Summer Reading

I don't regularly take the time to read.  There.  I said it.  I'm too tired, too busy, too lazy to read.  I am pretty good about borrowing, buying, and getting books.  And I'm not too bad at starting books.  But really reading books, from cover to cover, understanding, and not college-text-book skimming books, now that's a rarity.  Unless it's summertime!  Several summers ago I decided I would make it my goal to read one book, a classic, one I'd never read, so I chose To Kill A Mockingbird.  I loved it!  So each summer I make a concentrated effort to read one classic.  A couple years ago I read Jayne Eyre.  I asked for a copy for my July birthday, and finished it...by Christmas!  I did finish it, though.  And loved it.  Thought maybe I would read it again sometime when I have another six months.

So this summer I have made another concentrated effort to read.

I finished this book this morning.  I might have considered the two-hour investment a waste if I hadn't been sitting on the back porch, watching the sunrise, basking in it's warm, healthy-vitamin-D glow.  I picked this up at Sacs, drawn to it by the cover.  And after reading it, I really don't know what the cover has to do with the story.  I was disappointed, but read 'til the end. 

  I read this book because:

A.  It's apparently very popular

B.  Grace had read it and loved it.

C.  It has a red cover with the word "love" on it; two of my favorite things.

It was a easy read, with great encouragement in living a life of love and service.  Something we could all use a little more of.

I have already started my next book.

Stay tuned.

Oh, and any suggestions for my Summer Classic choice?