Week 7: Recommend a This I Believe Essay

For this week's blog, please go to the This I Believe website and find an essay that you recommend to the rest of the class. Include the URL of the essay and tell us a little about why you think it's a good example and/or other reasons you think it's useful to us.

My recommendation is an essay called Books at All Costs by educator Kristen Kelly.  Her essay on reading hard-bound books during her lifetime reminded me a little of my experience of going back to graduate school and how I needed a dictionary to understand many of the books I was assigned during my first year. She also incorporates a lovely narrative about her father. I was impressed with how she weaves her own story with her father's and even into a future story her children might tell about her.