Books Can Save You From Yourself

How a neighborhood book club saved my sanity

Nicole Lorraine
Nov 5 · 4 min read

Books have not always been in my life. The only person I can remember reading religiously was my maternal grandmother. She would read her red prayer book every morning and was always working her way through the alphabet of Sue Grafton’s novels.

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Nicole Lorraine

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New Orleans native, Irish descent. Translates to loud-mouth, honest to goodness Southern bitch…with a heart of gold. www.crescentcitycalling.com

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