I had a plane ticket to fly to Shannon, Ireland on March 12th, 2020. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, given what we all know happened next. The punchline might be: Ireland is a lovely country…I’m told. I cast my mind back to that morning, when it was announced that all travel was … Continue reading 2020: A Life Raft Made of Books

This was an outstanding year for reading, with 51 fabulous (almost all of them) books. I read a ton of memoirs and biographies this year. I read a lot of Anne Tyler and Roxane Gay this year. I got some newer stuff from some favorites like McCracken and King. To keep my lists orderly I … Continue reading The Books I Read in 2019

2018 contained within it's boarders a lot of wonderful days and moments. I stayed in a yurt, went to Vermont, got a new car, attended a Wabanaki pow-wow and birch bark canoe flotilla, made delicious food, saw Louie fricken Anderson perform stand-up, cleaned dozens of houses, camped out in Acadia, and I hiked mountains in … Continue reading Thibeau’s Books 2018

In looking back at 2017 with only a few bitter cold days left, I have to say, it was a mean year. There was a solid whack of struggle and heartbreak for me personally, and a eye opening amount of upheaval on a national level. I'd say my greatest lesson learned this year is that … Continue reading 2017: The Books

I read 50 books in 2016. Looking back I found many books that pushed me out of my comfort zone and challenged me, such as: Between the World and Me, Geeklove, A Little Life, Homegoing, Aleph, and Kings of the Earth, to name just a few. I also read more books published in the last … Continue reading The 50 books of 2016

The Top Ten: 1. Father of the Rain, Lily King This year I discovered Lily King. I read four novels by her, and you'll find two of them in my top ten. The other two you will find in my bottom six, which I have labeled "don't bother". So, that's pretty interesting. I loved this … Continue reading 2015: The Year in Books

“You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” - Marvin Minsky How personal our literary choices feel. My books. Even the words sound tender, and as vital as skin pressed to skin. So when I speak of the books I've read this year, perhaps lovingly, perhaps with an impatient distaste, know … Continue reading The Books of 2014

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain When sitting down to review my reads for the year, and compiling my list, themes generally present themselves - and you'd have to be a coconut not to think on them for a moment, or perhaps speak of them. … Continue reading 2013 – End of Year Book Review

It was a wonderful, terrible, challenging, peaceful, and riotous year -- and that's to say nothing of the 62 books I got through. But, as always, amidst the noisy tumult that is life, I read; rainy afternoons tucked in a corner of The Hubbard Free Library, dark cold lonely January mornings wrapped in a blanket … Continue reading 2012 – Year End Book Review

I love to read, and I love to know what everyone else is reading and what they're thinking about it all. Nothing is quite as pleasing as running my eyes down a long list of books, and noting what I've also read, what I would never read, and perhaps a few I'd wondered about. Such … Continue reading A Look Back – The Books of 2011