To Be Read -- It's like money in the bank to have a pile of new books waiting. My family knows my predilections and for Christmas they gave me books -- paper and audio. Sometimes I make a little list -- Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and Marta McDowell's The Garden Alphabetized were on my list this year and delightful they are indeed. I'll say more about each of them at a later date when I've had time to reread them -- I dashed through both at such a pace that I promised myself a second go round, at a leisurely saunter this time.
I've been curious about the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik since it came out in 2006. And I kept asking my kids if they'd read it till they gave me these three. It's fantasy/alternate reality -- set in England of the Napoleonic era -- a bit like Patrick O'Brian, a bit like Jane Austen. But here there be dragons -- flying, speaking dragons that comprise the Aerial Corps, a proud part of England's defense.
I love audio books and rarely travel anywhere farther than the mailbox without a story playing, I look forward to enjoying the always-entertaining Bill Bryson's wit, as well as savoring The Christmas Carol, in or out of season.
Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys kept me company as I deconstructed the tree and packed away the ornaments on New Year's Eve and yesterday as I made a cheeseball for the neighbors' New Year's Day party. Fat Charlie and Spider will make the ironing and the cleaning and the dish-washing a lot more fun during the next few days as I carry my boom box from room to room.
Did you all get books? If so, feel free to tempt me with yet another book I ought to read.
Did you all get books? If so, feel free to tempt me with yet another book I ought to read.
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