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I’ve written this week about how specific novels affected the early years of my marriage and thus my relationship with my terrific engineer husband. You don’t have to be married to have a book affect relationships–for either good or bad.
What books–fiction or non-fiction–have brought you closer to someone, given you insight into someone else’s life, or enabled you to enjoy the differences? And just how did they do it?
I would say I have a better understanding of my husband after reading his favorite author, Louis L’Amour.
My hubby always said he was born in the wrong century and after reading some of his favorites I finally understood why he thought that way. The men in Louis L’Amour’s novels were tough, rugged, and concise in their word choice and actions. (Just like my hubby)
Now, Louis is one of my favorite authors too!
Christi
http://christicorbett.wordpress.com
Hmmm, great question! Mary Demuth’s novel Daisy Chain jumps to mind, not for understanding someone else, but for understanding myself, because her portrayal of emotional abuse rang so true with some of what I’d experienced growing up.
Lucy Maude Montgomery helped me get inside the head of our second daughter,Serenity, during some of those less-than-serene teen years. I’m grateful for the thoughts, emotions,and imagination of Anne Shirley which still show up occasionally in my wonderfully grown-up daughter.