WORDS ABOUT WORDS: Billy and Wellington

My uncles, Billy and Wellington Matthews. Aren't they dashing? Such characters, full of stories, poems, tears, and laughter.

BOOKS READ IN 2013

Jane, the fox & me by Fanny Britt & Isabelle Arsenault
ONE SUMMER America 1927 by Bill Bryson
TENNESSEE LANDSCAPE WITH BLIGHTED PINE by Jesse Graves
APOLOGY by Jon Pineda
FOUR BLOOD MOONS by John Hagee
THE MAN WHO SAWS US IN HALF by Ron Houchin
THE BONE SEASON by Samantha Shannon
THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE by Neil Gaiman
THE LIGHT IN THE RUINS by Chris Bohjalian
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES by Jean Giono
TRANSATLANTIC by Colum McCann
SHROEDER by Amity Gaige
LIFE AFTER LIFE by Kate Atkinson
IS THIS TOMORROW by Caroline Leavitt
GEOGRAPHY OF THE HEART by Fenton Johnson
THE FIRES OF SPRING by James A. Michener
THE GONE AND THE GOING AWAY by Maurice Manning
THE DIVINERS by Libba Bray
THE DRIFTERS by James A. Michener

BOOKS READ IN 2012

SABBATHS 2002 by Wendell Berry
KETTLE BOTTOM by Diane Gilliam Fisher
RAISING THE DEAD by Ron Rash
12 POEMS by Fredrick Smock
ANNIE by Dana Wildsmith
MUSEUM CROWS by Ron Houchin
TIGHT LINES by Jeff Daniel Marion
THE BELLS by Edgar A. Poe
LARGER BODIES THAN MINE by Marianne Worthington
Gruffudd ap Llywelyn: The Last King of Wales, c.1013-1063 by Michael and Sean Davies
THE POET'S WIFE SPEAKS by Mary Ellen Miller
TELL THE WOLVES I'M HOME by Carol Rifka Brunt
SHINE SHINE SHINE by Lydia Netzer
BEAUTIFUL RUINS by Jess Walter
A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME by Wiley Cash
THE EVENING HOUR by Carter Sickel
ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER by Seth Grahme-Smith
MAMA'S SHOES by Rebecca Elswick
THE WEIRD SISTERS by Eleanor Brown
RECRUITERS by Silas House
DEAD END IN NORVELT by Jack Gantos
PICTURES OF YOU by Caroline Leavitt
PURE by Julianna Baggott
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green
BOGMEADOW'S WISH by Terry Kay
THE GREATS OF CUTTERCANE by Terry Kay
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE by Jonathan Safran Foer
MOCKINGJAY by Suzanne Collins
CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins
BOOKS READ IN 2011
THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins
SAME SUN HERE by Silas House and Neela Vaswani
THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern
THE CAT'S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje
LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann
NIGHTWOODS by Charles Frazier
WE THE ANIMALS by Justin Torres
FALLING TOGETHER by Marisa De Los Santos
A GOOD HARD LOOK by Ann Napolitano
THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
GOOD NIGHT, MR. TOM by Michelle Magorian
THE DOVEKEEPERS by Alice Hoffman
THE NIGHT STRANGERS by Chris Bohjalian
THE BALLAD OF TOM DOOLEY by Sharyn McCrumb
MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN by Ransom Riggs
STATE OF WONDER by Ann Patchett
TOLSTOY AND THE PURPLE CHAIR My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
THE SATURDAY BIG TENT WEDDING PARTY by Alexander McCall Smith
THE TIGER'S WIFE by Tea Obreht
CHINABERRY by James Still edited by Silas House
TEA TIME FOR THE TRADITIONALLY BUILT by Alexander McCall Smith
THE ORACLE OF STAMBOUL by Michael David Lukas
THE HISTORIAN by Elizabeth Kostova
OHIO ANGELS by Harriet Scott Chessman
SABBATHS 1987-90 by Wendell Berry
SABBATHS 2002 by Wendell Berry
DRACULA by Bram Stoker
FAIR AND TENDER LADIES by Lee Smith
THE RED GARDEN by Alice Hoffman
THE SEVEN STAIRS by Stuart Brent
OUR FATHER WHO ARE IN A TREE by Judy Pascoe
THE CLOTHES THEY STOOD UP IN by Alan Bennett
THE OLD MAN WHO READ LOVE STORIES by Luis Sepulveda
GOOD THINGS I WISH YOU by A. Manette Ansay
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston
RESCUE by Anita Shreve
LITTLE BEE by Chris Cleave

2010 - BOOKS READ

TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis
BENDIGO SHAFTER by Louis L'Amour
CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER by Tom Franklin
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY by Richard Llewellyn
THE RECKONING by Sharon Kay Penman
NEW YORK by Edward Rutherfurd
SECRETS OF EDEN by Chris Bohjalian
BLOODROOT by Amy Greene
THE LITTLE STRANGER by Sarah Waters
THE JOURNAL KEEPER by Phyllis Theroux

2008 BOOKS

I'LL FLY AWAY by Dory Hudspeth
HOME by Marilynne Robinson
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Steig Larsson
UNPACKING THE BOXES by Donald Hall
THE LACE READER by Brunonia Barry
THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX by Maggie O'Farrell
SO BRAVE, YOUNG, AND HANDSOME by Leif Enger
SKELETONS at the FEAST by Chris Bohjalian
OLIVE KITTERIDGE by Elizabeth Strout
CALLING HOME by Janna McMahan
THE MIRACLE AT SPEEDY MOTORS by Alexander McCall Smith
A FALSE SENSE OF WELL BEING by Jeanne Braselton
MISSING MAY by Cynthia Rylant
THE WELL STRING by Noel Smith
O PIONEERS by Willa Cather
DREAMERS of the DAY by Mary Doria Russell
THE GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE by Alexander McCall Smith
RECAPITULATION by Wallace Stegner
STRANGE AS THIS WEATHER HAS BEEN by Ann Pancake
THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN by Wallace Stegner
ALL THE LITTLE LIVE THINGS by Wallace Stegner
IN THE SKIN OF A LION by Michael Ondaatje
THE MAGICIAN'S ASSISTANT by Ann Patchett
A PIGEON AND A BOY by Meir Shalev
A GRAIN OF WHEAT A Writer Begins by Clyde Robert Bulla
THE PATRON SAINT OF LIARS by Ann Patchett
THE SPECTATOR BIRD by Wallace Stegner

READ IN 2007 - Among Other Things

THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
by Ken Follett
A SHOOTING STAR
by Wallace Stegner
REMEMBERING LAUGHTER
by Wallace Stegner
THE TEACHER'S FUNERAL
by Richard Peck
THE POET OF TOLSTOY PARK
by Sonny Brewer
A SOUND LIKE THUNDER
by Sonny Brewer
CORMAC
by Sonny Brewer
CROSSING TO SAFETY
by Wallace Stegner
MISTER PIP
by Lloyd Jones
RUN
by Ann Patchett
THE BOOK OF MARIE
by Terry Kay
LETTER FROM POINT CLEAR
by Dennis McFarland
AWAY
by Amy Bloom
AN UNCOMMON READER
by Alan Bennett
THE ALMOST MOON
by Alice Sebold
SUITE FRANCAISE
by Irene Nemirovsky
THE RIVER WIFE
by Jonis Agee
WISH YOU WELL
by David Baldacci
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE
by Anderson Cooper
BETWEEN THE TIDES
by Patti Callahan Henry
DON'T YOU REMEMBER
by George Ella Lyon
DIVISADERO
by Michael Ondaatje
ANCHORED IN LOVE
by John Carter Cash
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
by Khaled Hosseini
ST. PATRICK'S BED
by Terence M. Green
A WITNESS TO LIFE
by Terence M. Green
DRIVING WITH THE DEAD
by Monica Holloway

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Billy and Wellington

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