Can you believe it is August already? It's not such a bad thing, maybe, that the year feels like it is flying by. The sooner it is over, the better (and maybe the closer we will be to better and healthier times). My August prompt was meant to be 'la dolce vita', but life is just not feeling very sweet right now and I was not feeling very inspired when thinking about books.
I have for some time, however, been thinking of the pile of books by my bedside. Now I do my daily (well, my own version of) yoga routine in my bedroom. Sitting on the floor I'm at birds eye view of the little stacks and they keep beckoning to me. Why ignore them. So here are five possibilities. Never judge a book by the cover? Well, just a cover and a line or two from the novel to help decide.
"First of all, it seemed to us you were very handsome. And the principle windows of your house were perfectly positioned to display a blazing reflection at sunset."
"Where did life go? Everyday I find myself asking this one same question of the mirror, yet the answer always eludes me. All I see if a stranger staring back."
"Her destination was the Mirrormakers' Club, but she did not know it. Her feet guided her through the two-hour walk through to the City of London, that maze of streets which sat behind ancient walls in the heart of the wider city."
"Amma is walking along the promenade of the waterway that bisects her city, a few early morning barges cruise slowly by"
"One we had a father, but our father dies without us noticing. It's wrong to say we don't notice. We are just absorbed in ourselves, that afternoon when he dies."
How to choose. I might just close my eyes, spin around a few times and point to the one I will read. But will I stick to it, or look at the ones not chosen longingly?