There is nothing like being able to just throw up on a blog and write everything down. There is so much going on in my head these days, and yet, I'm so busy that I just can't specify one individual thing that is really hogging more mental cognition than any other.
I've been reading a lot. Or I was, until this last week hit and I spent more time training an incompetent employee than having time to myself. UGH. This woman drives me crazy. She is the epitome of slow. And, though she sees the need to write everything down, she doesn't seem to be able to remember anything at all. She has a chronic back problem which doesn't enable her to stand for long periods of time. I'd like to point out that in retail, you're standing for a good portion of a nine to ten hour shift. I'm not sure how this is going to work out. I don't know why my boss hired a 'friend' to work with us. She's dumb and slow and supposedly is well educated and can speak something like four languages, though english is apparently not one of them.
So, what have I read lately,
My Sister's Keeper: By Jodi Piccoult. I've gotten addicted to her novels by the way. She's real in a sense that everything she writes about is considered a taboo subject that you don't hear much about in your day to day life.
So far I've read My Sister's Keeper, Handle with Care, Vanishing Act, Second Glance, Change of Heart... I think that's it. I currently have two on my list, The Tenth Circle, and Songs of a Humpback Whale.
Is it funny or weird to think that I have found more of myself in these books than any others. I think the way she thinks, the way she writes. I love her writing style, though I hate the style done by other artists. The book I've liked the most so far was Second Glance. It was a story about a washed up ghost hunter, who ended up falling in love with a ghost and solving a centuries old mystery. But the beauty of the words was quite challenging. It took longer for the six degrees of separation to come together. It was quite a well written piece. I really loved it. Reading it made me feel a peace I've never felt before. I don't know what it was, but it gave me a belief in people which I think I may have otherwise forgotten over time. I'm not sure why it gave me this sense of peace, but it did.
Her other books are just as life changing. Handle with Care's last page made me cry. and then...throw the book across the room. I was not pleased. There are some rules to writing you just don't break. She made me mad.
I have some more things to write about, but I think they need their own spaces....
