Double-Stacked Bookshelves

After reading the truly heartbreaking memoir by Mary Karr, The Liar's Club , I had to choose something light and easy.  Because of that, I present an excerpt from Jude Deveraux's The Scent of Jasmine : "Puzzled by what she'd said, Alex began to hurry across the fields, and Cay stayed with him.  After they'd been running in a zigzag pattern for nearly twenty minutes, Cay was tempted to remove the cloak and her gown and run in her underwear.  And if she did that, she'd use the Scotsman's knife to cut her corset strings.  Right now she needed to breathe deeply more than she needed a tiny waist." (46) Amen, Sister!!

Excerpt from Born on a Blue Day:  Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet "Neil did not find it difficult to accept me for who I was.  He too had been bullied at school and knew what it was like to be different from your peers.  Being a homebody himself he didn't mind that I preferred the quiet and security of home to the commotion of pubs and clubs.  Most important of all, he--like me--had reached a crossroads in his life and wasn't sure about the way forward.  Through our chance meeting online we had both of us discovered, to our mutual surprise and joy, that thing that had been missing from both our lives:  romantic love." (145) *Look for my review in the next week or so!