Reading, for me, is entertainment and an escape from the real world. But it can also inform and stretch the boundaries of the life I live.
Once again, Halloween Bingo has been both great fun and very useful in helping me along in my bookish goals. I do have a little bit of a Bingo-hangover, though, and I've been trying to avoid any books with fantastical elements since I finished the last book. No such luck, though. Kate Morton has surprised me by including what seems to be a ghost/haunted house in her newest, The Clockmaker's Daughter, and I've been struggling a little with it. I might have to set it aside and come back to it later.