Reading and on to January!

This is my new winter sweater, I've want one like it for ages.

Beautiful eggs.


Usually around this time I really look forward to making a post about all the books I’ve read over the past year, but this year I left my book that I write all that down in back in Portland! Sad! I can tell you I read fifty or more, and I read a LOT of Murakami. In fact I read Wind Up Bird Chronicle and then went on to read all his other novels and short story books except maybe his first two! I love them all I pretty much inhaled them. I also read what has become one of my favorite books of all time I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith, it is so funny and cozy and sad and has the most wonderful characters, I got so attached I didn’t want the book to end. I highly recommend it to everyone! I also made it though my first Dickens novel since high school. I don’t know why it took me so long, I really wanted to, but I would start a book and things would be going on that made it really hard to give it my full attention and I would fail after a few chapters! But I made it though The Pickwick Papers (which I actually decided to read after they kept talking about it in Cranford, which I read earlier), and thoroughly enjoyed it, so funny.

We’re coming onto my least favorite time of year, the days may be getting a little longer but January/February are my personal Darkest months. They are the months when I usually start to seriously question my value as a human being and I also get dissatisfied to the point of tears with all my clothing and furniture. Maybe things will be better since I’ll be in Portland this year. I’m planning on filling the apartment with those tiny daffodils when I get back and then going to Powell’s to stock up on some good books to get me though it!