Do you ever take on the mood of something you're reading? I do. Unfortunately. Or fortunately, depending upon the material I'm mentally consuming. Right now I'm reading We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. It came out five years ago and I never heard a word about it. I wonder if it was due to it's dark material.... I don't know. The book is written in letters by Eva to her husband. Their son committed mass murder at his high school, an event that Eva refers to only as Thursday . I've not finished it yet---but I will. Her thoughts on getting pregnant and bringing home her son are confusing to me. I know everyone is different and though we may experience the same things (childbirth), not everyone processes those same experiences in the same manner. We don't react in similiar ways----but her feelings and thoughts on this matter are foreign to me. Oh, not the tiredness, but the resentment she seems to have over this child who took her body
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