FRIDAY 03 FEBRUARY, 2012
Today I celebrate my father's birthday (though on Sunday his surprise adventure kicks in). I call my father Forever Young because he is-still out there sharing his business expertise, still hopping on planes to visit places as distant as Peru and (soon) Israel, still driving around rural...
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Coming Through Slaughter
by Michael Ondaatje
Bone
by Fae-Myenne Ng
The Wild Braid
by Stanley Kunitz
Mariette in Ecstasy
by Ron Hansen
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Weddings and Wakes
Alice McDermott
Zoli
Colum McCann
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Lazarus Project
Aleksandar Hemon
