Best Selling Books Are Often About Real Life Events

It’s that time of the year when spring is but a few weeks away and for most of us that can only mean one thing – time to tidy up.

A few days ago the sun was shining and lovely as it was, unfortunately this made our house show up all the layers of dust that had accumulated over the winter months. Because of this I decided that in my house spring had arrived early and it was definitely time to start the cleaning.

The day began with me full of plans to give the house a good old clean from top to bottom.   The kitchen was first on the list and that took longer than anticipated, so already I was flagging. As I’m a woman though, I persevered and the next room I needed to sort out was the Utility room.   In our house this is one of those rooms where everything gets dumped and the door gets shut.   I hadn’t been working long when I stumbled across a load of cheap books that my mum had given to me. This set me off on a lovely trip down memory lane and that was the end of my cleaning for the day.

My mum was what you would call a book addict and was always at her best when she was reading.   She didn’t really mind what she read it could be anything ranging from fiction books, romance books and she even owned a few cook books.   I’m not sure why she had the cook books, because she never really seemed to be adventurous with her cooking.   Perhaps she just enjoyed looking at all the pictures!

Suddenly I was back 5 years ago when we had all gone on holiday together to the Canary Islands. In my cases I had packed all the usual holiday necessities, sun tan lotion, swimming costumes and beach towels. I was flabbergasted because when mum unpacked her case it was full up with loads of books. Without a lie I think she had nearly a dozen with her. We were only booked for a 2 week holiday, so I thought it was a bit excessive. Mind you I will admit she came home with a fantastic suntan because she had spent her entire holiday sunbathing around the pool with a book in one hand and a glass of wine in the other.

The spring cleaning didn’t really go the way I had planned, but then you know what it can be like sometimes when you get distracted and when cleaning is involved, I can’t say that I really mind.