I'm a person who lives in DENIAL. It's my coping mechanism of choice. I'm very good at it as I've had years of practice. One thing I am currently in denial about is how late Thanksgiving is this year. I'm pretending I don't know that Christmas is literally right around the corner. I actually refuse to entertain any notions of CHRISTMAS until after Thanksgiving. NO CHRISTMAS SONGS, SHOPPING---NOTHING. This ridiculous thinking will obviously come back and bite me in the BUTT--but I can't possibly go there yet. I'll be the one running around like a nut trying to get it all done after Thanksgiving--but that's okay. It's how I role--one day at a time. Living in denial is much easier when you live in books. Just finished burying my head in an unputdownable book called
All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. Set in Monta Clare, a small town in Missouri in 1975, Patch is a poor, thirteen year old boy who thinks he's a pirate. He befriends a misfit named Saint after learning she's a beekeeper. Their friendship is steadfast until one day-- Patch is kidnapped while trying to save a local girl named Misty. After Patch goes missing, other girls are kidnapped and officials realize they have a serial killer on their hands. When Patch is finally rescued, things are never the same. Don't want to say much more other than the novel spans several decades as Saint becomes a detective, the search for the killer continue and Patch spends several years searching for missing victims. This is a great book--the characters are super interesting, the writing is great, and the plot twists and turns many times. It's a suspenseful, tragic love story that does ends on a hopeful note.
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