How Many Books? How Many Days?

One Hundred Names For Love by Diane Ackerman, started my reading binge last week. It is a story about a stroke, a marriage and the language of healing. Brilliant book about living, in all its pitfalls and glory. My highlights on the kindle, are very random, and will not help you understand the story. They are amusing in their , out of context, form. He collected words like rare buttons. When you can't, toss drop cloths over everything, lower the heat to save energy and allow a sedated overseer to take charge. We all need a sedated overseer from time to time!!! Who knew what lay ahead. I laughed at myself remembering Dorothy Parker's quip: "What fresh hell is this?" awesome. I felt tired as wet sand!!! store this in my memory bank. Never before did I have to store someone else's trauma. Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they color and clarify everything.Women ply the rapids of language more easily. Can you see the rhythm of this writer? Creativity is an intellectual adventure into jungles where jaguars of sweet laughter croon, with a willingness to double back, ignore fences, or switch directions at the drop of a coconut. This intimate story, touched my heart, made me cackle and required me to read slowly. July has afforded me several other jewels, A Good Hard Look, by Ann Napolitano. A novel about Flannery O'Connor's hometown in Milledgeville, Georgia with all of her wit and peacocks. Southern crazy and perfect. Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, full tilt different from the other two books. This book may haunt you, and it will hold onto you forever. The Holocaust continues to make us examine humanity. All of these books were delicious, I ate them all up. You can feast on them also, that is what sharing is all about. Share with me some of your favorites.