What are you reading this week of February 21, 2016?

[hermetic]

I finished Reflections in a Golden Eye and that was quite grim. I did not see the movie but read that it followed the book closely. Only in the book she didn't strike her husband after the horse incident.

Now I've started The Ballad of the Sad Café. Again, this is a story about an eccentric group of characters in a small Southern town. Again she writes all of her characters with a real sense of empathy so that you feel for them in spite of their quirks. She never seems to make judgments about them. They just are who they are and do what they do.

I've been reading a lot about her life, Carson McCullers, and she seems quite amazing. She suffered terrible illnesses: rheumatic fever, strokes, alcoholism, one attempted suicide By the age of 31 her left side was entirely paralyzed. Then, at age 50, she had a massive brain hemorrhage and died. On my birthday!

So, what are you reading now!