Great Reads

There has been one good thing to come out of this endless winter. After several months of being unable to concentrate (for a variety of reasons) I've suddenly been able to read again (as in, read a book all the way through). This not only is thrilling for me but for our interlibrary loan librarian who I imagine got really tired of processing all my requests. I'd order up several books, try them out, not be able to read them, and then return them almost as quickly as I'd borrowed them, all unread, piles of them.

Then I came upon "The White Tiger" and everything changed. The novel won this year's Booker prize so of course I was so grateful I decided to see if other Booker Prizers would be as riveting. First, though, I read the first Rex Stout Nero Wolfe mystery,"Fer De Lance;" "The Killing Time," an Ellen Hart mystery; the wonderful young adult novel (also a prize winner), "Little Brother," by Cory Doctorow; and then and then the riveting 1985 Booker Prize Winner, "The Bone People," by Keri Hulme. This book makes my all-time top five list. I've now decided to visit New Zealand. Which is unsettling perhaps to one of the other big readers in the house. Not David who wouldn't come to New Zealand anyway because he worries about the earthquakes, but Pierre who feels more allegiance to another country in that part of the world.

Here he is rereading his favorite book, "The Little Red Hen." He also owns "The Pokey Little Puppy" which was a big favorite of mine lo those many years ago.