Visitors, while lovely, also usually mean a break from writing. So the day my lovely visitor left, I read two books. To make up for lost time. The first is this:
Title: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
Author: Elisa Juska
Thoughts: A lilting, melodic book. I love the way Juska uses words, and I found her writing tender and evocative. It was also one of those books that, although probably not the author's intention, profoundly affected me. It made me think about sisterhood and friendship, love and life, feeling like you're never going to be what you thought or dreamed you could be when you were young. It didn't offer any easy answers, and I appreciated that even as I wished for more closure. I wanted another chapter, another moment, even though I know why the story ended where it did.
When I first saw the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind I cried through almost the entire thing. Most people don't understand why. Hell, I'm not even sure I understand why. This book reminded me a little of that, even though the stories are not similar at all. Something about the writing, the story, reached in under all my defenses and tugged on my heart until the only response I had was to weep over it and hope for a happier ending, somewhere in the imagined future.
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