Books like that.

I recently read Jodi Picoult's book "Plain Truth". I loved it. She really did a lot of research in order to write that story. It was very detailed about the Amish life. We have an amish family that comes into McDonald's once in awhile and my daughter is always asking me questions, like why do they wear those white hats? Well, while reading that book I was able to give her the answers to some of her (my) questions. I like Joy Fielding as an author, probably mostly because she is Canadian. But I do like her stories. I have been reading more and more Canadian writers but I have several oldie but goodies that I tend to stick with like Lawrence Sanders, Ed McBain, Sue Grafton, Andrew M. Greeley and Catherine Cookson (I know, totally different genre which I don't usually like, but I like HERS). Sometimes I will read one sentence in a book that will hit me and make me think, "Yeah, that's the way I feel too." So many people feel that way and someone actually put it into words. That kind of thing.