Book Recs and Loaners
Day 19 of 31: 200 Words-A-Day Challenge
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Book Recs and Loaners
Like many writers, for much of my childhood, I had my nose in a book. My dad often did too, or else a newspaper (remember those?). Both of us have always been at our most comfortable in the respectful silence that happens when avid readers are together with one another and their reading material. We quickly ease back into that relaxed, old pattern when we’re together now.
Others in our family don’t really understand us. Don’t tell them, but we don’t care. We just keep reading.
When I visit my dad, I usually read far more than I do when I’m home amid day-to-day distractions and responsibilities. Some of that is due to the aforementioned pattern we slip into; some of it is because we share many interests, talk about books a lot, and thus, inevitably, he has another one to loan me. I often finish whatever title I brought along, start the new one he’s provided, and sometimes finish that one too.
This visit, the loaner is The Class of ’65: A Student, A Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness, by Jim Auchmutey, former reporter and editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. My dad says it should be required reading for everyone.
The book’s timeframe falls squarely into the decade that my curiosity keeps bringing me back to again and again. The Civil Rights Era plays strongly in the storyline of my novel so this book will likely offer some helpful insights.
So excuse me now until tomorrow. I finished Michelle Miller’s memoir Belonging, and my loaner awaits.
Your Prompt / Day 19 of 31
Were you a book-nerd as a child? If so, was there someone in your life who inspired your propensity toward reading? What books influenced younger you? As an adult, are you a book reader? What are you reading now?
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