Carrie’s Reviews > Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life > Status Update

The reading life is like one of those potent graces bestowed by fairy godmothers on princesses in old fairy tales, the sort to help a young heroine grow in all good things, to love life in its fullness and beauty, but also make her strong in resisting the forces of evil stepmothers or wicked fairies already gathered around her cradle.