Rules of the Road

Sometimes I wish I could be able to read every written word in the world. With the advent to the internet and the flourishing blogging community and even without it, I am sure any of you reading this should be saying to yourself that this could be the most atrocious thing anybody could think of. But reading something that you have picked out of nowhere and then enjoying it thoroughly, in itself is such a joy. The first time I experienced that was when I read a book by Alice Steinbach which uplifted me from whatever morbid mood I was in then.

This time around, I read "Rules of the Road" by Joan Bauer which made me feel nice. A simple tale of a teenager girl's escape from her current situation to travel on road from Chicago to Dallas along with an elderly lady and how it impacts her and the way she looks at things after that. Not a travel book, but the thought of sitting behind the wheel and traveling with the character transports you places. Some of those brief instances when you feel that there are some things the author is saying instead of you (think that happens in every book I read) gives a sense of belonging. Like we are part of the book and the journey.

My takeaways from the Book:

"If you set your mind and heart towards a healthy way of living and thinking, you'll find a way to climb out of the biggest pit life throws your way"
"God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. Close to everything a human being needed to know was somewhere in the library" A human being only has to have the need to know...