Photo by Petar Milosevic

Spring is here again, and there’s no better way to celebrate than by digging out that old bunny costume from underneath your bed and walking the streets in it smoking a carrot and handing out to random passersby plastic eggs with cryptic messages inside like “Why does Dolly always get to lick the spines on brackish mackerel night?”

Hmmm…not sure where that…

Hey, what’s the SECOND best way to celebrate Spring?

By reading a good book outdoors, of course.

Here’s what I’ve been reading recently under the emergent sun: the stunning allegorical YA novel Challenger Deep, by Neal Shusterman, about a teen’s battle with mental illness; Purity by Jonathan Franzen, about a millennial’s search for herself and her parents’ true identities in a hyper-connected world; and Nothing to Envy, by Barbara Demick, about successful defectors from North Korea who survived its brutal famine of the mid to late 1990’s.

So that’s me, what have YOU been reading these days?