It is Easter break, and I have been busy reading!
Book # 7 of 2010 is...
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
by Wallace Stegner
I finally finished this saga! It was a good story and well told...and it spanned a woman's whole lifetime. She lived through a rough childhood, a mis-matched marriage, praire droughts, poverty, a bootlegging husband, wealth, the Great Depression, poverty again, raised two boys, buried one...and all the while she is full of love and a source of strength for her family. This was a good, but long, book.
Book #8 of 2010 is...
A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle
THIS BOOK WAS WONDERFUL! In fact I read it in one day (it's only 207 pages). This is a book that is so full of juicy descriptions of French food that it made me HUNGRY while read it. It is about a man and his wife who realize their dream by moving to a 200 year old farmhouse in Provence, France and how they learn to live the simple country life among small town characters who live by the seasons and not by days. This is a book everyone should read.
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