If you're just looking for a good book that will entertain you and won't take too much of your time you should consider one of Mary Higgins Clark's mystery novels.
The first time I ever read one of Clark's books was when I was living in Magna; I was only in grade-school, so didn't really understand all that I was reading. The book was large and tantalizing to my 4th grade eyes. I remember climbing, flashlight in hand, into the pink cupboard in my room, looking for privacy to read All Around the Town.
Unfortunately, this is one of Clark's darker novels and so was especially difficult for me to get into. As a nine-year-old I wasn't too familiar with psychology, and found the novel bizarre and unfamiliar. I just remembered the part where the young woman as a child was kidnapped and forced to endure terrible things, such as having her baby chick killed right before her eyes, with the warning that the same thing would happen to her if she ever told anyone about the man and woman who had taken her.
I still have that same book today, sitting on my bookshelf, only the second time I read it it made lots more sense.
The first time I read one of Clark's novels and actually understood what was going on was three years later, in the 7th grade. I was a bit of a bookworm even back then and would spend lunches in the library. I loved my middle school library. It was there that I picked up Loves Music, Loves to Dance and fell in love with Mary Higgins Clark. For the next two years, she was practically all I read during my lunchtime library sessions.
Everyone has heard the name Mary Higgins Clark, everyone knows her as the mystery queen, but if you haven't read one of her books, or haven't read one recently, I suggest that you do!
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