I've Never...

had time to read as much as I have this year as I have nursed the baby.  (Funny, because if you asked me how much spare time I have right now I would laugh in your face!!)  I was not much of a reader in my growing-up years.  In fact, I don't think I EVER finished a single assigned book in school until half way through college.  (I am embarrassed by that.  But my teachers should be even more embarrassed that they were so easily duped!!)  I remember giving an oral book report in about 5th grade on a book I had not finished.  I got about two-thirds of the way through the story--only as far as I had read--and concluded my report by saying, "and if you want to know what happens, you'll just have to read the book to find out!"  Anyway, fast forward a couple of decades.  Since January I have read some new and re-read some old books that have enriched my life and reminded me what a dope I was for not learning to love reading when I was much much younger.  I'd recommend almost all of them.

1-2-3 Magic (a parenting book thriller!)
Born to Run
Saving Graces (the only one I would not recommend)
Crossing to Safety (maybe my all-time favorite book)
Cutting for Stone
Charms for the Easy Life
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands (It really is a great book!)
I Capture the Castle
Seabiscuit (I cried, again.)
East of Eden
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
To Kill a Mockingbird (I cried, again.)
Babywise II
Number the Stars
The Help
Memoirs of a Geisha

Next up:
Ex Libris
Two-Part Invention
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Cry, the Beloved Country

Can't wean the baby yet.  I'm having too much fun.