Confessions of a Book Piler

My pile of books had grown to unmanageable proportions, and nearly toppled over on me this morning. I decided to take drastic measures, and shelve some books. And, of course, I found some books that I had forgotten to read:)
Remember I reported reading A Circle of Quiet, by Madeleine L'Engle? I've moved on to The Summer of the Great-Grandmother. A painfully realistic and beautiful exploration of the lessons learned from a death-bed. I'm looking forward to the next book, The Irrational Season.
The Jungle Book. I know, I know, I'm not a kid! But a good author can be read at any stage of life, and Rudyard Kipling fits this perfectly. Read it and discover how well you know the true story line!
The Greatest Stories Never Told, Rick C. Beyer. Amazing quirks of history that somehow don't make it into textbooks. Did you know the fax machine was invented during the Napoleonic Era? That coffee became popular in Europe only because of a papal decree stating that the devil shouldn't have all the good things in life? It's a strange world....