Day 12

One of my my mom's and my favorite authors is Martha Grimes.  She has a couple of different series, and we love them all.  The characters are so well written, we are constantly speaking of them as though they were our old (real) friends.  We are even planning a trip to England next summer to visit the many sights of her Richard Jury novels.  My mom has every Martha Grimes book ever written - I believe it is close to 50.  Since I began reading them as a young teenager I didn't buy my own, just read my mom's.  When I got married and moved out my mom would bring me the new ones as she finished them.  Then one day, out of the blue and for no special reason, my mom came to my house with a box full of all her Martha Grimes books and gave them all to me.  It sounds silly, but I was so touched I actually started crying.  They are on display in my office, and last Spring I even got a few of them signed when I met her at a reading in North Seattle.

Thank you for the books mom, they mean so much to me!