Reading List

For all you children of the 1980's and 1990's, remember when Pizza Hut used to have a reading program called Book It?  Nothing motivated you to get through that summer reading list like a free personal pan pizza.

Even though I blog and I do avidly read other blogs, I'm still a lover of real, live, paper books.  I love the smell of them and the weight they have in your hands as you dive into a new adventure or sad story or collection of poems or stories.  Some say print is dead.  I say come visit my house.

Currently reading: Little Bee by Chris Cleave



Just put back on the shelf: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu (so good!)

Up next: Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta

Some of my favorites:
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha by Sarah Erdman
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
The entire No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander Mccall Smith
The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Relin
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller