You'll find the latest Saturdays @ the South post here. As I mention in the post, even though this is the last day of Banned Books Week, I think keeping the discussion about challenging books open to be too important to really give the week a finale. And since fall is my favorite time of year, it seemed appropriate to start talking about fall things.
The blog extras this week include one more Banned Books Week article from the Huffington Post, which I thought was an interesting take on the concept and a point of view that hadn't yet been taken on the Library blog.
Also as an extra is a little behind the scenes note: while all of the books I listed are definitely comfort reads, it's not always easy to pick books because I try to limit myself to the ones available at my library. Because I have quirky taste in books, it doesn't surprise me that some of my first-choice selections aren't necessarily available at my little branch. Some other comfort reads that I love going to include Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (I LOVE his take on Cinderella and it was the only hard-copy book I brought with me to Amsterdam); Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes and Moby Dick by Herman Melville (because sometimes you just need a little transcendentalism).
I'll be honest here and say that I have comfort watches just like I have comfort reads. There are TV shows that are comforting to me as familiar reminiscences, but perhaps that's a post for another time...
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