Yesterday I tried to go to the library. I was successful. I made it to the library, returned some books that were due, chose a dozen more and made a few copies for a project I'm working on. By the time I walked out of the library I was in the midst of some major contractions. Dang it. When I got home I had to lay down and stay very still for a while to try to help my body calm down.
Which is frustrating because the library is about as boring and easy an outing as I can think of. Granted I did select some heavy books and maybe I should have stuck with the more light weight paper backs but if I can't go to the library my world is a much sadder place.
My latest brilliant idea to help me ignore that the walls seem to be closing around me is to try to read a book from every country. I've been thinking about trying it for a few weeks now but today I'm going to start. I just happened to pick up How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez who also wrote In the Time of the Butterflies which I enjoyed a few years back. I enjoyed it even more because Aaron could never remember its name and kept referring to it as The Time of Crying Butterflies. Both books takes place in the US and the DR so I'll start with those locations and travel the world from there.
2 comments:
Good choice! I love Julia Alvarez. Aaron's title is pretty accurate too, there's lots of crying in that book.
I've always meant to read that book since I took Spanish/Latin American Lit.
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