I'm lucky

So I am almost finished reading

it's a book I stole borrowed from my mom over Christmas.. I like it allot it was written in the 50's and it's about a girl in England who was in a prisoner camp (I use prisoner in the loosest of terms) and it follows her life after and when she comes into some money from an inheritance she goes about to do good things, she puts together the means and plans to build a water well in the town she was encamped in then goes to find a man who was very kind to her whom she thought had been killed because of a good dead he had done.. anyway I like the book so far, I have to remind my self at times that it's not only an old book it's also set in the 20's and the author is ENGLISH so some of the use of words or language is a little off..

BUT that's not the point of this post.. I have an amazing Mother you can see how awesome she is here  or even here she LOVES to read as do all of my grandparents and aunts and uncles (her parents/siblings etc)... she wanted me desperately to LOVE reading as much as her and for lots of reasons it didn't come to me as naturally as it did for her.. I think I as her first born she was disappointed that I just didn't like it.. I wanted to be moving, talking, screaming or singing ANYTHING but sitting still and reading...

I have come to really love reading now that I'm a grown up (so they tell me, jury is still out) but I'm still a reader that the book must grab me pretty quick, I'm prone to put down a book and never pick it up again if I can't "get in to it".. and I probably only read a hand full of books for enjoyment each year...

BUT what is so great about my mother's awesome love of reading is that it has SKIPPED a generation... Hunter is a veracious reader I have a hard time keeping him in books (i know high class problem) and thankfully he has a grandmother who I can ALWAYS call to get a recommendation on a book or more likely she'll get a call that goes something like this

me: hey mom I'm in Sam's club have you heard of this book "xxxxx" is it appropriate, is it good.. would hunter like it???
mom: I haven't heard of it but I've read lots by the author, he's good and really geared towards Hunter's age etc. etc. get it!!!

there isn't many authors my mom doesn't "know" (know in the, I've heard, read,seen something about him/her kind of way)... I've even been known to call her when we are mid book report and a kid is really stuck and we are boarding on nervous breakdown stage and she can ALWAYS talk a kid down and talk through the book and reminding of theme, analogies or plot...

another awesome thing about her is my kids absolutely know (and now really expect) that for Christmas and birthdays they'll get a book from Grandma and something fun from Grandpa.. my Mom would argue that books are fun too but you get the drift..

see I told ya I'm LUCKY!!!
ta ta