52 Questions - #1 Who is your favorite mother in print?

This feature of the On The Same Page was stolen shamelessly from PaperCuts, -a library/readers blog from the Topeka and Shawnee Public Library. Each week a new question will be asked and YOU are invited to respond!

Share your memories, your book choices, your ideas and your thoughts on the subject of the week.

This week's question comes from the blog creator. Next week we may concentrate on Father's Day, but in preparation for that, in your reading who have you found that was a stand out mother? Many real life mothers come to mind, those that I admire, those I emulate and those who love their children beyond reason. My literary answer would be the mother in One True Thing by Anna Quindlen. Ellen Gulden, a daughter finds herself forced to care for her mother as she battles cancer. Ellen begins to see a strong and beautiful version of the mother she previously held in disdain. The truth emerges; painful and surprising - revealing a woman who make choices based on dignity and her core beliefs - remarkable woman.

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The library system website (www.sweetaterlibraries.com) offers a reader's advisory service called NextReads. Library users may sign up for the service offering email notification tailored to your reading interests. Look for the logo on the library's front page and enter your preferences by checking the boxes. The options include:

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NextReads and Sweetwater County Library staff have put together book suggestions. New reading suggestions will be mailed to your inbox.

The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian

Laurel is a woman working as a social worker at a homeless shelter. She is dealing, -although not completely adequately-, with a violent incident from her college days. Laural meets a homeless man who she discovers may have an indirect tie to her past. Bobbie Crocker has a box of photographs that depict famous people and additionally keys into Laurel's interest in photography. On assignment to publicize the homeless shelter and illuminate the stories of their clients, Laurel digs into the Bobbie's history, identity and his photographs. In a thriller that weaves together stories of literary characters; Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, coincidentally from Laurel's childhood neighborhood and the Gatsby heirs, Laurel is on a chase that may involve her and a deep hidden family secret. Even the title: A Double Bind reveals information.

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