Comments on: What I Read Last Year {and a challenge}

By: Kimberlee Conway Ireton

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 01:22:00 +0000

Carrie, I loved Crossing to Safety. For a number of years it was among my very favorite books. I think I need to reread it. And thank you for reminding me of Kenyon and Levertov. It’s been awhile since I read them. And you’re local, so we should plan dinner and a book conversation anyway…

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By: Kimberlee Conway Ireton

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 01:20:00 +0000

June, I read The Keeper of the Bees in 2014. My first ever Gene Stratton-Porter novel! Like you, I went my whole life not knowing about that book. It was delightful. As, of course, is Anne, one of my favorite literary heroines ever.

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By: Kimberlee Conway Ireton

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 01:17:00 +0000

Shannon, I love A Damsel in Distress. It’s one of my favorite Wodehouse novels. I think I’ve read it three times! And Lilias is my great-aunt. (Okay, not really, but I’ve adopted her…)

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By: Kimberlee Conway Ireton

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 01:16:00 +0000

Thank you, Jody. I loved the Lilias Trotter bio; I actually cried at the end. She is one of my heroes. And of course I love Anne. I’ll have to get my hands on Laurie’s book! Thanks for recommending it in such certain terms

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By: Kimberlee Conway Ireton

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 01:14:00 +0000

Meagan! You ALWAYS read lots. It’s one of the reasons I like you so much. You’ve always got a good book to recommend Like these here. Thank you!

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By: clbeyer

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:39:00 +0000

What a good list to read on a sick day. I must remember to add some Gerard Manley Hopkins to my stack. Now I’m bundled up reading _Crossing to Safety_ by Wallace Stegner. It’s gentle and human, and I hope to revisit his work later this year. Jane Kenyon and Denise Levortov have been my recent poetry favorites.

I’d love to meet the challenge of reading more than you, if I can only make it! Dinner over a discussion of books sounds like the best blog prize ever.

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By: June

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:30:00 +0000

This list is a keeper, Kimberlee, thank you for sharing. I was wondering where you had been lately and then found your post in gmails “promotional” folder – grrrr! I will have to be better at checking it before hitting delete. And so now I have to catch up with you My favorite read from 2015 was The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter. How I went my entire life not knowing about this book . . . sigh, I also re-read the Anne of Green Gables books, very fun. I usually have several books going at once. And don’t have nearly as much time to read as I would like. Have a blessed weekend!

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By: Shannon

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:08:00 +0000

Oh my goodness! I could have written the same post with different titles, though I didn’t hit 70. I am reading Lilas Trotter and A Damsel in Distress – Wodehouse. I fell in love with old books last year. The blessed treasure of stories fill my mind and heart and crowd out the grouchie moods and modern worries. I love your ❤!

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By: Jody Ohlsen Collins

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:15:00 +0000

Oh, Doug is correct….SO glad you sent this note of encouragement to us all. I finished very few books, but am currently enjoying
Camelot (The Once and Future King) by THWhite
The Biography of Lilias Trotter,
‘The Golden Skylark’ collection by Elizabeth Goudge
Laurie Klein’s new poetry book ‘Where the Sky Opens’ GET THIS BOOK. please
Anne of Green Gables–read it as a 12 year old, love it still 50 years later.
‘The Glorious Dark’ by A.J.Swoboda (Good Friday, Saturday and Easter Sunday)
That’s all I can recall sitting here at the typewriter.
I’ll have to go make that list.

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By: Meagan

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:07:00 +0000

Count me in! I’ll definitely read lots this year. <3

Some of my favorites from last year include Jaye L. Knight's "Half-Blood"; Katie Ganshert's "The Art of Losing Yourself"; and Michelle Cushatt's "Undone".

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