Hello readers - here we are again at the end of another year.
Lots going on in our household - the night before Webster's graduation from his Babson MBA program, we found out we are expecting our first child! (EDD 1/25/13 - yes, soon!) Over the summer, Webster joined an early-stage startup based in Palo Alto and is loving it. I am leading a small team of technical marketing professionals at Dell and continue to learn a lot and thrive in the role. Lucy is doing great.
My parents continue to snowbird between NJ and Florida, and fortunately were safely in Florida during Hurricane Sandy. Jo lives in Manhattan and is an attending at NYU Hospital, which is finally re-opened since the hurricane. We lost my grandmother a few weeks ago and while it was sad, I reflected a lot on the 98 years she did live.
On to the books! I read 37 books this year, 10 of them non-fiction. Right now I have books on my library queue that won't come up until after the baby arrives - we'll see how that goes, but I have faith that I'll always be a reader. The baby has his/her first few books already - a set of my old Golden Books that my mom had saved, and The Giving Tree and Goodnight Moon from Webster's parents.
Omitted from the following list are three books that are part of series that I am reading: Voyager, WWW:Watch, and The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Top Fiction:
Say You're One of Them - touching set of unrelated short stories about children in Africa.
Reamde - for geeks only - huge adventure story about when real life and online life collide.
Fiction Runners-up:
QBVII - classic courtroom drama set in the shadows of the Holocaust
World Without End - long-awaited sequel to Pillars of the Earth
Unaccustomed Earth - short stories about people reconciling modern lives with Indian childhoods
Distant Hours and The Forgotten Garden - two books by Kate Morten that are well-written gothic-style mysteries
Lady Matador's Hotel - linked short stories all taking place in a hotel in an unnamed Latin American country
The Disappeared - story about a woman who falls in love with a man still haunted by his family's past in Cambodia
Buddha in the Attic - linked short stories about a set of women who are Japanese mail-order brides
My Life on a Plate - funny story about the mishaps of a slightly-overweight mom, reminiscent of Bridget Jones
My New American Life - the first few years of an Armenian woman's life in the United States, and her relationship with the Armenian community
The Love Wife - a family struggles to accept a new member of the family from China, as requested by the matriarch's dying wishes.
Top Nonfiction:
Pack of Two - Caroline Knapp's examination of her relationship with her dog.
Revolution - a woman's memoir of leaving college to join "the revolution" in the 1980's in Central America with her boyfriend.
Longitude - the story of how someone came up with an ingenious way to measure longitude at sea.
Happy 2013 to all!
Sheryl
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