By my record keeping, I've read about 3 books per month in 2013. This does not include the hours & hours I've spent reading Harry Potter & Percy Jackson books to the boy. We finished all 5 Jackson books and really loved them. I've been in a reading rut the past few months-- I even have piles of unread New Yorkers laying around. Here's to going new places in 2014!
I started this blog before facebook as a way to comment on friends' blogs and over the years I've used it for different purposes. To share my reading list, to muse, but now, after 8 years as a single mom to most incredible boy, I've remarried and I thought I'd share our story of becoming the "Waki Family."
12.28.2013
"Transatlantic" Colum McCann
“They were pouring down their winnowed bitterness, and in
his silence he just kept thrashing, spluttering, pushing the words away. A refusal to drown. What nobody noticed, not even himself,
was that the grain kept rising, and the silo filled, but he kept rising with
it, and the sounds grew different, word upon word, falling around him, building
beneath him. And now-at the top of
the silo- he has clawed himself up and dusted himself off and he stands there
equal with the pourers who are astounded by the language that lies below
them. They glance at each
other. Three ways down…They can
fall into the grain and drown, they can jump off the edge and abandon it, or
they can learn to sow it very slowly at their feet.”
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