When I was a young girl, a friend's mother once described me as an old soul. I did not play video games, loved Hitchcock films, had an eye for anything old-fashioned, and always had my head in a book. When I was in fourth grade, I read 53 Nancy Drew books and later matured to Agatha Christie. I found myself so absorbed that I insisted upon going on an overnight train ride, so I may solve a crime like the "Orient Express."
As a young adult, I am still enthralled with the idea that a book can completely engulf your mind into another place, time, and story. Here is the start to my master book list of stories that have truly inspired me, made me laugh, cry, or simply made the wheels in my mind turn:
More to be added later...



A great quote from the great book "Eat, Pray, Love":

"...I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" - a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared - most of all - to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself....then truth will not be withheld from you." Or so I've come to believe."