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Edinburgh, UK
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Books of 2016

Books I read last year, in order of when I read them:

Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson

The Thread by Victoria Hislop

Burial Rights by Hannah Kent

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safron Foer

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

The Signature of all Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

Cooked by Michael Pollan

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

A Confederacy of Dunces by Jon Kennedy Toole

The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

The Story of my Boyhood and Youth by John Muir

The Yosemite by John Muir

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life by Roald Dahl

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Top 5 (in no particular order and excluding the LOTR trilogy!): Americanah, Fates and Furies, A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Story of my Boyhood and Youth, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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Books of 2015

What I read last year, in order of when I read them:

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Mrs. de Winter by Susan Hill

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen

The Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion

The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman

My Life in France by Julia Child

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Outlander by Diana Galbandian

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

Top 5 (in no particular order): All the Light We Cannot See, My Life in France, Life After Life, The Girl on the Train, The Bell Jar

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Photo from rom today's walk south of Broad, Charleston, SC

This Christmas marked many firsts, not the least of which meant celebrating the season together in our cozy home, creating new traditions for our small family to look forward to every year.

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Map of the Charleston Harbor, 1861.

From the Digital Archives of the South Caroliniana Library at The University of South Carolina

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