“Of Mice and Men. Rather my favorite, actually. I love so many stories, but this one always gets me. I suppose it has it’s ideological sensitivities, but doesn’t ever word ever recorded? It’s a wonderful book. Poignant. Timeless. Important.
If you’d like to borrow it, you may. In fact, keep it. I have about ten copies.”
”I’m sure there’s a few that’ve found their way to the shelves without my reading them, but for the most part yes. I can’t very well teach them without reading them, can I?”
❝ Well, you have a point. ❞
Her hand lightly skims over the
book spines on the shelves, be-
fore she delicately landed her fingers
on a copy, slowly taking it out of
the bookshelf.
❝ This seems like an interesting book. I think I
saw Nanny reading one of these, though father
would never even let me get near these kinds of books. ❞