Time to Look Back

... yes, another year gone

This time of year is one of my favorites (the first of May being another top contender), but it’s also challenging for its long nights and the frenzy that happens with the holidays.

We’ve just passed the winter solstice, on Sunday, with its shortest day, so I tell myself, we’re already headed back toward spring… In the meantime, I light candles in the evenings and take morning walks in the snow. If the weather is chilly, I’m also fond of wrapping up in a blanket on the couch to read.

The cool pattern of ice along the Delaware Canal.

As many others do in December, I take stock of what happened over the last twelve months.

In books, some of favorite reads this year included:

• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

• I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

• The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

• Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda

In movies, here are a few (old and new) I enjoyed:

• Vengeance Most Fowl – yes, I’m a sucker for Wallace and Gromit

• Six Triple Eight

• Locke

• After Yang

• Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

In my own work, my paranormal thriller, Scream of the Silent Sun, released in April, and my latest short story was published in the anthology A Right Cozy Historical Crime in October.

I’m also thrilled that another of my holiday audio stories will run on WPRB’s 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show this week.

(Looking ahead, I am delighted to be part of the January Author Expo at the Doylestown Bookshop on Jan. 24.)

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Wishing you happy holidays –

Dianna