Books

Before you start reading this post, I have to apologize for its length. I’m new to the blogging world, and I’m pretty sure I’ve committed a breach of blogging etiquette. I got started, though, and couldn’t stop, and I still don’t feel like I’ve made myself entirely clear. But I had to shut up at some point, or you’d just scroll down to the end and say “to heck with it” and click on the link to the Mormon Mommy Wars blog. So I ask your forgiveness in advance.

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I’m a Mormon who reads and a Mormon who writes, but I haven’t purchased LDS fiction from a bricks-and-mortar bookstore in almost a decade. Of course, I moved to Minnesota in 1998 and didn’t move back to Utah until 2006, so that’s one explanation. And I haven’t stayed away from LDS bookstores altogether. While I was a resident of the Land of 10,000 Lakes, I made many visits to the small LDS bookstore adjacent to a Quick Stop gas station and down the road from the Minnesota temple. But what did I buy when I was there? I bought sheet music for a Christmas quartet. Some of those “Help Me! I Can’t Think of What To Do For Sharing Time!” books. Little Articles of Faith cards to go in the Primary kids’ birthday bags. Every once in a while I’d buy a book by my favorite General Authority, and once I splurged and bought myself a copy of Rough Stone Rolling for Christmas. But even with all those visits to my independent LDS bookstore, I never bought a single work of fiction. And since I’ve moved back to Utah, I haven’t darkened the door of an LDS bookstore even once.

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