“She has big brown eyes, a gift for climbing trees, porch railings, and rock walls, and an insanely vexing habit of mixing up potions and leaving them all around the house to become murky jars of pond water and expensive wasted spices. Her pixie cut has grown out in quarantine into a sort of surfer-boy cut. I once asked her to invent the worst name in the world and her answer, almost immediately, was “Pubert Squelch.“
Cheating a tiny bit on Day 2 of the #12booksof2022, but I couldn't include one without the other.
My favorite February read was "Alone Together", edited by Jennifer Haupt, and although it took me a while to complete due to its anthology format, it was still a very worthwhile perspective on how folks coped with life during lockdown and with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Love Was Inside" gave a child's view of the same.
@Andrew65
Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of Covid-19 | 
