I've spent the better part of the last few weeks plowing through John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany". "The World According to Garp" is one of my favorite books so I had high expectations for this one. I absolutely loved it and found it very hard to put it down - Irving has this great way of traveling through decades of stories and winding them together without losing focus on what he's trying to tell the reader. And as the back cover warned me, the character of Owen Meany was absolutely heart warming and heartbreaking. This book caught my attention at the most appropriate time in my life and I am so very glad that I read it. And just like "Garp", I immediately want to read it again for anything I might have missed.
Next up: "Good In Bed" by Jennifer Weiner. It seems that I've been reading nothing but stories relating to wartime communities, of boys becoming men at the loss of something very important. To give my mind a break (and slowly but surely return my growing stack of borrowed books), I'm making a one-day read of this book. It's a story of a girl coming to terms with her own fatness - which is difficult to read at points because it is somewhat poorly written, and as a fat girl myself, causes me to feel unnaturally guilty and worried that I actually sound and act like this character. I may not finish it, but it'll keep me somewhat entertained for this rainy day.
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