Bookwormy

I am a self-professed non-reader.

I have never enjoyed reading. I skimmed everything I could in high school, survived on Cliff's Notes in college, and the number of books I have read post-college I can count on one hand.

And, then I married a bookworm.

My husband loves to read. He is constantly surrounded by books. He has a stack on his nightstand ten deep and is always in the process of reading several books at a time. I watch him - lost in his latest book and soaking up every word as if he's escaped to another world.

That's hard for me to understand. Because I have only read a handful of books in my whole life. And, I've enjoyed only a few of them. But, I really want to know what that's like - to really love a book and get lost in it - and I don't know where to begin.

I want to read. But, more importantly than that, I want to love to read.

My husband says that people love to recommend books. So, I thought I'd throw this out there to you - my friends and family and faithful readers:

If you were to recommend one book to me, a self-professed non-reader type - a book that just might rope me in and grab my attention and that might get me started on a journey of loving to read - what would it be?

I'm open.

To anything.

(Well, unless it's morally disturbing. Or horror. I do have to sleep at night and I'm a total wimp.)

A series.
Single book. Is that what it's called?
Fiction.
Non-fiction.
Classic.
Autobiography.

I could tell you the three or four books that I've loved so far in my lifetime, but I don't want those to affect your recommendations to me. And, each one is more different than the next anyway.

I'll choose one of your recommendations this weekend, and commit to reading it - from start to finish. And, I'll stick the book I've chosen on my sidebar while I'm reading it, and tell you what I thought if it when I'm finished.

So, dear "readers", what would you suggest?