I read a book recently called The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips.  It's a first novel.  I very much enjoyed the the style, the characters, and the way the author writes in the voices of the family in the novel.

Some examples of how the family members speak that I enjoyed:

"Sometimes I join them and we argue over which was Pop's favorite and who ( Read more... )

They had been asking if we could homeschool for a few weeks.  I am not sure if they would remember what their own motivation for asking was. I was very hesitant, not knowing too much about it.  We knew people who were homeschoolers, but I had not had a particular problem with public school in our town. I was not quite sure where their request came ( Read more... )

This review of the book Olive Kitteridge fairly sums up my own feelings about it.


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I just finished a book. It was an uncomplicated read but such a great story. same kind of different As me. is co-written by Ron Hall and Denver Moore and was recommended to me by my sister. The sub-title is "a modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together". My sister admits to occasional teary ( Read more... )

A rainy day in Virginia - spent taking a drive to look at the location of a couple of houses on the market (no realtor along yet), getting my haircut (she was very fast - which can be scary), and finalizing our taxes at last and FAFSA forms for my daughters. Productivity feels good, and I'm glad I will not need to do any taxes which involve clergy ( Read more... )