Books

So, I have already re-read, some for the umpteenth time, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I needed to take a break from Miss Austen and Mrs. Rowling (no offense, ladies).

The good thing about having lots of time is that you get things accomplished that you never thought you would get around to. I'm reading those books that have been sitting on my shelf for years. I swear if we weren't here, I probably never would have made the time to dust them off.

To Kill a Mockingbird is just one such book. Somehow, I had gotten through high school and college without having read this book. I had seen the film a few years ago, which took away a little from the suspense and mystery of the plot, but what a great read all the same.

Other books on my list include Beloved and Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. Frankfurt was, after all, Anne's hometown. Back in the 1980s, I visited the house where she and her family hid in Amsterdam and it was one of the most memorable places I visited in all of Europe. And yet, I have never read her diary.

David is doing the same thing and has been making headway through Shelby Foote's trilogy The Civil War: A Narrative.