So Seriously Reading...

After having read several of Shannon Hales's books (Princess Academy, Goose Girl, Austen Land, & The Actor and the Housewife), Book of a Thousand Days is my favorite. It is the story of a servant who volunteers to go with her mistress when her father sentences her to seven years in a tower for disobeying him. Beautifully told, and a fast read (as it is a youth book).