This year, I haven't read nearly as many children's and YA books as usual, on account of the Jane Project.

( A list of Jane-related books here )

I am the happy owner of a number of poetry collections. Some are of the classics -- Walt Whitman, TS Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost. One is by Ted Kooser, the most recent past poet laureate. I'm startled to find I own five volumes by Billy Collins, but they all make me happy ( Read more... )