Question of the Week: What is your favorite "classic" book?

Mine is To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee.  I have read it multiple times and still enjoy it. I sometimes think we ruin the classics for people by having kids read them in high school.  When I reread something I was assigned in high school, I see how much I missed because I was just too young.  Try a classic today. You may like it.

.In case you don't know the story of To kill a mockingbird, Scout, a young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s, learns about injustice and violence when her father, Atticus, defends a black man, Tom, who is falsely accused of rape.

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Question of the Week: What is your favorite winter read?

As much of the country continues to be impacted by snow, I can't help but think about winter reads and tales of epic snow and feezing temperatures and survival. Here are two of my favorite books to curl up with (preferably in front of a fire with a cup of cocoa).

Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child: a novel is one of my favorite winter tales. Childless couple Jack and Mabel are homesteading in Alaska in 1920. Their first winter is a lonely and brutal one and they decide to combat it by building a snow child. The next morning the snow child is gone and in her place is a young girl with blonde hair who calls herself Faina. She is a child of the woods and prefers to live in the wilderness with a fox by her side. Each winter she reappears and Jack and Mabel begin to love her like she was their own daughter. This is a charming fairy tale that will warm your heart.

Frozen in Time: an epic story of survival and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff is a great work of narrative nonfiction. It is has two stories: one of a U.S. cargo plane that crashed in Greenland in 1942 (and the B-17 rescue plane that suffered the same fate) and one of a 2012 mission to find the wreckage. The nine men aboard the B-17 spent 148 days trapped in snow and ice as they waited to be rescued. This is an incredible story of survival and tenacity that reads like a thriller.

Now it's your turn. What is your favorite winter read?