Reading in the Garden

Have you been longing for your own Little Free Library, those cute birdhouse-like structures where people can take a book or leave a book? In July, my husband made my dream come true and built me my own Little Free Library.  In five short months, I've learned a lot of things I didn't quite expect or think of.  Here are some things you may want to consider before adding  a Little Free Library to your Christmas wish list.  Your Little Free Library May Be Vandalized. After becoming a Little Free Library member, you are given access to the exclusive Little Free Library Facebook page intended specifically for registered stewards.   It was from this Facebook page that I learned how many Little Free Libraries are vandalized, something I had never considered before putting up my library.   Then I started reading the horror posts:   libraries with doors ripped off; all books taken out and tossed onto the lawn to get water soaked from the spr...

A Book as Tasty and Warm as a Home Cooked Meal Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe  is about the bonds of a small Alabama town.  It’s about community, friendships, and love.  Told in an easy, comfortable voice, the book alternates between several narrators.  We learn town news in notices from the post mistress’s bulletin highlighting noteworthy events such as a meteorite that smashes a neighbor’s radio, boy scouts who were awarded merit badges, and updates on her husband’s snoring, wrecking the car, and losing his National Geographic Magazine . The true bones of the book lies in the lives of Idgie and Ruth whom we discover in a third-person voice and in the reminisents of a chatty, congenial, elderly woman, Mrs. Threadgoode.   Mrs. Threadgoode befriends Evelyn, a discontent homemaker, at the Rose Terrace Nursing Home where Evelyn regularly waits in the hallway while her husband v...