You must hold on to something,
the way leaves hold to sunlight,
the way roots hold to water...


Some of my favorite books:


Fiction

• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Caddy smelled like trees)
  
  
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  
  
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  
  
• Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
  
  
• Moo by Jane Smiley
  
  

Nonfiction

• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  
  
• Midnight and the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
  
  
• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  
  
• Meditations by Thomas Moore
  
  

Children through Young Adult

• Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
  
  
• Shabanu by Suzanne Staples-Fisher
  
  
• Tuesday by David Wiesner (flying frogs!)
  
  
• all the Winnie the Pooh books by A. A. Milne
  
  

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