Holiday shopping today? Well, if you want to give someone one of my novels with a personal inscription, simply visit in-person or online or call the Vermont Book Shop (802 388-2061) in Middlebury, VT or Phoenix Books in Burlington, VT (802 448-3350). They ship and my penmanship is fantastic. Thanks, friends!
pickThis really lovely book is by a woman who has been a shepherdess for over 20 years focusing on pastoralism in Vermont. It‘s meditative and delves into her deep connection with the land. It reminds me totally of Raising Hare. I loved it.
#NBAlonglist, nonfiction
pickDiana Brewer isn‘t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer.
How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia.
Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers
so-soThis was an amusing mystery in which the very accomplished detective and the MC, the new assistant, head to Vermont to see if a wealthy matriarch actually did commit suicide as the police had ruled, or if she had been murdered. I might continue the series (but I think the Finlay Donovan hapless detective books are better)…. Mostly because the Poirot-style ending reveal just went on way too long.
pickA few days after going to the Alison Bechdel exhibition in Basel, I found this one in our local library! So I just had to get it and it was so good! Even though familiar with the Bechdel Test, this was my first book to read. I love her art style, so many details! Love the humor, but also the depth. From now on I'm only going to use the word Schmamazon for the big A 😂
pickOne thing I love about Alison‘s books are the drawings. For example, City Hall is perfectly captured here. I can‘t tell you how many times I‘ve walked up and down those stairs during my many years of working there and when Bernie was Mayor the lights in the building were always lit up. This book covers many topics - goat rearing, politics, polyamory (which made me chuckle), Alison‘s constant questioning and concerns. It was a delight.
Just reading Spent by Alison Bechdel and this one made me laugh. It might just get me through the day 🐐
