On my shelf this week:

Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
Gabriel, by Edward Hirsch
Forever, Erma, by Erma Bombeck

This week I’m reading a can’t-put-it-down novel, one of the most beautiful poetry books I’ve ever read and a collection of Erma Bombeck’s best essays.

Best quotes so far:

“I defy any parent who has been on a trip with a child, who kicked the seat for 50 miles, threw his shoes out the window, lost his pet snake in Cleveland during the five o’clock traffic and spilled his slush down your back to tell me she has never considered abandoning him at the next shell station.”
-Erma Bombeck

“What mother has never fallen on her knees when she has gone into her son’s bedroom and prayed, ‘Please, God. No more. You were only supposed to give me what I could handle.'”
-Erma Bombeck

Read any of these? Tell us what you thought.

Or tell us what’s on your shelf.