Summer Reading...

Que dramatic Tara Music....

In my quest for 52 books... I just finished reading

Gone With the Wind!

AMAZING!

It wasn't the easiest read in the world...

Basically a discourse on Southern living pre and post Civil War...

With a little bit of romance thrown in for good measure!

And am I glad it was thrown in!

Rhett and Scarlett... LOVED THEM!

Ashley... Really Scarlett? What were you thinking?

I read all sorts of reviews on it before I read it and there were so many claiming this to be such a racist book...I don't think so!

Margaret Mitchell explained EXACTLY what it was like,I felt like I had been transported back in time.

Scarlett- Let's talk about the original DIVA!

She was strong,and beautifu, and manipulative, and pretty much a brat...

AND I loved her.

Too bad there are no more kids for me... I would be all about

having a daughter named Scarlett...

I wasn't as familiar with the story as I thought I was... I kept waiting for Rhett and Scarlett to just get over it and live happily ever after!

I still think that they will end up together!

Rhett Butler... The scalawag, carpetbagger, devil,

perpetual bad-boy...

LOVED him even more than Scarlett!

I loved how he was who he was...like him or not!

And the line...

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"

I can see why both the book and the movie have stood the test of time.

If nothing else great comes from my little 2010 reading challenge, that is okay...

I found one of my new favorite books!

I am not a real lover of the classics... but this one

is a must read!

I have always been somewhat curious/obsessed about the South and the Southern way of living...

This just added to that desire... bring on the Civil War, Pat Conroy, and a trip to the Bayou.

I gotta get to the original Dixie!