week 4: on books

                                            You know you've read a good

                                          book when you turn the last page

                            and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.  ~Paul Sweeney

I have loved to read for as long as I can remember. As a child, we would walk out of the library hardly being able to see over the top of the pile of books that we chose! I am so happy my mom instilled that love of reading in me. I am happy to say that my girls, ages 9 and 11 are the same way. This is their bookshelf (in my bedroom) behind me because we always plop in my bed at night to read together. Below is  a list of my favorites over the years: In no particular order....

• Still Alice
• Sarah's Key
• Those Who Save Us
• Kite Runner
• The Help
• A Reliable Wife
• The Book Thief
• Shelter Me
• The Usual Rules
• Catching Genius
• April & Oliver
• The Mountain Between Us
• Love Walked In
• An Accidental Light
• Girls in Trouble
• Love in the Present Tense
• Whistling in the Dark
• Belong to Me
• The Other Boelyn Girl
• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• The Memory Keepers Daughter
• The Poisonwood Bible
• The Ha-Ha
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Midwives
• The Cure for Grief
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• The Thirteenth Tale 
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