Choosing My Friends . . . Then Putting Them on The Bookshelf

I am in a biography/autobiography stage. No offense to my actual friends, but I've been enjoying quiet afternoons in the sun with Ann Judson (one of the first missionaries to Burma), and I am looking forward to sunny afternoons poolside with Tina Fey, and come Fall, I'll be spending time with Mindy Kaling, (Kelly Kapoor from The Office.) Of course, I am never happier when two of my favorite things-friends and reading-collide, like yesterday at church when I bought a book by a woman I've had lengthy conversations with, or the buying of Totally Desperate Mom by my high school buddy and childhood actress, Wendy Hagen.