Back to the Books

It's that time of year, the big yellow school buses are running and I find myself checking the clocks, once again, before I run any quick errands to avoid getting stuck behind them or in a traffic jam resulting from carpool traffic snaking its way out onto the streets around the local schools. This time of year always makes me smile and feel a bit nostalgic at the same time. Our grands are in eighth, sixth (2) and fourth grades this year! Anyway, I digress... remember those "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" essays that were assigned at the beginning of every school year? In that vein: these three books consumed my last six to eight weeks. Knighton's book: Leave Only Footprints is nonfiction and, as a National Park lover, I thoroughly enjoyed his firsthand account of his travels to them. Backman's endearing fictional characters from his native Sweden grab me and pull me in, the author is a master of character development and storytelling, I just loved these two novels. It's time for me to hit the books again and get back to the library for something new. 

What's on your bedside table right now?

Life is Good!