Tag, I'm "It"!

So here's a question: If Dick Cheney plays tag, does he tag himself?

I did a Dick Cheney and tagged myself for the meme at Blue Gal's site. Why? Because I wanted to, that's why. And you're either for me or you're for the terrorists.

OK, so I'm naming three favorite books that others may not have heard of:

1) Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry; this book spoke to me. Wendell Berry has written numerous works of fiction about Port Williams, Kentucky. This one chronicles the life of Hannah Coulter, from when she is a pregnant young bride during WW2 to when she is an elderly woman. There are passages in this book that sing.

2) The Wizard of Loneliness by John Nichols (but not the journalist John Nichols that writes for The Progressive, etc. This John Nichols also wrote The Milagro Beanfield War.) This is a beautiful and funny coming-of-age story about a rather neglected, motherless boy who goes to live with relatives in Vermont when his father enlists and is shipped overseas during WW2. It was made into a dreadful movie about 15 years ago, so even if you saw the movie and hated it, please give the book a try.

3) The Summer Book by Tove Jansson; this author from Finland is best known for the children's "Moomintroll" series, which is delightful in its own right. The Summer Book is a novel about the relationship between a little girl and her grandmother one summer that they spend together in a cottage on an island in the gulf of Finland.

As always, if you order any of these books from Amazon I will never speak to you again.

Tag, everyone is "it"! What are your favorite books?