“November comes / And November goes, / With the last red berries / And the first white snows. / With night coming early, / And dawn coming late, / And ice in the bucket / And frost by the gate.” ~Elizabeth Coatsworth
ACCENT: THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton
*Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize * This is a massive book — it clocks in at just under 900 pages — but you won’t notice it. It is so absorbing from the outset that you won’t realize you just devoured another 75 pages. On your lunch break. The story is deceptively simple.…