Summer reading book 1: While I Was Gone
93 pages in and I love this book. It is so refreshing to be reading fiction again - a real book. For the past academic year I have read nothing more than information about counseling theory, substance abuse, and study upon study for research papers. I love counseling, do not get me wrong. I love counseling. But I do oh so miss literature.
“This is it: silence between us. The only sound the noises of the boat—the squeal of the oarlocks when my husband pulled on the oars, the almost inaudible creak of the wooden seat with his slightest motion, and then the glip and liquid swirl of the oars through the water, and the sound of the boat rushing forward” (Miller 3). <— Oh, MLA formatting, how I have missed you! APA has held me captive in my new field…
