Footprints of a Pilgrim: The Life and Loves of Ruth Bell Graham
"I love the paint of words...." So begins a poem by Ruth Bell Graham, best  known as the wife of popular evangelist Billy Graham. Although poetry is at the  heart of this beautifully laid-out "scrapbook" of her life, there's much more here in the way of Graham memorabilia: antique photos, plaintive journal  entries, childhood drawings, love letters, and old college schedules:I can't remember when I wasn't scribbling something. I jot things down when I can't sleep or I'm too tired or I need to reflect on friends family, frustrations. Funny moments, notebook upon notebook, a storehouse of  memories...Like Graham herself, there's plenty of humor here, and just a spark of  mischief: whether it's her memories of breaking curfew in college and  getting grounded ("I found I had plenty of time to write"), or her thoughts on marriage ("Divorce never... murder maybe").Peppered throughout are short, boxed vignettes about Ruth written by her  children, her husband, one-time neighbor and crime novelist Patricia  Cornwell, author Jan Karon, and former First Lady Barbara Bush. By turns  poignant, humorous, and wistful, this scrapbook memoir is a fitting salute to an admired personality.--Cindy Crosby