JANUARY READS

[rapa]

The holidays are now history so is everyone finding time to settle down with a good book?

I'm reading Ann Patchett's STATE OF WONDER and am finding it a page-turner. Nothing like a trip to the Amazon jungle to pique my interest.  Also medical research intigue which fascinates me. Loved Patchett's BEL CANTO and this is just as good!

Douglas Preston's TWO GRAVES is enroute to library for me.

What are you reading now???????

[Ursula]

I read The Life of Pi in January.  It was not what I expected, but I found it to be a delightful story and recommend it to any who have not read it yet.  I have been told the movie is also excellent. 

I have moved on to reading a collection of short stories, actually The Best American Short Stories of 2011, as edited by Geraldine Brooks, a favorite author.

[Mandy Muffin]

February Reads:  I have fished the Black Like Me 50th Anniversary Edition which has a lot of photos, interviews and history of the movement toward desegregation of the South.  http://www.amazon.com/Black-Like-50th-Anniversary-Edition/dp/045123...

I stumbled upon a series that examines the lives of young ladies who were into the textile industry in the 19th century.  My mother worked in the New England mills as a girl and told many stories of how things were in the mills in her time.  I grew up in a textile town and worked in the mills some my self.  It is called "Bells of Lowell."  I am now into the first book, "Daughter of the Loom"   http://www.traciepeterson.com/bellsoflowell.html