The middle of winter is my least favorite time of year. Groundhog’s Day is supposed to indicate if we’ll have an early spring, but I am a skeptic. Then Lent begins. There’s a bright spot for Valentine’s Day, but it only lasts for 24 hours. While the winter feels a little bland and boring to me, I have found a partial solution to my case of winter blahs…
A couple of coworkers and I have set a goal to read all the Gateway Award nominees for 2013-2014. We just finished reading Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetus. It is an amazing historical fiction book. It is set in Lithuania in the early 1940s and it follows 15-year-old Lina as she and her family are taken by Soviets and forced into labor camps.
