"If I had been asked to report on middle age when I was halfway through my fifties, I would have said that it was too bleak to talk about. Much too bleak if you believed, as I passionately did, that your life has been a failure."For some, that bleak beginning -- in a chapter titled "The Low Point" in the second of two memoirs when I haven't read the first one -- would be enough to send them scurrying for another book. But no, I'm interested and want to continue.
If this is the low point, then things must get better. I became even more interested in reading about her life when I discovered she and I were both born in 1940.
If you want to play along, this meme is hosted by Katy at A Few More Pages. Click this link to see the beginnings of other people's books.
4 comments:
Start out bleak and work your way up, it's much better than the other way around!
I agree, Helen!
I'm reading it now. I recognize the same Irish angst in me. I'm enjoying the book very much.
I'm also part Irish, Colleen. Maybe that's why I'm getting into the book so well.
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