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12 in 2025: A Year in Pictures
I’m going to honest, as I tried to compile (very much after the fact) my best photos from 2025, I had a very hard time. Some months had almost nothing to choose from, and others were so full of choices that it was painful to only use one. But those are the rules, even if I am the only one playing the game. So let’s go! JANUARY This is a view from above of the Palm Court at the Grove Park Inn in…
Favorite Reads from 2025
I read 97 books in 2025. That’s an average of 8 per month, and it’s close to the record (103 in 2023) since I started keeping track–a full 20 books more than I read the first year I set a reading goal. And now it’s time to review that year of reading. Y’all know the drill. I strive to do a top-ten list, but this year there are only eight. I tend to stay away from re-reads, but I do make…
What I Read in June
Toward the end of May, we went on a family vacation to Baltimore and Wildwood, New Jersey. Among its many other delights, Wildwood has a fantastic used bookstore and there was a ten-book special. So June was all about reading books from some favorite authors. Rage by Jonathan Kellerman Dark, dark read about the murder of a toddler, a sociopathic child, and more sordid things I can’t write about…
What I Read in May
Like most folks these days, I do a lot of reading online. I keep many tabs open with stories that I like to read while eating breakfast or lunch in fron of my computer. Most of these stories are from The Atlantic, and I actually purchased a subscription because I felt guilty about how many times a day I was circumventing their paywall. Anyway, over several days I read the story below, which was…
What I Read in April
I started off April by continuing to consume my last McKay’s haul and concluded by starting my birthday haul. And in the middle I ven grabbed one off that bedroom shelf! Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult Why do I keep reading Jodi Picoult books? I really don’t know, and with McKay’s gone maybe I never will again. Her endings suck. She’s going for moral ambiguity but I think many of her characters…
What I Read in March
Oh dear. It suddenly occurs to me tht the more books I read, the longer these posts become! And I read 14 books in March! About Time by David Duchovny This was the last of my Christmas books. It’s poetry, whcih I had no idea Duchovny wrote. This book wasn’t on my wishlist; my son and his fiancee gave it to me; I think they were bing funny because they know what an X-Phile I am. But anyway, the…
What I Read in February
In February, continued reading the books I received for Christmas and they were delightful. Jane and the Wandering Eye by Stephanie Barrom I’ve been reading this series for a while now. They are a series of murder mysteries, purported to be from Jane Austen’s letters, in which Jane herself is the sleuth. If you like Jane Austen, and you like mysteries–I like both–these are for you. Rather than…
What I Read in January
I started off January in a big way, reading not only five books from my Christmas haul but also some McKay’s finds AND a free Kindle book for good measure. Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff by Matt Paxton A very cool book by a guy who helps people minimize while honoring their attachments to their possessions. I wish I could hire him, as I am determined not to leave behind a mess for other people…
What I Read in December
Yikes! I have not written anything down yet, and it is already almost the end of the month. Is it really possible that I have only read one book so far this month? I have been super busy this month with work and Christmas, so perhaps it is. The week between Christmas and New Year’s is my absolute favorite because I can just sit in my chair by the tree and read read read. Which is what I did…
What I Read in November
I started off November with a trip to my big bedroom shelf and pulled out the book below. The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart I first encountered Mary Stewart as a child when I read The Little Broomstick. I found out about her adult, gothic-type novels as a teenager and since then have read several, but this one was new to me. I don’t know how to explain Stewart’s fiction. They are first-person…
What I Read in October
I started off this month just as I promised–I went to the giant shelf in my room and picked a book that had been sitting there for a long time. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton This was a fabulous book! I don’t know why I waited so long to read it, especially since I had read and enjoyed books by this author before. It’s a mystery that straddles two time periods as a daughter sets out to learn…
What I Read in September
I turned over a new leaf this month, y’all. I have committed to raising the bar on my reading. From now on I am going to try to alternate escapist fiction from McKay’s and Amazon Prime with the many other higher-brow tomes that fill my new bookcase! Yes, I have a new bookcase! You are probably familiar with the picture I often display with these book posts of a coffee table with books all over…
An Anniversary
One year ago today, my father died. But I didn’t know it yet. One year ago, I didn’t know I would never see Daddy in this life again, that I would never hear him say, “Hey girl,” on the telephone, that I would never buy flowers and tomatoes for his windowbox and garden, that he would never sit in my corner armchair drinking coffee at birthday parties. One year ago, I fell asleep with no idea of…
What I Read in August
I started off August still finishing up July’s McKay’s haul. I said plenty about Michael Connelly then, so we will pass over the first two books below. Fair Warning by Michael Connelly Blood Work by Michael Connelly I have my own sharing library in my front yard. Sometimes I pick out used books especially to put there, and I try to keep a few on hand for the kids in the neighborhood. That’s why I…
What I Read in June
I did some rereading in June because I went to San Francisco in May, and that always makes me want to read books that are set in San Francisco. Belle-Mere by Kathleen Norris I found this book in a bag of old books in our garage when I was maybe ten years old. I read that copy absolutely to pieces. (Have you noticed that I did that a lot?) It’s hard to imagine why I liked this book so much. It’s…
What I Read in May
I only read five books this month, at least partly because I traveled for several days visiting my middle son who has returned to San Francisco. I would love to tell you all about that and maybe I will get back to doing travel posts again too, although those are labor-intensive because of the pictures, and the pictures are kind of the point. The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett So I went out with two…
What I Read in April
On March 31, 2025, my father died. On April 1, 2025, I was the one who found him. Maybe I will write more about that later, maybe not. But one thing is for sure, I was profoundly affected by it. And the month of April was profoundly affected too, with all the busy-ness and business that death entails. So you might think I would not have read at all, but I did, because reading is comforting to me.…