Best Book Ever. Serious.

Ashamedly, I just read this book for the FIRST time. If you have never read it or you haven’t read it since someone forced you to in high school. Pick it up. Read it now. You will not regret it.

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.  It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.  You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”~Harper Lee,To Kill a Mockingbird, spoken by the character Atticus

Here is Gregory Peck portraying Atticus Finch in the movie adaptation. Isn’t he a dream? Sigh.

“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.  As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”  ~Harper Lee,To Kill a Mockingbird, spoken by the character Atticus

Please. Please read this book.

Thanks.

xo.

My One True Love

Books. Oh how I love thee. I do not think there is much better in life than getting completely lost in a story. I have been tearing through books this summer. The biggest surprise hit for me has been this book, The Pillars of the Earth.

I know I’m about 20 years behind in discovering this gem, but when it came out in 1989 I was far too concerned about getting the perfect tight roll on my jeans. I could not be concerned with a 900+ page book about building a cathedral in the 1800s. I know it sounds boring, but I assure you… It. Is. Not.

Ken Follett is fictional master.  Every chapter has me flipping pages as fast as I can to find out what happens to Tom Builder, Prior Philip, and Aliena. There is violence, love, fear, hope, and triumph in every chapter. I haven’t quite finished it, and I’m dreading the end of the story because I will miss my character friends. Does that make me a crazy person?

If you are like me and have somehow missed this book, pick it up. You will not regret it. I promise.

Over and out-

Book Nerd