C. S. Lewis writes about books:“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.” (Don't you agree? Are you one who can hardly eat lunch without reading something?)
“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” (So true, but who has time with so many other books waiting to be read?)
“We read to know that we are not alone.” (Aren't you so glad to be friends with Jane Austen, Dorothy Canfield Fisher ["Understood Betsy"], and John Bunyan?)
So what did you read this summer? No. What did you love reading this summer? There are just some books you have to stop and hug because they are so delicious. Right?
Give us a favorite fiction and then a nonfiction that you loved. I'll go first: For fiction, I liked Anna and Her Daughters, an old book by G. E. Stevenson, Robert Louis' cousin. For nonfiction, One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp was exquisite.
Now you.
Yup! : - )
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean--I also cannot eat a meal, if I am eating alone, without reading at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI don't read a lot of fiction, but I really enjoyed "Baking Cakes in Kigali" by Gaile Parkin. For my non-fiction book, I would have to say "A Lifetime of Wisdom" by Joni Eareckson Tada.
Janet