A while ago I said that I was on a reading hiatus. What I realized after about ten days is that I really just needed to change the way I read. Three and a half years ago I began trying to get an education by reading a lot of young adult books. If you click on the link above this, in the header, for the Red Hair article, you can read more about that experiment. I finally reached a sort of burn-out, but it wasn’t books as much as it was the fact that it had become a bit of a chore. I was writing an index card about each book, as well as blogging on Need To Read and I began to hate that. I’ve started reading again, and now I’m just keeping a personal list of what I read (just for reference) and when I have five or ten titles, I’ll add them to Need To Read, but not really bother to blog much about them. In other words, I’m reading for fun again!

And that brings me to the title of this post. This book was recommended to me by…oh, gosh…I always forget who…but I’m about 99% sure that it was my friend Kim from Idaho/Wyoming. Anyway, I never post about a book before I finish, but I am so enamored of this book I cannot wait to tell you all about it. I can’t even say how much I love it so far without gushing. I love the first fifty pages anyway! It’s just so beautiful.

The blurb on the front is: One of the best, most charming, honest, hilarious and life-affirming books to appear in years. — The Plain Dealer. I don’t know who The Plain Dealer is, but so far this quote is dead on. Check this one out for sure. And if you’ve read the whole thing already, don’t give anything away in the comments section!