If you’re looking for some good books to read, check out the comments left  by readers on the last post.  Such interesting suggestions that I’ve printed out all the comments for my files. One of my old favorites was mentioned : My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell – years ago we read the whole book aloud on a family vacation. It’s hilarious. A new book by my friend Jackie Winspear An Incomplete Revenge (the latest in her wonderful Maisie Dobbs series) was also mentioned, and a book that I’m actually reading now, Writing About Memoir by Abigail Thomas. (More about this book in another post when I get back from my trip.) Plus a wonderful idea for travel reading – bring novels that take place in your destination. Please leave your own favorite books below under comments. You can use Comments as a message board while I’m gone.   

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Has anyone read The Little Prince lately? I’m reading it aloud to my granddaughter Emma and she now goes around (like the little prince) muttering how strange grown-ups are. Here’s a beautiful quote by the author (something to mull over for the next two weeks):

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery