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Some days are tough, bed head that fights back, spilled milk, rain, pesky family members…we’ve all been there. Really though it’s only bad hair, a small clean up job and people living together, it’s all a matter of changing your point of view. A little less Eyore a little more Jeanette Walls.

On the eighth day when God was handing out whining privileges, he came upon Jeanette Walls and said, “For you, an unlimited lifetime supply.”
Chicago Tribune

The Glass Castle is Jeanette Walls’ astonishing memoir of childhood. It’s her account of being raised by a self-absorbed artist as a mother and a brilliant father suitable for a Disney Movie. His downfall is alcohol, though, and drinking binges stamp out everything charismatic about his character.

Still, you love them…and amazingly enough the kids stay loyal to their parents throughout unimaginable hardships. I could not put this story down and if you enjoy a book that fills you with real emotion, you will devour this as I have.

Books, even fictional books, can be such wonderful food for the soul. They bring us perspective, they open our imaginations and offer and escape from the everyday. Stepping away from the mindlessness of television to the stimulating world of reading never leaves me disappointed. Finding several people who enjoy reading the same type of books and forming a book club is a fantastic way to have fun and get a little more out of your reading. I have been part of several book clubs and currently belong one filled with members to whom I can really relate.

Why not pick up a book tonight, and spend some time with new friends.