Books!

I finally made it to the library last Saturday. I could never keep track of their hours and arrived to closed doors night after night. I was at the post office across the street from the library, mailing a letter and photos to Trina in Spain, and saw the library was obviously open.
I recently decided, in January perhaps, to only read female authors for a period. I noticed how my personal library was almost completely devoid of female authors and surmised that my reading habits have been much the same. Given the overriding male dominance of our society, I believe I can learn and grow by gaining a richer gender perspective---perhaps the next step will be ethnic diversity in my reading.
In this pursuit, I checked out five books by female authors:

• The Poisonwood Bible and Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
• Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell
• The Collected Short Fiction of Virginia Woolf
• The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

Pigs in Heaven is wonderfully intense and emotionally involving. I much enjoyed recognizing Barbara Kingsolver's narrative voice from Bean Trees, of which PiH is the sequel.
I will now take a break from work and writing to eat some lunch and perhaps to read my book.