i'm off to oregon. back to blogging next monday.
1. look at pinky leon (he actually stares at himself in the mirror A LOT. unusual for his eyes to be closed like this. vain kitty.)
2. sun in SF
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From Orchards, Fields, and Gardens (cover watercolor and handwriting by Anna Emilia Laitinen)
Read/Am Reading
- Now reading: The Mistress's Daughter by A. M. Homes
- 5/13: May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes
- 4/13: Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
- 4/13: Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
- 4/13: Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Now reading: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- 3/13: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- 3/13: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
- 2/13: It All Turns on Affection by Wendell Berry
- 1/13: This is How You Lose Her by Junot DIaz
- 1/13: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiria*
- 1/13: A Place in Time by Wendell Berry*
- 12/12: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- 12/12: Home by Toni Morrison
- 12/12: Perfume by Patrick Suskind
- 12/12: The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer
- 11/12: The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich*
- 11/12: When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle
- 10/12: Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
- 9/12: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 9/12: Doc by Mary Doria Russell*
- 8/12: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- 7/12: Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout
- 7/12: A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
- 6/12: Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
- 6/12: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- 5/12: East of Eden by John Steinbeck*
- 4/12: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- 4/12: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
- 3/12: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
- 3/12: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward*
- 3/12: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers*
- 2/12: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 1/12: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett*
- 1/12: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
- 12/11: Remembering Smell by Bonnie Blodgett
- 11/11: What is the What by Dave Eggers*
- 11/11: A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer
- 10/11: Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
- 10/11: Straight Man by Richard Russo
- 10/11: Mohawk by Richard Russo
- 10/11: American Terroir by Rowan Jacobsen
- 9/11: The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
- 9/11: That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx*
- 9/11: The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
- 9/11: You Must Go and Win by Alina Simone
- 8/11: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck*
- 7/11: How We are Hungry by Dave Eggers
- 7/11: The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
- 7/11: A Place of My Own by Michael Pollan
- 6/11: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie*
- 5/11: War Dances by Sherman Alexie*
- 4/11: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- 3/11: The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball*
- 3/11: Just Kids by Patti Smith*
- 3/11: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen*
- 2/11: I Know You're Out There by Michael Beaumier
- Now reading: Farm Together Now by Amy Franceschini and Daniel Tucker
- 1/11: By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
- 1/11: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
- 12/10: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson*
- 11/10: The Seas by Samantha Hunt*
- 10/10: A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry*
- 10/10: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- 10/10: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- 9/10: The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
- 8/10: That Distant Land by Wendell Berry*
- 8/10: The Wild Birds by Wendell Berry*
- 8/10: Eaarth by Bill McKibben*
- 7/10: Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
- 7/10: Spoon Fed by Kim Severson
- 7/10: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen*
- 6/10: Diet for a Hot Planet by Anna Lappé
- 6/10: Uncertain Peril by Claire Hope Cummings*
- 6/10: Wisdom of the Last Farmer by David Mas Masumoto
- Still in progress: Farmer Jane by Temra Costa
- 5/10: The Women by T.C. Boyle
- 4/10: I am the Clay by Chaim Potok
- 4/10: The Book of Salt by Monique Truong*
- 3/10: Cheesemonger by Gordon Edgar
- 2/10: The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry*
- 2/10: Drenched by Marisa Matarazzo
- 2/10: Driftless by David Rhodes*
- 1/10: Watch With Me by Wendell Berry*
- 1/10: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- 1/10: A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
- 1/10: Snow by Orhan Pamuk
- 12/09: When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- 12/09: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- 12/09: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
- 12/09 Andy Catlett: Early Travels by Wendell Berry
- 11/09: Remembering by Wendell Berry
- 11/09: Fields of Plenty by Michael Ableman
- 11/09: Small Wonder by Barbara Kingslolver
- 11/09: Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry*
- 10/09: Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry
- 10/09: A World Lost by Wendell Berry
- 10/09: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry*
- 10/09: Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout*
- 10/09: Bringing it to the Table by Wendell Berry*
- 10/09: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout*
- 10/09: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays by Wendell Berry*
- 8/09: I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
- 8/09: The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
- 8/09: Deeply Rooted by Lisa Hamilton
- 8/09: A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
- 8/09: Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
- 7/09: The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
- 7/09: Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
- 7/09: Farm CIty by Novella Carpenter
- 7/09: A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher
- 6/09: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan*
- 6/09: I Remember by Joe Brainard
- 6/09: Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith*
- 6/09: The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
- 6/09: Saturday by Ian McEwan*
- 5/09: Hotel World by Ali Smith
- 5/09: The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
- 4/09: The Learners by Chip Kidd
- 4/09: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- 4/09: A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'engle
- 4/09: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- 4/09: Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
- 3/09: What Now? by Ann Patchett
- 3/09: A Mercy by Toni Morrison*
- 3/09: Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin*
- 2/09: Fruitless Fall by Rowan Jacobsen*
- 1/09: Memoir from Antproof Case by Mark Helprin
- 1/09: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- 1/09: The God of Small Things by Arundahti Roy
- 12/08: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- 12/08: Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva
- 11/08: The Worst Thing I've Done by Ursula Hegi
- 10/08: Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
- 10/08: Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed edited by Vandana Shiva
- 10/08: Run by Ann Patchett
- 9/08: Slow Food Nation by Carlo Petrini
- 8/08: Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
- 8/08: Plenty by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon*
- 8/08: Pink Harvest by Toni Mirosevich
- 7/08: The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan*
- 7/08: Little Heathens by Mildred Kalish
- 6/08: The Great Man by Kate Christensen
- 6:08: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
- 5/08: Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
- 5/08: The Accidental by Ali Smith
- 4/08: Orlando by Virginia Wolfe
- 4/08: The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
- 3/08: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby*
- 3/08: Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
- 2/08: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 1/08: All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones*
- 1/08: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton*
- 1/08: The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
- 12/07: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- 12/07: No one Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
- 11/07: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- 11/07: My Less Than Secret Life by Jonathan Ames
- 11/07: The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte
- 11/07: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- 10/07: Flight by Sherman Alexie
- 10/07: Oh The Glory Of It All by Sean Wilsey
- 9/07: Evening by Susan Minot
- 9/07: Everybody Into the Pool by Beth Lisick
- 8/07: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- 8/07: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (again)
- 8/07: Camilla by Madeleine L'Engle
- 7/07: The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
- 7/07: The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1 by Anais Nin
- 7/07: Last Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
- 6/07: Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
- 6/07: Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
- 6/07: The Authograph Man by Zadie Smith
- 6/07: John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
- 5/07: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 5/07: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
- 4/07: The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
- 3/07: The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
- 3/07: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
- taking a break. it's long: Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
- 12/06: The Darling by Russell Banks
- 12/06: The Confessions of Max Tivoli
- 12/06: The Chosen by Chaim Potok*
- 11/06: The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
- 11/06: Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott
- 10/06: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer**
- 10/06: Tori Amos Piece by Piece by Tori Amos and Ann Powers
- 10/06: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- 9/06: Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
- 9/06: The Sea by John Banville
- 9/06: The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall*
- 8/06: Godspeed by Lynn Breedlove
- 8/06: The Known World by Edward P. Jones**
- 6/06: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer*
- 6/06: Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
- 5/06: Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson
- 4/06: The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
- 4/06: The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale
- 3/06: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- 2/06: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- 1/06: A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson
- 1/06: The Fourth Hand by John Irving
- 12/05: A Widow for One Year by John Irving
- 12/05: Cruddy by Lynda Barry
- 11/05: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
- 11/05: The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
- 10/05: East is East by T.C. Boyle
- 9/05: Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody*
- 9/05: Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon by William Saroyan
- 8/05: You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
- 8/05: Riven Rock by T.C. Boyle
- 7/05: latest Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
- 7/05: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- 6/05: Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
- 6/05: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
- 6/05: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 6/05: Unless by Carol Shields
- 5/05: Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
- 5/05: Woman an Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
- 4/05: Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
- 2/05: Four Souls by Louise Erdrich
- 1/05: Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
- 1/05: Joe Jones by Ann Lammott
- 12/04: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- 12/04: What Night Brings by Carla Trujillo
- 11/04: Hoochie Mama The Other White Meat by Erika Lopez
- 11/04: They Call Me Mad Dog by Erika Lopez
- 11/04: Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
- 11/04: Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok**
- 10/04: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
- 10/04: Folly by Laurie King
- 9/04: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers*
4 comments:
have a great trip... love the photos!
You look absolutely lovely! Have a wonderful trip! I look forward to your return!!
Look how cute you are with your peek a boo heels and orange skirt. You kind of match the picture you are showing beneath you!
That last photo is very Mark Rothko-esque. Intentional?
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