I love the Southside library in Santa Fe. It's a little far out of town, but it's new and huge, and my random walks down the fiction aisles always yield some great reading. I was encouraged by the librarian at the busy circulation desk..she said people are reading more now, instead of just going to the movies and watching videos at home. A little silver lining to the current economic situation, I'm thinking.
I've been luxuriating in reading, both stuff related to my work and fiction, over the holidays. I just finished "Love in the Present Tense" by Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of "Pay it Forward."
I am so moved by the story...it is about real love and about what really matters. It also shows you life from the point of view of the amazing character of Leonard, whose mother disappears when he is 5, who never stops trusting or believing in forever love..which he knows
his mother had and still has for him.
here's a snippet..Leonard and Mitch go for a walk (Leonard is 18 at the time and Mitch has been like a father to him though not his adoptive father. They are sitting on a park bench at night). I hope this gives you a little taste and makes you want to read this beautiful book yourself.
"What's different about tonight?" I asked Mitch.
"What do you mean?"
"Just what I said. What's special tonight?"
"Nothing", he said. "It's just like every other night."
"No way. Wrong. No night is just like every other night.
You're not looking close enough".
"I'm looking as best I can" he said. "Nothing's different."
"If I could see," I said, "I'd find something. You know I
would."
"Yeah," Mitch said. "You probably would."
"So look the way I would. Come on, Mitch. It'll be good
for you."
He was quite for a full minute or two. Then he said,
"There's a ring around the moon tonight."
"Good," I said. "That's a good start."
happy reading,
Ellen
I've been luxuriating in reading, both stuff related to my work and fiction, over the holidays. I just finished "Love in the Present Tense" by Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of "Pay it Forward."
I am so moved by the story...it is about real love and about what really matters. It also shows you life from the point of view of the amazing character of Leonard, whose mother disappears when he is 5, who never stops trusting or believing in forever love..which he knows
his mother had and still has for him.
here's a snippet..Leonard and Mitch go for a walk (Leonard is 18 at the time and Mitch has been like a father to him though not his adoptive father. They are sitting on a park bench at night). I hope this gives you a little taste and makes you want to read this beautiful book yourself.
"What's different about tonight?" I asked Mitch.
"What do you mean?"
"Just what I said. What's special tonight?"
"Nothing", he said. "It's just like every other night."
"No way. Wrong. No night is just like every other night.
You're not looking close enough".
"I'm looking as best I can" he said. "Nothing's different."
"If I could see," I said, "I'd find something. You know I
would."
"Yeah," Mitch said. "You probably would."
"So look the way I would. Come on, Mitch. It'll be good
for you."
He was quite for a full minute or two. Then he said,
"There's a ring around the moon tonight."
"Good," I said. "That's a good start."
happy reading,
Ellen
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