Tomorrow is the begining of the newest Buy a Friend a Book Week!

This is not a plea for more books. No, this is me asking you to buy one of your friends a book next week for no good reason because it's good for the karma; because there's nothing more awesome than a friend saying "this is an awesome book. Read this."

If I could give you a book, I'd give you "Red Sky at Morning" by Richard Bradford, a coming-of-age tale set in northern New Mexico during the last year of World War II. Even though we're now sixty years removed from that Sagrado, it still stands as a beautifully rendered portrait of my state and the people.

And if I could give Adam a book, I would give him a new copy of "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, because he is the only person I know who didn't read it in the eighth grade and my copy is from the eighth grade and is kind of falling apart at the seams from my annual readings.

What book would you give me?