(She knelt before the bookcase as though it were an altar. She crossed her hands on her breast in an ecstasy of delicious indecision. Should she take the volume of
The Sherlock Holmes Collection because it had a lot of reading to it? Or the slim volume of Sonnets from the Portuguese: A Celebration of Love because it was so beautiful-soft green leather binding and tasseled, gold cord bookmark?
Carl looked down at the heavy coil of hair at the back of her head, held in place by two bone hairpins. On an impulse, he pulled out the pins. She jumped up with a yelp when she felt her hair cascade down her back. She demanded her hairpins, and he challenged her to try to get them.)
The author also wrote one of my favorite books A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
.All are excellent books. You might want to read them or give them as gifts.
