Age appropriate?! After a conversation about Pat Conroy (how can he not be one of your favorite authors?) I spent the day thumbing through one of his novels. Jack took an immediate interest. He "read" the book to me over and over again, something about an "eep" here and an "eep" there. I'm sure there is wisdom in there somewhere. Let us hope he enjoys such books as he gets older. [More on Conroy]