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A Month of Reading: April

Best read of the past month: Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane Yeah. It was a slow month. But this is a good one. Warning: May cause nightmares. Best rereads of the past month: Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich

My Will

Sunrise Over Rome

I've read so many wonderful books on airplanes. By chance, it seems. In fact, they're often new authors (to me). I've seen the book on the shelf before. Perhaps the cover called to me, or maybe I've been resisting picking it up, subconsciously afraid it won't live up to my expectations, not wanting to lose the possibility that it might. But, feeling high on my vacation spirit, this time I pick it up. "I've got wanderlust ," I whisper to the book, fingering that promising cover. "Why don't you come with me?" And we're off. I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on an overnight flight to Rome. I hadn't realized transatlantic flights could be so...well, magical. It was pitch black on the other side of the oval window. Everyone else on the plane was asleep and a delicious shiver went up my spine as I read the last line of that very first chapter, "One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowi...

A Month of Reading: March

Best reads of the month: The Thirteenth House by Sharon Shinn A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane Best rereads of the month: Mystic & Rider (of course) by Sharon Shinn Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay Life Without Friends by Ellen Emerson White

A Month of Reading: February

Best reads of the past month: The Canterbury Papers by Judith Koll Healey Blade of Fortriu by Juliet Marillier Best rereads of the past month: The Alleluia Files by Sharon Shinn Angelica by Sharon Shinn

A Month of Reading: January

Best reads of the past month: A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb The Book of Mordred by Vivian Vande Velde The Dark Mirror by Juliet Marillier Shakespeare's Champion by Charlaine Harris Shakespeare's Christmas by Charlaine Harris Shakespeare's Trollop by Charlaine Harris Shakespeare's Counselor by Charlaine Harris Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Once there was a snowman

I posted Will's first jack-o-lantern, so I thought I should post his first snowman. Adam, Aaron, Will, & I labored over this big guy for an afternoon and were pretty darn pleased with the finished product. We call him....Frosty.