Food
I am very glad that I picked up "The Stones Diaries" in a charity shop a month ago. Over the course of the past few days, I consumed it like good food. It really held me and I admired several things about the writer - Carol Shields. I appreciated her humanity, wisdom and keen understanding of the human condition. Furthermore, I enjoyed the novel's quirky, clever and varied construction. In addition, I admired her use of language. Words being used to make telling points like daggers or smoothing like a gentle balm. And there was plenty of humour too. How can I say it - this book was very much "alive". Filled with joy and sorrow and misunderstanding and eccentricity and kindness and stupidity and hope. Of course, I could go on explaining the plot, describing the central character - Daisy Goodwill and the eighty years of life she experienced before dying - as so many aged and financially stable North Americans do - in Florida. Instead, I am just going to lea...