This past year our family donated about 250 of my grandfather David Mudgett's paintings, drawings, sketches, and sketchbooks to the Dyer Arts Center at RIT/NTID - for display and study by RIT/NTID students, faculty, and the general public. We then worked with the Dyer team to curate an exhibit of his work. The show, called The Chromatic Weave of Nature, displays over 85 paintings, and will be up until mid-March. For those that are unable to travel to Rochester to see it, I've compiled photos...

1/5 star The Book of Love , by Kelly Link (2024) This should have been a short story. Instead it was SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE PAGES. I enjoyed Link's quirky book of short stories, Magic for Beginners - creative little dramas about witches and zombies, and a lot of interesting interactions between the world of the living and the world of the dead. I was curious to see what her first full length novel would bring. It did bring a lot more of that fuzzy line between life and death....

60 books this year: Authors - 32 Female, 16 Male, 2 Non-Binary 56 fiction, 4 non-fiction Years published ranging from 2016 - 2025, with two outliers from 1991 & 1998 (underlined books = links to my reviews) Top 5 The Book of Doors , by Gareth Brown The Girl in Red , by Christine Henry Lost Boy , by Christine Henry Those We Thought We Knew , by David Joy World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments , by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Loved it (highly recommend) Field...