Travels with Trevor: March 2018

Mailbag!

We have left the building. However, we would still LOVE to hear from you. Send email! Even Trevor is checking his email these days. I'm on Facebook, too.

Thanks to all the superstars of mail who sent us the postal love over the past two years. In no particular order (let me know if I forgot you!):

Heather H., Grace, Lea, Ann + Lisa, Mom + Dad, the ladies in my book club individually and as a group (Michelle, Karen, Tanya, Teri, Rebecca, Janet, Darlene, Linda, Judy, Nancy, Helen, Mary, and Tammy et al), Grace, Gennie + John, Tanya, Phillis + Roy, Becky + Jim, Nora + Charlie, Colleen, John + Margaret, Matt + Jill, Larry + Barb, Heather N., Barb + Mike, Karen + Charlie, Bridgette + Jeff, Mike, Alice, Brooke, Morgan, Claire + Evan + Hoyt, Jonathan, Steve, Reese + Susan + Tommy + Natasha, Millie, Havaca, Ann, Lorraine, Kate, Roy + Alexis, Todd + Karen, Dale + Colin, Kerrie, Joe + Susan, Barb P., Central Mo RPCVs, Hal + Melba, Mark, Dave, Michelle G., the third graders at Benton, Hank + Katie, Eric C., Katie K., Jafar.

Thank you.

Reading!

Lisa: The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan)
Lisa: Something about an Italian family, I forget
Lisa: What the Dog Saw (Malcolm Gladwell) I want to be him when I grow up.
Lisa: The Bishop's Daughter (Honor Moore)
Lisa: Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
Lisa: Zorro (Isabel Allende)
Trevor: Finished Scramble for Africa! Three cheers for Trevor.
Lisa: Memory of Running (Ron McLarty)
Lisa: Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up (Norman Fischer)
Lisa: The Ha-Ha (Dave something)
Trevor: The Scramble for Africa
Lisa: 90 Minutes in Heaven (Don Piper) Heaven? I hope so.
Lisa: Forever (Pete Hamill) Would I want to live 300+ years? Maybe.
Lisa: Wicked (and abandoned) Not enough of a Wizard of Oz fan to appreciate this one.
Lisa: The Covenant (James Michener) South Africa makes a little more sense to me now.
Lisa: Life is So Good (George Dawson) A slave's grandson learns to read at 98.
Lisa: The Bonesetter's Daughter (Amy Tan) Does she keep writing the same book, or is it me?
Lisa: Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier) Way better than I would have guessed based on the red silk and foil cover!
Lisa: The last two Twilights
Lisa: Collapse (Jared Diamond)
Lisa: Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer + Annie Barrows) Interesting and sad historical fiction
Lisa: Sick Puppy (Carl Hiaasen)
Lisa: some Dan Brown fluff I forgot already
Lisa: The Air We Breathe (Andrea Bartlett)
Lisa: The Greatest of Marlys (Lynda Barry) Again- Always freaking amazing
Tre: USA trilogy (John Dos Pasos)
Lisa: New Moon (Stephanie Meyer)
Lisa: Twilight (Stephanie Meyer)
Lisa: Several Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency books
Lisa: Sailing Alone Around the Room (Billy Collins)
Lisa: Knitting Rules (Stephanie Pearl-McPhee)
Trevor: Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington
Lisa: Nature Girl (Carl Hiaasen) Entertaining
Lisa: Woman on the Edge of Time (Marge Piercy) Wow.
Lisa: The Gift of Fear: I love that stuff.
Lisa: Emma (Jane Austen): 60 pages, and I abandoned Austin forever. Except film adaptations! Sorry, Jane.
Lisa: Travels with Charley (John Steinbeck): I want to be him. Or Charley.
Lisa: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Barbara Kingsolver): Life changing
Lisa: Guns, Germs & Steel: I struggled through the last third.
Tre: Guns, Germs & Steel: He loved it
Lisa: Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight (Alexandra Fuller) Totally depressing but fascinating
Lisa: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Faidman) Gripping non-fiction
Lisa: The Book Thief (Marcus Zusak) WOW
Lisa: Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
Lisa: Jewel (Brett Lott) I had to abandon this one
Lisa: When You are Engulfed in Flames (David Sedaris) I am starting to be over him.
Tre: Dona Flor and her Two Husbands (sent by Michelle)
Lisa: A Walk Across America (Peter Jenkins) I want to walk across America!!!
Lisa: Oh My Stars (Lorna Landvick) Fluff
Lisa: Pledged (Alexandra Robbins) Why do people join sororities??
Lisa: A Spot of Bother (Mark Haddon) Wow. I claim this for book club in '10
Lisa: How to be good (Nick Hornby) I expect more from him
Lisa: Dear Exile (Peace Corps letters) Disturbing but fascinating
Tre: Out of Eden
Lisa: Bel Canto (Ann Patchett) Gripping!
Lisa: Under & Alone (McQueen) Excellent
Lisa: Middlesex (Eugenides)
Lisa: Size 12 is Not Fat (Meg Cabot) Bleh
Lisa: A Passage to India (Forester) So many parallels with colonial Zambia
Lisa: Dishwasher (Pete Jordan) Cameo by our hometown!
Lisa: The Unheard (Josh Swiller) Oh so disturbing. At least now I can put it in perspective
Lisa: Travels in Small-Town America (or something) (Bill Bryson) Rant
Lisa: Swimming to Antarctica (Lynn Something) Made me want to go swimming, though not amongst ice floes
Tre: Paul Bowles stories
Lots of Economists (they take awhile)
Lisa: Mrs. Pollifax Goes on Safari
Lisa: The Know-it All
Lots of crossword puzzles (we have tons!!)
Tre: Summer of '49 (about baseball)
Lots of New Yorkers
Lisa: Re-reading Poisonwood Bible

Travels with Trevor

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

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