Book Worm

I have always loved reading, but every now and again I find a book that I can't put down, think about constantly when I'm not reading it and get that lost feeling when I near the end because I can't imagine finding another book that will be able to take it's place or fill the craving I have for that particular book (luckily for me something always manages to pop up at the right time).  This book- induced mania has been caused by a handfull of books in my 20 year love affair with the written word and it has recently stuck again! 
The ironic thing about this book is that one of the reviews on the front cover says "You feel a compulsion to urge others to read it", and boy are they right.  My mom read this book first and I remember her talking about it endlessly.  She gave me the book almost 6 months ago and it had been sitting on my bookshelf until last week, when I needed a little break from my kindle and started Jonesing (I've always wondered the origin of that expression) for the feeling of a real book in my hands.  Since the day I picked up the book I have been in that book-love phase. 
The book is called Mary: Mrs A Lincoln, by Janis Cooke Newman.  I don't want to go too much into what the book is about because if you read it you'll just see.  I will tell you it's about Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's infamous wife.  As many of us have, I have always had a pretty low opinion of Mary Todd Lincoln (those of you who are not history nerds would benefit from knowing that Mary Todd Lincoln has long been written into the history books as being paranoid, manic depressive, and overall super hard to live with for poor old Honest Abe) but it's really interesting to think about what she may have actually been like and who she was besides a difficult presence in the life of one of America's most celebrated figures.  One thing that is important to note is that this book in historical fiction, but it's still so fun to think about what the history books could be leaving out about a really interesting woman in a really tough time-period.
Happy Reading!