In the next of my book series, Melanie Blignaut, a mom of two girls and part-time preschool drama teacher, sheares her best reads. Melanie also blogs about life and parenting at Confessions of a Zombie Mom and Wind in a Letterbox.
My top 5 favourite books are …
The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë), Redeeming Love (Francine Rivers) and the Bible.
My best chick lit books are…
Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series. They’re filled with crazy characters and outrageous scenarios, but you can’t stop reading.
My best coffee-table book is…
The Children’s Mandela
My favourite kids’ books growing up were…
What Katy Did (Susan Coolidge), Heidi (Johanna Spyri) and Mary Poppins (PL Travers). And I loved Enid Blyton’s Famous Five books.
My best parenting book is…
Bringing Up Girls (James Dobson). Actually, I find all of his parenting books very helpful.
The book that I’ll reread again and again is…
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë). I feel differently about Heathcliff every time I read it.
What I’m reading now…
A Woman After God’s Own Heart (Elizabeth George)
If I was a writer, I wish I would have written…
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
My kids’ favourite books are…
The Guess How Much I Love You books, anything by Dr Seuss, The Brave Young Knight (Karen Kingsbury) and the storybook version of Tangled.
My best author is…
Francine Rivers. She creates such real characters and her stories speak so clearly to your heart.
