Happy New Year!

There's nothing quite so inspiring as the dawn of a new year.
This year will be the last one I live in my 40s, and I can only hope it will be a strong and productive and happy one.

My New Year's Eve was good - low key and spent with friends.
Today I snuggled in and read my first book of the year - James Lee Burke's Swan Peak. It's the first James Lee Burke that I've read, though it is his latest book. I liked it - but I have to say that I felt as if I was coming in to the show at intermission. Even though I grew up in the south, much of his colloquial language was beyond me and left me feeling like an outsider.

This is exactly why I often start reading new authors at the beginning - or chronologically at the beginning anyway.

What do we all expect for this year?
What are our new year's resolutions?
What do we hope to get from ourselves?

I am still thinking about it all, and will let you know :)

Happy!!!