I was surprised how much I liked this book. I started reading it at the doctors office one morning and spent the rest of the morning until I had to go to work finishing it. The characters are well developed and I felt like it did a good job portraying the life of a caregiver to a mentally handica...
“Hey.” She smiled, all bright and sunshiny. “We the first ones up?” I asked. It was almost nine. “Yup. I don’t know how long they stayed up after we went to bed. How you feeling? You look better.” She studied me intently, making me feel self-conscious. “Your color is better.” I adjusted my turban...
February brings a blizzard. Even though most students at Stone walk to class from dorms, the campus is closed and I have a weekend that stretches into five days. We lose water in the downstairs bathroom only, which has become Thomas’s bathroom. We can deal. I call Mark to get on his calendar, but...
With rain still falling, they'd spent a strangely domestic afternoon reading several Denver papers that Celeste received weekly through the U.S. mail. Then, while Celeste prepared an evening meal of pea soup and biscuits, Fox had read a book he'd brought with him. It was not unlike many evenings ...
I take Interstate 15 north. We’ll soon cross the northwest tip of Arizona and go into Utah. There’s less traffic now that we’re past the Vegas Strip and I relax a little bit. My Icee is delicious. It’s been so long since I’ve had one. Years. In my battle against the bulge, I gave up dessert, butt...
Should I go doon tae the dock and fetch the bookman, or do ye wish tae go yerself?" Gordon Fraser glanced up from beneath the brim of his Spanish leather hat, gardening shears poised in his gloved hand. "Early this month," he mused. "Aye." Angus's broad shovel-face remained inanimate. His hands, ...