New Book! New Goal!

Remember how I finished a Tale of Two Cities and then never said anything about it? Well, here are the top 10 things I loved about it:

10: So those French, not just fashionable, but very passionate.

9: Did you notice that we celebrated Bastille Day (July 14) while we were reading . . .The Revolution, oh the horror. I'll never think of the french revolution the same again.

8: Jerry Cruncher: Messenger, Midnight Body Guard, "fisherman," Black Market medical research supplier; how many jobs does a guy need to get him though English life in the 18th century? No wonder he was so grumpy all the time.

7: Does the Mender of Road have a name? What a nice man, ruined.

6: In the end, good people get better and bad people die.

5: One man, three trials all ending in possible death . . . that's more than the usual quota, I think.

4: Not to mention, how lucky, or unlucky, can one man be.

3: Who couldn't love a book that starts with a mysterious meeting in France and a shoemaker.

2: Lucy inspired me to look at my life and my opportunities to love people differently. If I could only touch people's lives for good like she does.

1: Carton! My favorite character. I always love a good unrealized hero. Too smart to live an ordinary life, and too good hearted to be a bad man. Too observant to not see what was going on, and too well spoken to run his mouth at the wrong time. I always knew he'd come though.

I was asked to select a book for the December meeting of my (in town) book club. Would you like to read it will me?

This is a children's book that I've been planning to read for the past 10 years. I find myself saying things like that a lot. I made some plans in High School that were put off during college, and now I'm just a little shocked to realize that it's been more than 10 years since then. It's time to get the ball rolling, don't you think.

Please read this book with me!!!!!