It first appealed to me as a book rather than a cookbook. I was a real bookworm and it just seemed sort of mysterious and adult and slightly dangerous.

We're all bookworms, and we're all reading the same book. -Facebook

No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such a bookworm. I would barely look up to notice much of anything.

Everyone and Everything is conspiring to end up in a book.

Books, I think, are what magic smells like.

I was given the book to read first of all and I found it totally inspiring, arousing and very moving. I literally couldn't put it down. There is something intoxicating about Marie's belief, not just in herself, but in the children at the school and in humanity - we need that!