• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• What Girls Learn by Karin Cook
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michelle Fitoussi
• The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
• The Last Jews In Berlin by Leonard Gross
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
• Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty White
• White Oleander by Janet Fitch
• The Ann of Green Gables Series by L.M. Montgomery
• All books by Jonathon Kellerman
• All books by Faye Kellerman
• All books by Patricia Cornwall
• The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
• What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
• All books by Anna Quindlen
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Revenge: A Story of Hope by Laura Blumenfeld
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• From The Corner Of His Eye by Dean Koontz
• Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
• Gone To Soldiers by Marge Piercy
• Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca
• The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
• All But Myself by Gerda Weisman Klein
• The Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Rachel and Her Children by Johnathon Kozol
• Turning Stones by Marc Parent
• Angelas Ashes by Frank McCourt
• The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way by Bill Bryson
• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
• Wake Up, Im Fat by Camryn Manheim
• More to come....

• Claim Jumper
• Roadhouse Grill
• Lucille's Smokehouse Barbeque
• Don Jose's
• Pick-Up Stix
• Rubio's Baja Grill
• Coldstone Creamery

I know...  why do I torture myself with a favorite restaurant list on a WLS website?  Because lets face it, it still tastes good.  I have no intention of living my life without this particular joy, just a joy that is more contained and not part of my everyday, every meal life.