Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch

Subtitle: My year of magical reading -- Nina decides to read a book a day and review each book for a year.  This will be her "job".  She does this after realizing that since her sister died she just kept trying to fill her time and days running here and there.  She was volunteering for everything for her kids.  She was not taking the time to deal with her grieving and how to process this major change in her life.  Reading had always been a huge cornerstone in her family.  From the time she was a child with her parents reading to her and her siblings, to going on great adventures in the books she chose for herself.  She continued this with her own family and children.  One of the things that helped her sister in the end was reading.  So, she decided to take a year and read.  Through doing this she was able to get lost in many stories and many that were dealing with grief.  Through this process she was better able to work through her own grief and feel better about where she was.  It also allowed her to really see what was important within her family and know when to step up or back down.  She will always miss her sister and think of her everyday, but this year in books helped her make it a little easier.