My father read to me virtually every single night of my childhood. This created a deep love of reading in my soul. I read constantly, from many genres. I particularly love anything to do with food or cooking, suspense thrillers, literary fiction, classics, Southern fiction,and non-fiction; biographies and Christian subjects in particular.

My favorite book of all time is To Kill A Mockingbird. Other faves include Girl Meets God, Dear Daddy Long Legs, The Prince of Tides, any Harry Potter book, Empire Falls, The Time Traveler's Wife, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, She's Come Undone, the Oz series (all 14 of them!) Step Ball Change, The Fault in Our Stars, A Discovery of Witches, and Wicked.

The worst books I ever read include Blowfly, The Lake House, Hannibal, The Lost World and The Wind Dancer.

Fave authors: Lauren Winner, Pat Conroy, Madeliene L'Engle, C.S.Lewis, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Kathy Reichs, John Irving, L. Frank Baum, Wally Lamb, J.K. Rowling, Tolkien and Shakespeare. (Okay, playwright & poet, not really an author, but still.)

Although I used to average 2-4 books a week, as the mother of two daughters, 4 & 9, and both a half day Montessori teacher and part time youth minister, I am lucky if I finish one book a month, so the unread tomes do stack up. My greatest book related feat since becoming a mother has been the fact that I completed the final Harry Potter book in one day, it arrived at about 10:00am, I finished at 11:00pm, while watching my little one most of the day. My second greatest book related feat was restoring the order to Thanksgiving dinner when the sofa went crashing to the floor, replacing the newly unattached leg with a stack of Shakespeare books.

Not long after my husband constructed yet another set of built in bookshelves, I got my first Kindle. Although I will always be a fan of REAL books, the lack of space in my house and the portability of the Kindle have won me over for now. Therefore, I have fewer books to release and trade.

I have just planted a Little Free Library in my front yard. Now I have a place to release books, if I ever get around to registering them.