This year has not been a good year for me and books. I dont know what it is, I really enjoy reading but its just been on the back burner. I think I read one, maybe two books this past year. That is shameful, maybe two books (that I cant even recall now) in four months? Im happy to report that I think Im back. What brought me back? Childhood. See, a lady named Robin Jones Gunn wrote this great teen series called “The Christy Miller Series”. I read these books as a teenage girl and got every book possible that was connected to my friends in Christy’s world. When Robin Jones Gunn said she was done with Christy and her friends my heart sank a little. Years of accepting the fact that I needed to be happy with the end of those stories I became so close to, I heard that Robin Jones Gunn wrote a series just for Christy’s best friend, Katie. On my way home from work I stopped at the bookstore just to get myself a copy and raced through it over the weekend. It was delightful to reconnect myself to these characters that I know so well after so many years. On my beside table I have a few books to get me out of my rut: “Shopaholic and Baby” (I cant believe this character has a baby! I had to get this book to complete the series and try and understand how this character HAS A BABY!), “Par for the Course” by Ray Blackstock (he writes male-lit and recently got married. Im curious to see how different his writing might be.), and Tara Leigh Cobble’s newest book “Crowded Skies”. Had to mix a little memoir in with all the fiction. We’ll see how this goes.