></p> <p>#52hikechallenge2020</p> <p>Geocaching  <a href= "http://www.geocaching.com">www.geocaching.com</a></p> <p>Woke up with a text from my mom last week reminding me I needed to go get a geocache that day.  It took me about a half hour before I realized it was leap day.  Geocachers play all sorts of games with their caches, one of which is Fill the Calendar.  The goal is to find a cache on every day of the year – not necessarily all in the same year, but each date you would have found a cache.  Well – leap year only happens once every four years so if you miss it, you can’t complete the challenge for another four years (although I am pretty sure my mom and I found a cache together last leap year).  I’m not big on the stats games, but I did make sure to head out and find a cache on leap day anyway!</p> <p>I’ve gotten into young adult fantasy the last few weeks.  It started because those are usually easily available on the Libby app through the library for ebooks.</p> <p>Some of the books have been very strange and others I couldn’t put down.  Many of the books I choose were series so if I liked them I would have additional books to read.  I also tried to make sure they were books where the series was fully released.  Nothing like reading a series and then having to wait years for the sequel – I never remember w