Helen Plus Three

Another good book! Meg Wolitzer writes with great depth. I was nodding and agreeing with many instances of expression, these were moments I had gone through in my life growing up and thoughts even today. Really good piece of work, insightful. Very realistically describes thoughts, fears, doubts of individuals from teenage to senior life. One could probably identify with a character of the group who are all so diverse even though they met in the same place for a similar purpose. It boils down to two characters really seeing from within and without. I keep telling myself to mark those great lines, but I never remember to.. there were many but I located only one ...what holding a job demands of an individual... " a job outside the house that would require energy and focus and exactness and calm." A perfect description of what being at work or the office entails vs being at home.. and sometimes we are  just not all  that...

As I got out of the train this morning, I was thinking what if it slipped out of my hand and fell through the gap. I'm reading a book, and well as much as the style of it is loose, the story is kind of depressing, yet funny in a dark sort of way !. Perhaps it is just not my cup of tea, not sure why I picked it. I started it about a week ago, and I usually don't take that long to finish a book. What am I reading, it's by Jess Walter - The Financial Lives of the Poets -.  It 's not really about poetry but about this guy who lost his job and then is loosing his self esteem ( along with everything else ... wife, self confidence... honesty..)  but thinks himself a poet of sorts. It's about reacting to crisis. It's amazing what can happen when you go out late to buy MILK. Anyway I am halfway through the book  (the Hero has not yet, is almost about to become a drug buyer to  'ínvest' and grow his money that is, before he loses his house),  and this mor...

I finished reading Kate Morton's 'Secret Keeper' a while back and then I thought I should not have started reading it at the time I did. Certain types of writing require more restfulness than others to be able to enjoy all of the book. The story that unfolds is the type that one should read in the right frame of mind - when you are less harried by other pressing stuff of daily routines.  I find myself going over many parts of the book again at different times. The story was intriguing, so much so that I wanted to know how it ended instead of also enjoying( reflecting on)  the prose and the many sentiments of life as was depicted of the young and old. The story essentially spans almost 70 years from the war to recent 2011.  I wanted to share one of the parts that had me reflecting. A passage that gave me pause was about the sick, aging mother, and the daughter's(Laurel) thoughts about why her mother did not feel  surprise...."Her mother didn't ask why, an...