Vesuvius At Home: The Moody Blues

This is what we do when it snows:

They are like this all the time, just hugs and kisses non-stop, I swear:

Reading 2015

A few stories from A Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin, which I liked
A few pages of Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
On The Small Backs of Children, Lidia Yuknavitch
Also gave The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey the college try
Tried really hard with Everything I Never Told You, but no
About 1/3 of Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing
Crazy Brave, Joy Harjo
The Lover, Marguerite Duras
The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff
You by Caroline Kepnes
A little bit of The Young Elites by Marie Lu
A little bit of Villa Americana by Liza Klaussman
A little bit of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A little bit of Among The Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpoint
The Girls from Corona Del Mar, Rufi Thorpe, can't stop thinking about it
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty, Vendela Vida
The Little Paris Bookshop, Nina George
My Struggle, Book 2, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Spinster, Kate Bolick, quite fascinating
The Foretelling, Alice Hoffman
Missoula, Jon Krakauer, everyone should read this book
The Wild Oats Project, Robin Rinaldi
Astonish Me, Maggie Shipstead
This One Is Mine, Maria Semple
How Should A Person Be? Sheila Heti, best book in the world for me right now
Rick Steve's Paris 2014, yes I read it nearly cover to cover, highly recommended, Rick is quietly hilarious
Stuff Parisians Like, Olivier Magny, not recommended
Parisian Chic, Ines de la Fressange
See How Small, Scott Blackwood
The Sweet Life in Paris, David Lebovitz
The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins, meh
Mastering the Art of French Eating, Ann Mah
The Unspeakable, Megan Daum
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed

What I've Read Lately, In No Order, Because I've lost Track

Nobody is Ever Missing
Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
Yes, Please, Amy Poehler
No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
The Book of Strange New Things, Michael Faber
The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters, not finishing
Excavation, Wendy C. Ortiz
The Solace of Open Spaces, Gretel Erlich
Submergence, J. M. Ledgard
The Other Side, Lacy Johnson
The Wives of Los Alamos, We Didn't Finish It
California, Edan Lepucki, nope nope nope
Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng, Nope
We Are Not Ourselves, Matthew Thomas, didn't finish
The Witch, Jean Thompson, didn't finish
All The Light We Cannot See, didn't finish
Dreaming of Hitler, Daphne Merkin
The Story Sisters, Alice Hoffman
Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
Not That Kind Of Girl, Lena Dunham
Paris: The Secret History, Andrew Hussey
The Stranger Next Door, Amelie Nothomb
Empire of the Summer Moon, S. C. Gwynne
Don't Make Me Say Goodbye, Mary Moon
The Blood Jewels Trilogy, Anne Bishop
The Secret Place, Tana French
Birth Mother, Denise Emanuel Clemen
Autobiography of A Face, Lucy Grealy
The Romanov Sisters, Helen Rappaport
Kiki Strike: The Invisible City, Kristen Miller
My Struggle Book One, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Atmospheric Disturbances, Maggie May Etheridge
The Tree of Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar
The Vacationers, Emma Straub
She Left Me The Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me, Emma Brockes
The Conscious Parent, Shefali Tsabary
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
Jamaica Dreams, Rosemarie Robotham
Hope For A Sea Change, Elizabeth Aquino
The Opposite of Loneliness, Marina Keegan
Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
Thunderstruck, Elizabeth McCracken
Living With A Wild God, Barbara Ehrenreich
Half of A Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dawn, Octavia E. Butler
Uganda Be Kidding Me, Chelsea Handler
Under Magnolia, Frances Mayes
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

Vesuvius At Home

Friday, April 3, 2009

The Moody Blues

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