Wonder Years with Chris and Wendy

My reading was up slightly from 2024, I read over 190 books this year, a few were books for middle grade children, so that padded the number but most were books for adults. I have picked my top ten fiction and nonfiction to share with you and hope that you will share what you have been reading with me.  FICTION Big Novels         The Wind Knows My Name   by Isabel Allende In telling this intertwining story of immigrants, Allende begins with a young Jewish boy who is sent alone to England when his family is being destroyed by the Nazis. Samuel is alone but for his violin. His life continues with music playing a large part in his happiness. Many years later, he is again alone but this time he is wealthy, divorced, and  living in California. His life intersects with Anita Diaz, a child refugee from Ed Salvador, separated from her mother. Allende’s prose is poetic and mesmerizing. She gives a voice to the thousands of immigrants wandering our world today. ...