on reading and rain
Maybe it's the rain.
According to the Bay Area local news, out of 29 days in the month of March we have had 24 days of rain. Trees are sliding off hillsides and the grass is green like Ireland green. I have been reading like a fiend while the world gets doused.
And you know who's so great? Lily Tuck. Martha McPhee. Hiilary Mantel. And have you ever read Barbara Pym?
These are all cheap paperbacks I picked up last week (except for the Barbara Pym - a re-read) and I can unequivocably recommend all of them. When I read like this I feel like a sullen teenager, like happy while I'm reading and then I don't. want. to. talk. about. it. I'm so nose-forward in a book, leave-me-alone, and word-hungry these days. I just need salty snacks and the occasional pitter-patter of conversation while I turn the pages of a book, and look up and out the window at the rain.
Some great reviews coming on Grace next month, let me tell ya...