HAD COVID. AND IT WASN'T PRETTY. The whole shabang. Headache-fever-body aches-nauseous. SICK IN BED. Even worse though--I lost my sense of SMELL AND TASTE. It's coming back now but it was the strangest thing. Imagine NOT having coffee for 3-4 days because you are too nauseous. That was me. One morning when I was feeling better I decided to try coffee--AND I COULDN'T TASTE IT. I thought there was something wrong with the coffee--BUT NO--there was something wrong with me. Then I went outside to try to smell my favorite flowers--LILACS--AND I COULDN'T SMELL A THING. I literally buried my face in the flowers. NO LUCK. What a bummer. Guess I'll have to wait til next year. Then my husband got COVID. He barely had a head cold. Go figure. It's strange how differently COVID affects people. There is NO rhyme or reason--booster or NO Booster. Seems like everyone I know is getting COVID. Take care--partner. If there is one book you read in your life then it should be
The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne. This is the life story of Cyril Avery told in first person. He was born in Ireland in 1945 to an unwed 16 year old mother who was banished from her hometown. Cyril is then adopted by a strange, wealthy couple, Maude and Charles Avery, and grows up in a loveless home. Life is difficult for Cyril because he comes to realize that he is a homosexual living in ultra conservative Catholic Ireland His story spans seven decades where he lives in Dublin, Amsterdam, New York and then back to Dublin. The characters in the story are beautifully written and wonderfully quirky. The dialogue is perfect. Not a wasted word. This lovely novel is as much about Irish history as it is Cyril's quest to discover his true self and where he belongs. I literally laughed out loud SO many times when I read this book but it is equally heartbreaking and real. I honestly can't say enough about it. Even though it is almost 600 pages or a 6 mile run--I guarantee that you will NOT want it to end. This book has made it to my top 10 books of all time--that's how much I loved it. Let me know what you think.
