My parents' friends are interesting people. And I mean that in a good way, not in a "well, that was...interesting" way. For the most part, their friends are a lot like them: they travel frequently, read quite a bit, pursue their various hobbies and interests, and usually know the useless bits of trivia on Jeopardy.
As I've gotten older, I've begun to appreciate how much we can learn from them and that as much as we believed when we were younger life sort of ended at 40 and you became this boring blob of moving flesh, the parents of today are much...dare I say it...cooler, than we thought.
Case in point: Ilana DeBare. Believe it or not I used to babysit her daughter who is now in high school. (Wow I'm getting old!) I stumbled across her blog an embarrassingly long time after accepting her friend request on Facebook and have been catching up ever since. I found this review of David Grossman's To the End of the Land and was awed. Not only am I escalating this book to the top of my reading "queue", but I hope to be inspired by her beautiful writing to make my now seemingly kindergartenesque blog (with invented words) slightly better. Here's the link for those interested:
http://midlifebatmitzvah.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/ilanas-book-of-the-year-to-the-end-of-the-land/
Status update on my current reading: Currently on page 218 of 267 in Packing the Court. Slow going as I keep falling asleep while reading it. (A testament to my permanent state of exhaustion and also the book's boringness.) I expect to finish tonight and if tomorrow is another slow day at work, possibly post a review at that time.
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