Recent Book Activity

My father read to me virtually every single night of my childhood. This created a deep love of reading in my soul. I read constantly, from many genres. I particularly love anything to do with food or cooking, suspense thrillers, literary fiction, classics, Southern fiction,and non-fiction; biographies and Christian subjects in particular.

My favorite book of all time is To Kill A Mockingbird. Other faves include Girl Meets God, Dear Daddy Long Legs, The Prince of Tides, any Harry Potter book, Empire Falls, The Time Traveller's Wife, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, She's Come Undone, the Oz series (all 14 of them!) Step Ball Change, and Wicked.

The worst books I ever read include Blowfly, The Lake House, Hannibal, The Lost World and The Wind Dancer.

Fave authors: Lauren Winner, Pat Conroy, Madeliene L'Engle, C.S.Lewis, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Kathy Reichs, John Irving, L. Frank Baum, Wally Lamb, J.K. Rowling, Tolkien and Shakespeare. (Okay, playwright & poet, not really an author, but still.)

Although I used to average 2 books a week, as the mother of a three year old and youth minister for two churches, I am lucky if I finish one book a month, so the unread tomes do stack up. My greatest book related feat since becoming a mother has been the fact that I completed the final Harry Potter book in one day, it arrived at about 10:00, I finished at 11:00, and my husband was working most of the day, so I was watching my little one! My second greatest book related feat was restoring the order to Thanksgiving dinner by propping up the sofa following the crash, with a stack of Shakespeare. Even with the one leg missing, it was perfectly suited for sitting.