What a week! Found out I have an inflamed gall bladder which doesn't have to come out right now, but later. Seems the weird little twinges and pain I've felt over the past couple years have been biliary colic. I have gall stones. I have a surgery consultation coming up next Wednesday. At this point, I think I'm about at 85 percent health wise. No pain, no tightness, and the fatigue is slowly getting better.
I closed out the month of February with The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore.
First Lines: "The day I met Arthur McLachlan was perfectly ordinary. I woke up at my usual hour, I ate my usual bowl of oatmeal, while hunched over the last few pages of my library copy of Parable of the Sower. I can't remember what I wore, but I'm pretty sure it was both machine washable and designed for comfort."
Sloane, Maisey, Mateo, Greg, and Arthur. What do all these people have in common. They've all experienced grief, or trauma in their earlier lives that have caused them to hide their true selves, burying themselves in other peoples lives, their children, their work, their books until one day Sloan decides to become involved in an angry old man's life. From there, it snowballs, in a good way, until each one together, give each other the strength, the power to make the changes necessary to accept their pasts, and move on into the future.
I loved the idea of highlighting pages in the books, conversations and quotes which spoke to the people the reader loved but couldn't express.
The Lonely Hearts Book Club was a beautiful story about standing up for yourself, finding yourself, helping others, and sharing your life.
Source Books 2023
Books about Books
Contemporary Fiction
356 Pages, ****
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