destination unknown: Hurray for Spring!

I have seen so many robins. Spring is truly here! (can you tell that it has been a really long winter??)

First a howling blizzard woke us,
Then the rain came down to soak us,
And now before the eye can focus -
Crocus.
~Lilja Rogers

A Year of Fiction (2014)

A Year of Fiction (2013)

MaddAddam (Margaret Atwood) October
The Year of the Flood- reread (Margaret Atwood) October
Oryx and Crake -reread (Margaret Atwood) September
Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Maria Semple) September
The Magician King (Lev Grossman) September
The Magicians (Lev Grossman) August
And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini) August
the brief, wondrous life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz) August
The Cat's Table (Michael Ondaatje) July
That Thing That Happened (Libby Broadbent) July
Earth Unaware (Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnson) July
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared (Jonas Jonasson) June
Speaking from Among the Bones (Alan Bradley) YA June
I am Half-Sick of Shadows (Alan Bradley)YA June
A Red Herring Without Mustard (Alan Bradley) YA May
This is How You Lose Her (Junot Diaz) May
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag (Alan Bradley) YA May
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Alan Bradley) YA May
The Next Queen of Heaven (Gragory Maguire) April
Before I go to Sleep (S.J. Watson) April
Dog Stars (Peter Heller) April
Flight Behavior (Barbara Kingsolver) April
The Unlikely Pilgrimmage of Harold Fry (Rachel Joyce) March
Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Carol Rifka Brunt) March
The Light Between Oceans (M L Stedman) March
Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher) March
Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follet) February
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake (Jenny Wingfield ) January
The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey) January
Talk Funny Girl (Roland Merullo) January

Wednesday, April 20, 2011