May is ending with disappointment. The caboose of the story (instead of the whole train) is that due to work obligations Kisa & I were not able to make it to Maine for a long weekend over the holiday. As a result I had to burn two vacation days at home. June will be a better month. But, to be fair – May wasn’t so shabby for books:
- Brilliant Orange by David Winner
- Bold Spirit by Linda Hunt
- Jordan by E. Borgia
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn
- Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok
- Map of Another Town by MFK Fisher
- All the Rage by Martin Moran (ER)
ADDED:
- Arab and Jew by David Shipler
- Perks of Being a Wallflower by David Chbosky
DNF:
- Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
For JUNE, here are the books & why:
- Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada by Zoe Valdes in honor of Caribbean Heritage Month
- Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill to continue the series started in May
- Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich in honor of her birth month
- The Millstone by Margaret Drabble in honor of family month
- A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan in honor of World War II (D-Day)
June is National Short Story Month:
- from Birds of America by Lorrie Moore:
- Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens
- People Like That are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk
- from Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger:
- The Orphan
- Outside the Eastern Gate
- from Nine Stories by JD Salinger:
- A Perfect Day for a Bananafish
- For Esme: with Love & Squalor
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