Erica, the second of three books that got the statement “you are a fabulous reader” was People of the Book by the author of March and Year of Wonders. I just finished this book and it was great. It’s about this really old Jewish book and you get the present day story of its preservation along with the story of it’s 500 year past and all the people who owned it. Really really good. Some good lines:
1. “There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men.”
2. “Me, I’m a complete pessimist. If there’s a sniper somewhere in the country I’m visiting, I fully expect to be the one in his cross-hairs.”
3. “He shouldered an immense rucksack and then proceeded to almost break the nose of the man crowding the aisle behind him. The lethal backpacer ninety-degree turn.”
4.”Sometimes I think if you took all the universities and hospitals out of greater Boston, you’d be able to fit what’s left into about 6 city blocks.”
5. “I’ve always been suspicious of people who advocate a good cry as a remedy for anything.”
I recommend this book to girls and to anyone who won’t get irritated that there are chapters where you only hear about one person and then never hear about them ever again. I know sometimes that is irritating, but in this book I loved it.
