 but books were always a topic I could bring up if things got tense. We could always share what we were reading. When my mom was a kid, she spent her summers at her library because it was air-conditioned and her house wasn't. I guess she probably read everything they had because she knew exactly which books to show me and when, and if she didn't have an idea, Miss Lolly always did. College was a pretty difficult time for me.