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Revealed! Book Club Choices for May. Happy Reading.

Because nothing boosts happiness more than a great book,
each month, I suggest:

· one outstanding book about happiness or habits

· one outstanding work of children’s or young-adult 
literature–I have a crazy passion for kidlit

· one eccentric pick–a widely admired and excellent book that I love, yes, but one that
may not appeal to everyone

I’ll post these recommendations here, or to make sure you don’t miss them, sign up for
the monthly Book Club newsletter.

Shop at the wonderful Brooklyn indie WORD, BN.com, Amazon (I’m an affiliate of all
three), or your favorite local bookstore. Or visit the library! Drumroll…

An outstanding book about happiness or, more specifically, habits:

Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography

Buy from WORD; BN.com; Amazon.

An outstanding children’s book:

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

Buy from WORD; BN.com; Amazon.

An eccentric pick:

Wayne Koestenbaum, Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon

Buy from WORD; BN.com; Amazon.

I’ve noticed that many times, when someone describes a book to me, I want to read it less.
And often, weirdly, the better a book is, the worse it sounds. So I won’t describe these
books, but I love all the books I recommend; I’ve read them at least twice if not many
times; and they’re widely loved. I do provide slightly more context in the
book club newsletter.

If you read last month’s recommendations…what did you think? Laurie Colwin’s 
Family Happiness; Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth (which my 
nine-year-old daughter is reading aloud to me now); and Eugene 
Delacroix’s Journal. Such good books.

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