It was a wonderful year in books for me. Looking back I see so many good reads, and I'm grateful I get to share them here with you. One of the strongest connective threads in my books from this past year is the intense, transformative, and sometimes wounding power of love. Love can be an … Continue reading 2025 in Books
Year End Book Review
2024 Book Blog
That's right, it's a blog. The theme for my year was acquisition. Some years you pare down, shed and streamline, and some years you gather, nest, gain. All that to say, I bought a house, with a lovely big yard, in the country. Much of my energies this year went into this process, obtaining and … Continue reading 2024 Book Blog
2023 Book Blog
Time is a runaway train. Another year has rushed past me. It was a really good one, looking back, but it was also a bit slippery. I had some big adventures, like a two week writing residency at Monson Arts that was profoundly good and creatively life giving, a wonderful jaunt to Denmark where I … Continue reading 2023 Book Blog
2022: The Books
It has been a very full year. While 2020 & 21 were years of stripping things down, and turning in, this past year has been a long much needed replenishment. I got back out in the world, and I started to build again. This year my cleaning business has grown and matured in really fulfilling … Continue reading 2022: The Books
2021: A Delightful Mosaic of Books
I’ve done a lot of looking back this year. I turned 40. My business turned 10. I built Thibeautown, which forced me to revisit 11 years of book blogs. And I, like all of us, continued on into a second year of dealing with a highly contagious global pandemic. The constant change, uncertainty, and fallout … Continue reading 2021: A Delightful Mosaic of Books
2020: A Life Raft Made of Books
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
The Books I Read in 2019
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
Thibeau’s Books 2018
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
2017: The Books
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
The 50 books of 2016
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
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