What I'm Reading

I've already mentioned my great love for Anne Tyler so talking about one of her books again seems redundant but I enjoyed this so much. It's a bit of a departure for Tyler, first person, the narrator is a man who was troubled in his youth and now, in his adulthood works at a company that does errands for the elderly. I loved it for its meditations on old age, which will come to all of us eventually. Maybe because the life I'm living now is an old person's life. I barely leave my house. I have small interests like reading or jigsaw puzzles. I have a routine I stick to. I feel my thirty ninth year slipping through my fingers as much as thirty eight did. I have a milestone birthday this year, perhaps that's what sending me down these paths. Forty isn't seventy but this isn't how I thought I'd be spending the last few months of my thirties either. Anyway, I loved this book. Compulsively readable like all of Tyler's, but different, harder, less gentle. I think you'll like it. #bookstagram #mrmbookclub #121in2021 #annetyler #apatchworkplanet