Flight Behavior

One of my new year's resolutions was to read more. I'm definitely a reader but have a hard time finding the time. I've made it a goal to try to read about a chapter a night of a book I chose to read for leisure. I don't get a chance to every night, but I still have been keeping up with reading more than I used to. I want to start highlighting some of my favorite books I've read. 

One of them by far, was Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. Being a New York Time's bestseller, and being recommended to me over and over again I finally had a chance to borrow it from the library. I found myself becoming so captured inside the story, as happens with most books, but I looked forward to reading this book more than most. It captured my heart and mind as I read every word.

Here is a pretty good summary of the book by Wikipedia: Dellarobia Turnbow is a 28-year-old discontented housewife living in a small town in rural Tennessee. On a hike, on which she is planning to meet a telephone repairman to begin an affair with him, the heroine finds that the valley behind their house is covered in millions of Monarch butterflies. As the news of her discovery spreads, she receives a visit from Ovid Byron, a university professor who studies the monarchs, and warns that although they are beautiful, they are a disturbing symptom of global climate change, displaced from their typical wintering location in Mexico, and that they may not survive the harsh Tennessee winter.

It's definitely well worth the read!