Maybe I should write a memoir. Or not. Anyways, last week was a rough week. Had a couple of deaths to contend with. One was very shocking. A friend that I'm going to miss dearly. And the other was a bit more expected and actually a sort of blessing. I'll miss them both a lot.
I could wax on about that for a bit, but I suppose rather than focusing on the morbid (of which I did a lot of last week) I shall focus on the latest book I just finished. I finished The Kitchen God's Wife on Saturday. It was a great book. Amy Tan is really a wonderful author. I love how she's able to switch between the mother's point of view to the daughter's so easily. It's really fluid. It was a great story about mother and daughter keeping secrets from one another because they thought it was best if the other didn't know. As soon as all the secrets are revealed, they become much closer than they ever were. The daughter finally understands why her mother is and has been the way that she will always be. Makes me wonder a little more about my parents and how they grew up, my Mom especially. She's told me little things here and there, but I don't think she likes talking about it too much. And I know her life growing up in India must have been so very different than my life growing up here.
I was starting to read, "Honey Don't" by Tim Sandlin, but was having trouble getting into it, so my friend gave me "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers to read instead. This one is supposed to be a little bit humorous, which I think I need right now.
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