Wow! What a year it has been. My daughter got married. I lost my VW Beetle in a car accident and I had to learn how to navigate with a broken foot. Below is the list of the books that became: a great escape, or felt like a visit from an old friend, or made me laugh, or taught me something.
Daughters-in-law by Joanna Trollope
The Call by Yannick Murphy
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress
Emily Alone by Stewart O’Nan
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (my Young Adult book)
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
A Bad Day for Scandal by Sophie Littlefield
—Janet
Read it or Weep 