woah, very belated reading update. in april i read:
unbroken, by laura hillenbrand (another audiobook, which i LOVED. seriously - read this book immediately! it's a true story - an amazing true story - made even better by how great a writer hillenbrand is. i never read her first book, seabiscuit, because i assumed that i didn't care about a story about a horse. but this woman could tell me a story about anything and i would love it, i'm pretty sure, so seabiscuit is next on my list.)
the orchardist, by amanda coplin (the parent of one of my students gave me a barnes and noble gift card this fall, and this is one of the books i bought. it's fiction; the premise: two pregnant girls appear at the house of an old man who owns an orchard. we learn more about his life story and theirs, and travel another 15 years into the future with the characters. it's set in washington state around the year 1900, and that setting really comes alive in the book. the pace is a little slow, but not necessarily in a bad way. i'd definitely recommend this book!)
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