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Friday, April 20, 2012

A Cute Ranger

Olivia is probably the cutest Ranger I've ever seen at a Federal monument! She gave us the introductory but brief history lesson/lecture at Fort Sumter after we got off the ferry and before we all left the area to explore more of the fort ourselves. Olivia is both well-trained and articulate.

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Books I Have Read in 2018

A Chef's Tour, Anthony Bourdain
A Dog's Purpose, Bruce Cameron
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles (second reading!
Blue Zones, Dan Buettner
Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War, Linsey Addario
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
The Dark Flood Rises, Margaret Drabble
The Light-Keepers Daughters, Jean E. Pendziwol
The Other Woman, Daniel Silva
The Quiet American, Graham Greene
The Temptation of Forgiveness, Donna Leon

2017 Books I Have Read

A Hollow Bone, Dawn Hogue
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
A Moveable Feast ( A Lonely Planet Travel Literature), ed. Don George
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, Al Franken
Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land, Walter R. Borneman
An Appeal to the World, Dalai Lama with Franz Alt
Black Diamond, Martin Walker
Camino Island, John Grisham
Dark Money, Jane Mayer
Earthly Remains, Donna Leon
Glass Houses, Louise Penny
House of Spies, Daniel Silva
Into the Water, Paula Hawkins
One Summer Day in Rome, Mark Lamprell
Open and Shut, David Rosenfelt
Querencia, Stephen Bodio
Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
The Dark Vineyard, Martin Walker
The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
The Lady in Gold, Anne Marie O'Connor
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware
The Zookeeper's Wife, Diane Ackerman
Tulip Fever, Deborah Maggach

2016: Books I Have Read

A Great Reckoning, Louise Penny
Born A Crime, Trevor Noah
Concussion / Jeanne Marie Laskas.
Eat, Sleep, Ride, Paul Howard
Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclists, Pete Jordan
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil, Deborah Rodriguez
Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly
Miracle at St. Anna, James McBride
Mykonos, Nancy Raeburn
North of the Tension Line, J.F. Riordan
Outlander, Diane Gabaldon
Paris In Love, Eloisa James
Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams
Runaway, Alice Munro
Sisters in Law, Linda Hirshman
The Audacity of Goats, J.F. Riordan
The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino
The Drifter, Nicholas Petrie
The German Girl, Armando Lucas Correa
The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and this Zigzag Life, Natalie Goldberg
The Map Thief, Michael Blanding
The Morning They Came For Us, Janine Di Giovanni
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs, Elaine Sciolino
The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End, Katie Roiphe
The Year of Liiving Biblically, A.J. Jacobs
Waters of Eternal Youth, Donna Leon
When Breathe Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, Wallace Stegner

2015: Books I Have Read

A Spool of Blue Thread, Ann Tyler
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
Black River, S.M. Hulse
Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
Dance Hall of the Dead, Tony Hillerman
Dead Wake, Erik Larson
Death Stalks Door County: A Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery, Patricia Skalka
Death at Gills Rock, Patricia Skalka
Falling in Love, Donna Leon
G.I. Brides, Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi
Gray Mountain, John Grisham
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War, Lynsey Addario
Kitchens of the Great Midwest, J. Ryan Stradal
Listening Woman, Tony Hillerman
Orhan's Inheritance, Aline Ohanesian
Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf
Rebecca, Du Maurier
Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built, Mark Russ Federman
Saving Simon, Jon Katz
Still Alice, Lisa Genova
The Blessing Way, Tony Hillerman
The Book of Killowen, Erin Hart
The Children Act, Ian McEwan
The Hummingbird, Stephen P Kiernan
The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander
The Long Way Home, Louise Penny
The Nature of the Beast, Louise Penney
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, Kate Andersen Brower
The Secret Place, Tana French
Unidentified Woman #15, David Housewright
We Know How This Ends: Living While Dying, Bruce H. Kramer with Cathy Wurzer
the Paris Key, Juliet Blackwell