What are you reading this week?
Heads up, all Calgary Women’s Literary Club Members!
Did you know you could share comments on any of our posts? Just click on “Leave a Reply” and your WebNovice (er…WebMaster) will publish it.
ALSO…We are encouraging members of CWLC to share what they are reading on our website — on a regular basis!
Until your WebNovice (er… WebMaster) figures out a better way, just take advantage of “Leave a Reply” on the most current Post about what you are reading. You can simply mention the book title and author; OR Author, title, annotation; OR all of the above with a more critical comment. The WebNovice will turn that into a short post, and categorize it “I’m reading…”
I’ll give this a first try in my next post.
STAY POSTED (excuse the pun!)
Lillian says:
This week I’m on a reading flight through “Adult Onset” by Ann-Marie MacDonald. The author has sold me a ticket to explore the joys, the pain, the confusions, the tensions of a lesbian marriage. The journey is fascinating.
Mary Rose (Mister), the main character, is a stay-at-home Mom raising two pre-schoolers, while her partner is often absent in her job as director of theatre productions. Each day has its turbulent moments…her toddler daughter is going through the “terrible twos”, her mother, Dolly, has symptoms of dementia, Mary Rose, herself a writer, has issues with anger management.
Woven into the narrative is Mary Rose’s struggle with the chronic discomfort of bone cysts, and her attempts to understand her own troubled childhood.
MacDonald pilots her novel at an accelerated pace. The reader cruises from crises to crises, carried along by humor and perceptive portrayals of domestic life.