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MOTHER DAUGHTER BOOK CLUB

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"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."                             John Green, The Fault In Our Stars This summer my daughter and I decided we would form our own book club.  If you are a reader then you know that one of the great pleasures of life is sharing a good book with someone else.  So who better to share good books with than my daughter!  We decided to begin our book club with To Kill A Mockingbird  by Harper Lee. I chose To Kill A Mockingbird  for many reasons.  One reason is that it is a fantastic book. While this is my opinion, it is one agreed to by many people.  It has won a Pulitzer Prize and been voted "the best novel of the century" by librarians across the country.  "In a 1991 survey, the Library of Congress asked readers which book most influenced their lives.  
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UNCONVENTIONAL SCRAPBOOKS I love scrapbooks - all those great family memories perfectly preserved.  Smiling faces framed by cute, color coordinated papers, ticket stubs and school programs preserved for future generations.  The story of a person or a  families life, often the good and the bad, right there on the pages.  You can take it off the shelf and look at it whenever you want.  It's ok if you forget a detail of a momentous occasion because it's waiting patiently for you to rediscover it in the pages of the scrapbook.  It's like our own personal pensive.  Take that Albus Dumbledore! I admire scrapbooks and scrapbookers so much that I once tried to be one.  That is, I tried to be a scrapbooker, not a scrapbook.  I set out on a quest to take a picture of every important second in the lives of my loved ones.  "Wait, wait, let me grab my camera," became my mantra.  I obsessively read Creating Keepsakes from cover to cover eager to learn the latest tips
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