After a nearly-eternal February, March just flew right past me.  Scroll all the way to the bottom if you want to see knitting pictures.  Library books have asterisks. Eudora Welty on William Faulkner .* Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age , Fiona Maddocks.* The Bean Trees , Barbara Kingsolver.* The Fifth Witness , Michael Connelly. The Black Bird Oracle , Deborah Harkness.* Summer on the Island , Brenda Novak. A New Song , Jan Karon. The Wedding People , Alison Espach. March was a month for either finishing a book I'd been stuck in forever or burning through a book in under 2 days. Let's just get started. The collection of letters and essays Eudora Welty wrote to/about William Faulkner just nearly made me want to read William Faulkner for the first time ever.  I read a lot of Faulkner in college because it was assigned to me, but I usually hated it.  I became an English major because I liked reading, basically. But having to read something and then write about ...