Tell me about your life. Really. I want to know.

My new book is the biography of Ezra Taft Benson, the 13th President of the Church. I LOVE it.

I have said that I love biographies before, but I always wonder if one day I will become bored with reading about what someone's childhood was like or how they decided to marry the person they did.

But it's confirmed. I love reading about people's lives. It absolutely fascinates me. I love reading about their family life, their "coming of age", their friends, the process in which they made important decisions, and about the turning points in their lives.

Maybe I enjoy reading about lives because my life is mostly still ahead of me and I have no idea what is in store. What would my biography be like? How will I make those critical decisions? Looking back, what will be the turning points in my life? How am I making the most of every opportunity?

Whatever it is, I am hooked. And it feels so good. My next biography is going to be of Sandra Day O'Connor.

Has anyone else read any good ones? (except for Pres. Hinckley, John Adams, and Queen Noor)

One of the many reasons why I love "Gilead"

pg 9

"I saw a bubble float past my window, fat and wobbly and ripening toward that dragonfly blue they turn just before they burst.

"So I looked down at the yard and there you were, you and your mother, blowing bubbles at the cat, such a barrage of them that the poor beast was beside herself at the glut of opportunity. She was actually leaping in the air, our insouciant Soapy!

"Some of the bubbles drifted up through the branches, even above the trees. You two were too intent on the cat to see the celestial consequences of your worldly endeavors. They were very lovely.

"Your mother is wearing her blue dress and you are wearing your red shirt and you were kneeling on the ground together with Soapy between and that effulgence of bubbles rising, and so much laughter.

Ah, this life, this world."