Introduction and Invitation

Do you love to read?  Would you like to have a place to discuss your favorite books, and perhaps get ideas for good books to read?  If so, I hope this becomes a place for just that. 

I love to read.  I have loved to read for at least 67 years.....yes, since I was four years old!  Books have been my constant companions.  Some were great, some were good, some...I couldn't get through the first chapter!  But, if that happened, there was always another book. 

I also love libraries.  I remember the first book I ever checked out of a library: it was the school library of Harriet B. Sayre Elementary School in Chicago, and the book was a child's biography of Mozart....a yellow binding with black figures on it.  I worked in the school library in junior high school and in the college library for four years of college.  I consider libraries the bulwarks of civilization.  When I travel, I visit libraries!  So, that's a little about me. 

I just finished a mesmerizing, wonderful book about 1941, the year before the U.S. entered World War II.  The name is "The Postmistress" the author is Sarah Blake.  The author pulled me into the story and never lost me.  There are three major female characters, all separate from each other at the beginning of the book, and the way Blake brings them together is profound.  One lady, Irene,  is postmaster of Franklin, Massachusetts (the last town on Cape Cod); the second, Frankie is a war correspondent in London who travels across Europe riding refugee trains for CBS; and the third is Emma, the young wife of the town doctor.  Each woman comes alive, and I was invested in all their lives.  The characters live.

I learned more about the immediate pre World War II era than I had known, and felt like I was back there and then.  Noone had recommended this, I just happened on it at, yes, the LIBRARY!!! 

What have you read that you like?  Let's talk.

Carolyn