Reviews can be found on my Goodreads . 2022 favorite reads in order of preference. The Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham Hannah Coulter - Wendell Berry Good Omens - Neil Gaiman The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgahov Harry Potter Series Abolition of Man - C. S. Lewis The Hoosier Schoolmaster - Edward Eggleston The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho An Everyday Girl - Amy Ella Blanchard Rules of Civility - Amor Towels Longest book: Anna Karenina Shortest book: The Abolition of Man Most Moving: The Island of Missing Trees, The Growth of the Soil Most Challenging: The Art of Letting Go Most Fun - An Everyday Girl, Good Omens Favorite non-fiction: The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller, Say Nothing Most Likely to Recommend (all ages) - Peter Pan, The Ascendance Series, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, Hannah Coulter Least Likely to Recommend:
Part two of an ongoing roadtrip series After Grief Comes Nostalgia Fellowshipping with a group of ex-amish women over Thanksgiving in Lancaster Pennsylvania My only plan for November and October was to write. I wrote, and two new novels came to me. Beginning of November I met up in Asheville with one of my best friends. We found ourselves all the way down in Louisiana for the Blackpot festival, then up to visit friends in Mississippi: a pile of wild boys with the most dangerous ideas of fun. Somehow we lived and didn't want to leave. Back in Asheville I did a bit of a work trade sewing a bunch of cushions to stay in at an artsy commune. My sunroof was also broken into. Nothing of mine was even rifled through. I figure they took one look at my hanging herbs and baskets of mugs and chopsticks and piles of wool and linen and thought it must be a witch's lair. Nothing was stolen. But t