Meander

A bit of insomnia for the early bird this morning, so I thought I'd catch you up on what I've been reading. So I tried to be all literary and read this year's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, March by Geraldine Brooks. And instead I just didn't read for several days. I am going to try again, but for now I am returning to chick lit and popular fiction that so easily helps me escape when I get home from work. One recent read was Julia Glass' The Whole World Over. (You may remember Julia Glass if you read Three Junes.) I enjoyed Ms. Glass' most recent novel, although the end deals a bit with September 11th, which made me not want to read it, I must admit. However, the characters are really engaging and I think she writes about the difficulties and rewards of marriage pretty well. I also just finished an old one from Elizabeth Berg, What We Keep. It's about mothers, sisters and daughters and reevaluating events from the past that you believed in your core to have happened one way; only to look back with the benefit of experience to realize you might be wrong. I think it also makes you think about how easy it is to blame your parents for things when they are simply other human beings trying to get it right too.