Amy, I actually loved the protagonist in Dark Places the best. I loved how completely and unapologetically fucked up she was.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
It's the start of a semester, and I have to read a book for class. Anyone have suggestions for good books that deal with "health and aging"? Can be fiction or non-fiction, but I'm not sure how far we can get into supernatural metaphor before I lose my instructor.
Madeleine L'Engle's The Summer of the Great Grandmother
t looks at Amazon
Interesting.
Her Crosswicks journals are beautifully written, and The Summer of the Great Grandmother is a thoughtful look at aging and dealing with an independent relative who is becoming dependent. Her novel A Severed Wasp also deals with aging.
Another possibility would be M.F.K. Fisher's collection Sister Age. >[link]
I like journals, so I would recommend May Sarton "At Seventy" or After the Stroke.
One I would NOT recommend--"My Stroke of Insight". Neuroscientist who had a stroke. Terrible writing.
wrod. Interesting story, but she couldn't tell it. Sometimes I wonder why certain books get so beloved.
(Takes off businessman's Stetson, for moment of silence.)