Novels of Jane Austen (minus Mansfield Park hah) Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Matilda by Roald Dahl One Long River of Song by Brian Doyle Middlemarch by George Eliot Ex Libris: Confessions of A Common Reader. Anne Fadiman Howard’s End is on the Landing: A Year of ReadingContinue reading “Summer of Rereading”
Author Archives: Andrea Y. Griffith
2020 Favorite Books
It’s been two years since I posted last (!) but I wanted to share my favorite books of 2020. I’ve always read a lot, and it’s now my job to read, but 2020 still shifted many of my habits and my time, freeing up the 3-5 evenings I used to be gone every week. IContinue reading “2020 Favorite Books”
2018 Favorite Books
Fiction: A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza follows Layla and Rafiq as they immigrate from India and make a life in America. They raise their children Hadia, Huda and Amar with all the opportunities that America affords while instilling in them a reverence for their Muslim faith. Mirza writes the relationships between the siblings soContinue reading “2018 Favorite Books”
Day 5: Weekends
Oof. So there goes my string of daily participation in the 100 Day Project. I think I will just number these until #100 – even if it’s not quite a daily thing. Weekends are hard. I have so many expectations – I am going to do it all! – but there’s still a lot goingContinue reading “Day 5: Weekends”
Day 4: End of the Week
It’s already the Friday of Spring Break. I went to the girls’ performance of Snew White at 3:15 and afterwards, I had surprise reservations at our local pottery-painting place. They love painting – Cate painted an arrow wall plaque and Jane painted a round box that will indubitably be full of “treasure.” I am soContinue reading “Day 4: End of the Week”
