#11

After many nights of reading a book I originally checked out for spring break, I finished book #11, Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs.  I'm not entirely sure WHY I couldn't stay awake to read this one, because I really enjoyed the story.  A very driven and successful woman who was raised by her kleptomaniac of a grandmother while her father spent most of her childhood in prison.  She was searching for her teen-age mother who had gone to the store, when she was just a baby, and never come back.  It's a good story of learning to overcome issues of the past while accepting that they make us who we are today.  And it had a happy ending, which is always a plus in my book :)
I have to admit that this book had some challenging vocabulary for me (time to read more adult books and less YA, I suppose): penultimate, kopek, extant, pejorative...(those are just from the first two pages)  It was the first time I wished I had a kindle so I could use the built-in dictionary feature.  Had to use my context clues skills and pull from the recesses of my brain where I keep formally known vocabulary words!
I will read more Susan Isaacs.
fl: I stepped off the elevator right into the entrance gallery of the co-op.  ll: "Yes!" We said I love you a few thousand times more and then I told him the honor was all mine.