• From the Bookshelf: 18 Books on Parenting

        “What kinds of books do you read, Lauren?”   We were sitting in the living room of a group of people from church and everyone was going around sharing the latest book they had read.  Books were being rattled off that I had never heard of but everyone else was not only familiar with them, but had either read them or knew enough to engage in a discussion.  I nodded and was intrigued by their conversation, but was secretly hoping that no one would ask me to divulge my reading habits.   Sure enough, someone turned to me, and asked me the dreaded question.  I sort of gulped back and shyly responded, “Um,…