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

The Gravy Reading has always been a necessity for me. That thing I do no matter what, rain or shine, sickness and health, good times and bad. I find it to be the most constant and consistent quality of my life, and for that I am grateful. I am lucky to be surrounded by avid … Continue reading Thibeau’s Books 2010