Top Ten Tuesday : Books That Provide a Much-Needed Escape - LATE EDITION!

If I could choose books to read RIGHT NOW as a way to escape -- a much-needed escape -- these are the books I would read, with a brief simplification of why. Of course, The Little House Books are a staple, so no explanation there. 

1. The Little House Books : you know

2. Don Quixote : hysterical, carefree, and fanciful

3. The Pilgrim's Progress : a beautiful reminder of the Christian walk

4. The Wind in the Willows : delightful, cheerful, and at times, reckless 

5. The Great Gatsby : wild, complex, and a car wreck...like you cannot turn your eyes away.

6. Letters of a Woman Homesteader : valiant, fearless, and audacious (I live through this woman.) 

7. Walden : America's first tiny house experiment (I want to live in a tiny house.)

8. Far From the Madding Crowd : love, revenge, and boy gets girl (A Hardy story with a happy ending. Strange, but happy.)

9. The Handmaid's Tale : an entertainingly far stretch of the imagination (Entertainingly dystopian.)

10. Persuasion : a pleasant, charming, mature love story (The best love letter.)

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