Lara's Top Ten Book List

Ok, so my first official blog entry will be about a subject near and dear to my heart—books! Sean and I are both avid readers, and though we have different tastes in books, some of them overlap. (Vive la difference!)

I’m currently reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I recently realized that I hadn’t read that one! I enjoy mysteries, historical fiction and poetry the best, though I also read historical non-fiction, religion and the classics for a well-rounded diet—oh yes, and the occasional Nicholas Sparks for dessert. Some of my all-time favorites are The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Gifts from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly, The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher, The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis and Trinity by Leon Uris. My students always ask me when I recommend a book if it is on my “Top Ten List.” Now, I haven’t actually complied and actual Top Ten, but these would be on it. I need to do that…maybe this blog will help me. Other favorite authors include Alice Hoffman, Maeve Binchy, Sarah Ban Breathnach, John O’Donohue, Jan Karon, Isabelle Allende, and poets David Whyte, and Billy Collins.