The Library

Recently read/reading/love (Adult):

• Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr
• Wish You Were Here, Jodie Picoult (Christmas present–getting there…)
• Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
• Euphoria, Lily King (can’t recommend enough)
• Surfacing, Kathleen Jamie (she is so good for our planet)
• The Liar’s Club, Mary Karr
• Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (rereading due to Netflix series)
• Change Your Brain, Change Your Grades, Daniel G. Amen (I have a kid)
• The Library Book, Susan Orlean
• The Wonder of Boys, Michael Gurion (I have a boy)
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Maria Semple (instant forever-favorite)
• Sea Wife, Amity Gaige (10 stars)
• The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson (nightstand staple)
• The Ocean World, Jacques Cousteau (reading in perpetuity)
• Anything Kaui Hart Hemmings
• Anything Eowyn Ivey
• Louise Penny Gamache (do not read on an empty stomach)

Recently read/reading/love (Kidlit/YA)

• The Pendragon series (we are embarking on this series for Family Book Club)
• Hide and Seeker, Daka Hermon (so good!!!)
•  The Mermaid and the Bear, Ailish Sinclair
• The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, Adrianna Cuevas
•  Forever, Rick Riordan
• The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
• The Jamie Drake Equation, Christopher Edge
• The Midnight War Of Mateo Martinez, Robin Yardi
• Destiny, Rewritten, Kathryn Fitzmaurice
• Everything Rebecca Stead
• Everything Gary Schmidt
• Everything Pullman. Of course.
• And everything Zilpha Keatley Snyder (RIP)

Poetry:

• RIP Mary Oliver. You helped.
•  Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith
• Blud, Rachel McKibbens
• The Traps, Louise Mathias
• The Glimmering Room, Cynthia Cruz
• Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds
• Randall Jarrell, The Woman At The Washington Zoo
• Black Hope, Marsha de la O
• Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, Dianne Seuss (title poem a mindblower)
• Glass Town, Lisa Russ Spaar
• Everything Amy Gerstler
• Sarah Hannah (RIP)

Music

• Tame Impala
• Lord Huron
• Bent
• Neko Case
• MC Yogi (Elephant Power)
• Brian Eno (airport, Apollo, installations, etc)
• Adele
• Florence And The Machine
• Patty Griffin
• Indigo Girls (follow on Facebook)
• Bjork
• Cheryl Crow
• Courtyard Hounds
• Elbow
• Fleet Foxes