What have you been reading?

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

I love to read. I love the feel of the pages, the smell of the ink, the pictures on the cover and the idea that the book will change my life in someway. I have to be careful when reading at work because if it's not a very engaging book I will be out to only jolt myself awake two minutes later. I have had some really good reads lately. So good that I started and finished one at work. ( That also meant that my patient slept =) ). When I get into a good book I don't want to do anything else so the housework doesn't get done, dinner isn't made and I have a general " Don't bother me I am reading" attitude. I am grateful that my husband understands and shares my love of books...most of the time. =) Usually when I get going on one good book I have to keep reading more and more so here are some of the good ones I've been reading lately.

 Every Soul A Star   by Wendy Mass, the author of A Mango Shaped Place, which is also an awesome book. It's a young adult book in which there are three teenagers narrating it through their common experience. It's a lot about changes and growing up. But the coolest part about it is that they are all there to see an eclipse of the sun. They talk a lot about astronomy and the description of the eclipse. I totally want to see one! The next one happens in 2016. I really liked it and grew to really identify and love the characters.

 The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini. It's the first in a series called the Elm Creek Quilts. It was an easy and fun read. It's about the woman who moves to a new town due to her husbands job and trying and trying to find a new job with no success, ( I sympathize). Then she goes to work for this old lady who her husband works for. She helps her clean this huge house and the old lady teaches her how to quilt. They become friends and make what sounds like a beautiful quilt. This book made me think of my mom and how she quilts. Also it talked about the symbolism behind some of the quilt blocks used and that was fun to know. It was fun and hey there is a whole series of clean, entertaining and fullfilling books. I tend to shy away from the Adult section in the library I have found that there is more swearing and love scenes then in the young adult books. So to find a good adult fiction series is good.

Then since it's been 100 years since the Titanic sank this month I got a little obsessed with it. It started with a funny t.v. movie on ABC, then there was a PBS documentary, then because Justin is cute he got me some books about it from the library. The one that was really cool is:  A Night to Remember   by Walter Lord. It was published in the 1950's and it tells the tale of the sinking ship as remembered by survivors and those involved. After learning more and more about the incident I just have to shake my head because there were SO many chances for it to not have happened. They were getting messages about ice but the receiver on the titanic was too busy sending out messages for the guests. There was a ship 10 miles away from the where the Titanic hit but was mad at them for being rude at them and closed the wire messages at 11:30....right about when they hit the ice. It also gave the view of the ship The Carpathia how it worked so hard to get there on time and the preparations they took to save as many people as they could. But still the biggest doh! moment is all the people who really truely belived that the ship could not sink, and they wanted to stay on it instead of get into a lifeboat, even in the end!

So hopefully those give you guys some good suggestions. What is your favorite book? What have you been reading lately?