By May
Posted: 2017/05/31 | Author: gr4c5 | Filed under: Early Review, Fiction, NonFiction | Tags: autobiography, books, california, Diana Preston, Dick Francis, Donald Collins, Early Review, Elizabeth Shepard, Fiction, HW Brands, Laurie Lee, librarything, lists, Mary Collins, memoir, Merle Miller, mystery, NonFiction, Robert Graves, series, Sue Grafton, transgender, world war i, world war ii |Leave a commentI thought May was going to be a disaster. The first two and a half weeks were nothing but rain and way cooler temps. I worried about my garden. I didn’t feel like running. It felt like a downward spiral. I ended up running only 28 miles and running away to Monhegan for a week so it ended better than it began. But…it’s still raining.
“…when May is rushing over you with desire to be part of the miracles you see in every hour” ~ Natalie Merchant, These are Days.
“I wanted to be there by May, at the latest. April is over. Can you tell me how long before I can be there?” ~ Natalie Merchant, Painted Desert.
Here are the books:
Fiction:
- H by Elizabeth Shepard (read in one day)
- Nerve by Dick Francis (read in two days)
- A Gay and Melancholy Sound by Merle Miller
Nonfiction:
- Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves
- Age of Gold by HW Brands
- Lusitania: an epic tragedy by Diana Preston
Series continuation:
- “Q” is for Quarry by Sue Grafton (finished the series)
- As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee (okay, so I didn’t know this was part of a trilogy).
Early Review for LibraryThing:
- At the Broken Places by Mary and Donald Collins