19 Minutes...and into the Summer...

Okay -- change gears. No poetry at this time, but I did finish a book, so I thought I'd share. :)

I read Jodi Picoult's 19 Minutes, which revolves around a high school shooting. Our book club at work decided to read it because we thought it would be good to read something we might be able to identify with.

And that's the reason why I sometimes dreaded picking it up.

It was very moving and disturbing, as it should be, even though there were a few plot lines that I felt were simply contrived. But it definitely made me stop to consider what I do at work to stop bullying.

Now I'm moving on to more summer reading, which I needed to be a little lighter after such a heavy story. So, I'm reading the chick-lit Friday Night Knitting Club and reading a little bit of Anne Sexton's poems in Transformations, which are all her own versions of traditional fairy tales. I also started Margret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, which is a terrifying dystopian story of a new government with very different roles for women, but alas, it was too deep to directly follow 19 Minutes and will have to wait. Oh, and I've checked out yet another one of Louise Erdrich's books from the library, but this time on CD, so I can listen to it while hanging out at the pool.