I have visited the Round
House and the Red
House, reconstructed
Amelia and listened
to Lucca, gone down to the
ocean at the end of the lane and caught a glimpse of the light
between the oceans.
I
have seen shades of grey through
the eyes of a young Lithuanian refugee and a “red” in Jasper Fforde’s
color-separated world but not fifty shades of it.
I
listened to the sounds
of things falling and echoes
from the mountain and traveled through time in life after
life and in search of the shining girls.
I
spent time getting to know Colin Fischer and Asher Lev. The
Dodger, the
English girl, the
normal kid, the
giver, the
messenger, and the son
showed how roles can determine how lives are lived.
The
Burgess Boys and the Sisters
Brothers may live in different times but both sets of brothers are bound
more tightly by blood than they imagine. Flora and Ulysses, Blink
and Caution, Eleanor
and Park touched me with their friendships.
I laughed reading about the omens about end times
and cried reading about a funny story.
As always, books have opened my
eyes, touched my heart, and challenged my thinking. Here’s to another great
year in books in 2014!
