Is it boiling where you live? Southern California recently experienced quite a heat wave, and I found myself spending a lot of time at the beach with my wife and kids. This is the perfect “beach book,” as it should take anyone less than a couple of hours to read (very tiny pages with very big writing, just as I like). I became interested in Anne’s diaries after reading about her in M. Scott Berg’s masterful biography of her husband, Charles Lindbergh, but it was not until picking up this little gem that I truly could appreciate what a wonderful writer Anne was. This book is almost as therapeutic to read as I am sure it was for her to write.