a cup of coffee and a good book…

nope….no ‘commission’ or royalty when I suggest a good book! its pure book love meant to be shared.

Sometimes we search for a book that ‘keeps’ you reading…the way we look for a good series to watch and end up wanting to binge watch a whole season’s worth of episodes!

Good Books, like good series/movies, are meant to be revisited. They are comfort food- serving their purpose as escapist, relaxing, amusing, or even to provide a mysterious twist…

I have many favorite books that I would recommend….One that comes to mind right now, since I am in a “bookish” mood is Make Way for Lucia by E.F. Benson.

The book is actually a collection of a six book series. The book provocatively paints an accurate behind the scenes picture of an era long gone…It takes place in the English countryside in a snobbish, pretentious and socially rabid environment.

Lucia is quite ‘a character’. She is amusing and amusingly ‘distinctive’ in her ways.

Lucia and Miss Mapp vie for their place as the ‘queens’ of society…they seek to be the dominant figurehead of their own small, hypocritical, vain world… But even though their ‘behavior’ and situations are appalling, Benson presents them in such a way that the reader can’t help but laugh. The characters are annoying, yet addictive!

It is this satirical story telling that makes the book a fun read…

“With regard to religion, finally, it may be briefly said that she believed in God in much the same way as she believed in Australia. For she had no doubts whatever as to the existence of either; and she went to church on Sunday in much the same spirit as she would look at a kangaroo in the zoological gardens; for kangaroos came from Australia.”
― E.F. Benson, Queen Lucia

Make Way for Lucia is one of my all time favorites…I have many more and I will post them too, when the mood arises…to spread the joy and share the vibe…lol…..

what are your favorite books?

Feel free to share them with us in the comments!

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