Meanderings and Muses: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays From the Barleys

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays From the Barleys

Happy Wishes for this Holiday Season

“Christmas Bells” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I heard the bells on Christmas Day

Their old, familiar carols play,

And wild and sweet

The words repeat

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

2 comments:

Lesa said...: I love the family in this picture. I see, though, that you all had to wear scarves in order to get Annabelle to participate. Merry Christmas, Donald, Kaye, & Annabelle! Love, Lesa; December 7, 2022 at 8:57 AM
Kaye Wilkinson Barley - Meanderings and Muses said...: Thank you, Gram!

Here: http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2020/12/what-did-women-like-in-2020.html

And

Here: http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2021/12/what-did-women-like-in-2021.html; December 10, 2022 at 2:12 PM

Books Read

Every year I promise myself I'm going to keep a log of books I'm reading. And I immediately forget. Then I remember again, but only after I've already read a few books, but can't be sure I'll remember them all and so - - can't bring myself to start the list. It's sort of like missing the first 30 minutes of a movie. I just can't watch it if I've missed the beginning. And being the anal ol' soul I am, I can't bring myself to start a list if I can't be sure it's going to be a complete one. So. I decided to keep a list during 2010 and found it to be a fun thing. Especially for a compulsive list-maker like myself.

You can see my 2010 list here -

http://meanderingsandmuses.blogspot.com/2010/12/books-read-during-2010.html

And, you can see my 2011 list here -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2011/12/books-read-during-2011.html

And here's my 2012 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2013/01/books-read-in-2012.html

And, my 2013 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2013/12/books-read-duing-2013.html

And, my 2014 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2014/12/books-read-in-2014.html

And, my 2015 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2015/12/books-read-in-2015_14.html

And, my 2016 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2016/12/books-read-during-2016.html

And, my 2017 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2017/12/books-read-during-2017.html

And, my 2018 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2018/12/books-i-read-in-2018.html

And, my 2019 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2019/12/books-i-read-in-2019.html

And, my 2020 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2020/07/books-read-in-2020.html

And, my 2021 list - http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2021/12/books-i-read-in-2021.html

And, my 2022 list - http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2022/12/books-i-read-in-2022.html

Books Read in 2023

The Magical Summer of Miranda Stone by A.D. Brazeau *
The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan
What Never Happened A Thriller by Rachel Howzell Hall
Our Place on the Island by Erika Montgomery *
Looking for Clara by Simona Grossi
A Boat on the Ocean by Simona Grossi
The Little Red French Door by Simona Grossi
Take the Long Way Home by Rochelle Alers *
Wedding of the Season by Lauren Edmondson
Standing in the Shadows by Peter Robinson
The Block Party by Jamie Day
Sally Brady's Italian Adventure by Christina Lynch *
The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman *
My Magnolia Summer by Victoria Benton Frank
All the Days of Summer by Nancy Thayer *
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges *
Prom Mom by Laura Lippman *
I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
In a Hard Wind A McKenzie Novel by David Housewright *
Identity by Nora Roberts **
The Spectacular by Fiona Davis *
The Dark Edge of Night by Mark Pryor
The Friday Night Club by Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman and M. J. Rose *
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus **
The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand *
The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman
Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding *
The Paris Mystery by Kirsty Manning *
Elsie de Wolfe's Paris: Frivolity Before the Storm by Charlie Scheips
The Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George
The Heirloom Inn by Olivia Miles
The Love Scribe by Amy Meyerson *
Time's Undoing by Cheryl A. Head
Justice Is Served A Tale of Scallops, the Law, and Cooking for RBG by Leslie Karst *
China by Edward Rutherfurd *
The Bird Hotel by Joyce Maynard ***
The Darlings by Hannah McKinnon
From Dust to Stardust by Kathleen Rooney **
Summer Roommates by Holly Chamberlin
An American Beauty by Shana Abe *
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
House of Clouds by K. L. Gleeson
The River Runs South by Audrey Ingram *
A Likely Story by Leigh McMullan Abramson *
The Thing About Home by Rhonda McKnight * *
All the Leaves Are Brown How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart by Scott G. Shea *
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay ***
A Killing of Innocents by Deborah Crombie *
What Became of Magic by Paige Crutcher
Halfway to You by Jennifer Gold *
A Paris Odyssey by Axel Forrester * *
At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber * *
Sleepless City by Reed Farrel Coleman * * **
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright * *
Homecoming by Kate Morton * * *
The Secret of FBI File 100-3-116 by Mark de Castrique **
Émilienne A Novel of Belle Epoque Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen **
The Truth Against the World by David Corbett ** **
The Summer of Fall by Laura Lippman *
The Book of Delights, Essays by Ross Gay ***
The Beach House by Jane Green *
The Measure of Silence by Elizabeth Langston * *
Silence of the Seamaid by Ann Medlock ****
Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews **
Summer on the French Riviera by Jennifer Bohnet
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane * **
We Are Family by Beth Moran
The Beginning of Everything by Jackie Fraser *
Deliver Me from Nowhere by Warren Zanes * *
Wildwood Magic by Willa Reece *
The Engagement Party by Finley Turner
The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger ***
Day by Michael Cunningham
The Tiffany Girls by Shelley Noble *
The Chateau by Jaclyn Goldis * *
California Golden by Melanie Benjamin
Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy * * * * *
All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby * * * **
Lost Hours by Paige Shelton
Thirty Days in Paris by Veronica Henry *
The Awakening by Nora Roberts (re-read)
The Becoming by Nora Roberts (re-read)
The Choice by Nora Roberts (re-read)
Inheritance by Nora Roberts *****
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins **
Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger
Who to Believe by Edwin Hill **
Diva by Daisy Goodwin * *
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods ***
The Still Point by Tammy Greenwood * *
Brothers and Sisters by Alan Paul *
Summer on Sag Harbor by Sunny Hostin *
The Life She Wanted by Anita Abriel
A December to Remember by Jenny Bayliss **
I Am Ayah by Donna Hill *
Yes, Chef by Waitlyn Andrews ***
Snowed in for Christmas by Jacqueline Snowe
Windfallen by JoJo Moyes *
Light on Bone by Kathryn Lasky * *
The Trouble with You by Ellen Feldman * * * *
Windfall by Wendy Corsi Staub
High Tides and Summer Skies by Jennifer Bohnet
Call the Canaries Home by Laura Barrow
The Women by Kristin Hannah *****
The Magic All Around by Jennifer Moorman ***
Fall by Tracy Clark **
Where Butterflies Wander by Suzanne Redfearn ***
The Lioness of Boston by Emily Franklin ***
A Slice of Courage Quiche by Jennifer Moorman
An Upper West Side Story by Rachel Cullen
The Starfish Sisters by Barbara O'Neal
Redwood Court by DeLana R. A. Dameron
The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen
One Christmas Eve by Shari Low ****
The Masters by Jann S. Wenner ****
The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
Winter in New York by Josie Silver ****
One Night on the Island by Josie Silver ****
A Hitch in Time by Christopher Hitchens ***
Escape to Starshine Cove by Debbie Johnson ***
Wellness by Nathan Hill
The Weekend Retreat by Tara Laskowski
Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
The Guest by B. A. Paris
Goodbye Earl by Leesa Cross-Smith ***
Don't Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino *****
Fleetwood Mac: Everywhere by Mike Evans
Payback in Death by J. D. Robb *****
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl ***
Take Me Home by Beth Moran
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams ****
The Beautiful People by Michelle Gable
The Hunter by Tana French
After Annie by Anna Quindlen ****
The Memory of Lavender and Sage by Aimie K. Runyan *****
John Lewis by Raymond Arsenault ****
Now Lila Knows by Elizabeth Nunez
The Philadelphia Heiress by Anita Abriel
One Wrong Word by Hank Phillippi Ryan ***
The Collector by Nora Roberts ***
The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R. King ****
Secrets of Starshine Cove by Debbie Johnson ****
Christmas with the Lords by Hannah Langdon ****
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
A Murder Most French by Colleen Cambridge
The Christmas Postcards by Karen Swan ****
Silent Girl by M. L. Rose

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