Who loves to read?

Do you remember when you started to enjoy reading? How old were you? Which books did you like to read? What was the first book you remember loving? At our book discussion on Oct 1st, Sister Grant taught us that the type of books we fell in love with as children are usually the same types of books we read as adults. She remembers reading Nancy Drew novels to her father--which is why she choose "Mystery" as our book theme for September. One of the great things about reading a mystery novel is that your mind becomes engaged as you try to solve the case along with the detective. Just as Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe, we too are often detectives in life. We look for motives that make people act the way they do. We look for clues to solutions of everyday concerns. And we find ourselves giving advice to those around us. Often we can find people who act out of fear. But hopefully we are all working towards acting out of love. Thanks Jeanne for leading our discussion and thanks to Melissa for hosting us at your new house and providing yummy Italian canolis.

This month of October, we'll be reading the true story about a man who stole books and the detective who chased him. The book is called The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett. It was just released in September 2009 and has 288 pages. We will be discussing it on November 5th.

As the holidays approach, we are mindful that life gets busy. Therefore, we'll only be reading one book this month. And we've got something super fun and "Christmasy" planned for our meeting in December so stay tuned!