The only other sound's the sweep / Of easy winds and downy flake

WRC update: finished The History of Love (superb) and read The Sweet Far Thing (flawed, but absorbing). Hopefully I'll post a review of the former; not sure about the latter, as it's so well-known already. Added The Queen of Attolia, by Megan Whalen Turner, Anthem, by Ayn Rand, and In Beautiful Disguises, by Rajeev Balasubramanyam.

P.S. The photos are better big, especially the first one; you can see the snow falling if you click to enlarge.