05/31 Good Books
A good book like sing you home picoult accomplishes its author’s purpose. Some authors mass-produce pieces, sweating out a book per year because they intend to entertain people during long plane rides. Other authors spread new ideas. You’ll want such a book for your college literature class, but not for a relaxing evening. But perhaps the most pleasurable purpose for a book, and the most difficult for the author, is to capture a slice of life for the reader. The author must select ordinary scenes, organize them, and present them to show the readers something about themselves and their world. Those are the books you read again and yet again until you are familiar with every page, because each one speaks to you like an old friend.