Cheryl Drury

I think part of it for me is now I have raised two boys.

And I opened this book, and in chapter one, I saw a kid I know.

And I just wanted every good thing for him.

So falling in love with that character was a surprise, but then also his honesty in letting us see how he grows.

Letting us see how he changes, especially in regard to his opinion of his friend Jim, who becomes his friend through the course of the story.

And just Huck's honesty and his forthrightness in everything that he thinks.

It's so genuine.

I just loved it.

I totally agree.

I think it was Winston Churchill who said that it's a pity to come to a great book too early in life.

And so I think about that now that I'm my age, and sometimes I feel like I'm coming too late to them, but at least I came to them.

There you go.

Totally agree on that.

Yes.

I know a lot of books stand up really well to rereading.

Well, it's the book I already mentioned, A Gentleman in Moscow.

This is probably my all-time favorite book.

If there is a person in fiction that I could have dinner with, it would be The Count.

I think that Amor Tolles performed a miracle in creating this adventure story in the four walls of the Metropole Hotel.

And