Day 06 Blogging Challenge...oh, to be a bookworm

So today is supposed to be about a hobby I have.

Reading isn't a hobby.  

Reading is a passion.

Old books.  New books.  Electronic books.  All books. I could go on and on about books...but instead I thought I would list my top books--there are so, so many books, and so so many genres that I could literally list books all day long...these are in no particular order, just great, great books.

1.    The Poisonwood Bible

2.    Acheron  (part of a series)

3.    Escape (from Polygamy)

4.    Outlander

5.    If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

6.    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

7.    The Waste Land

8.    Brave New World

9.    The Kite Runner

10.  Eat. Pray. Love. (way better than the movie.  trust me)

11.  Middlesex

12.  The Other Boleyn Girl

13.  On The Road (Kerouac and I don't exactly get along-but still worth it)

14.   The Count of Monte Cristo (probably one of my all-time favorites)

15.   Les Miserables

16.   Dubliners

17.   The Help 

18.  The Clan of the Cave Bear

Books can take you anywhere.  Can make you be anything.  Can help you see things in a different perspective.

And this is, no lie, what my table might look like at any given moment:

Awesome Book: "The Help"

I stumbled across this book on Amazon and bought it on a whim.  I have a Kindle, so it was there for about a week before I started reading it.  And once I started, I couldn't put it down.

If you grew up in the South, or knew someone who grew up in the South, or had parents who grew up in the South, this book will speak to you. The Amazon review doesn't do it justice. It tells the story of the black maids that work in the homes of the white families in Jackson, Mississippi in the late 1950s and 1960s, just about the time that the integration movement was sweeping the United States......unless you lived in the Heart of Dixie.  It's the story of the women that came into the homes and raised white children, while leaving their own children at home so that they could have food on the table.  It's the story of their hearts and the joys and heartbreaks that they faced, and of the dichotomy of love and hate that they shared with the white families that hired them.