When we left cuba series6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s the perfect time to catch up on reading. Texas gets HOT, and that means many days either by the pool or propped up under the air conditioning at home. Year after year, summer would come around and subsequently so would requests for book recommendations. ![]() Nancy Drew studiously kept watch over the creeping shadows of my room at night for me, and Betty Ren Wright’s novel The Dollhouse Murders helped me pass summer after summer in the humid Louisiana countryside. My best friends were Kristy and Mary Anne from Ann M. I wonder sometimes if authors realize the impact they can have when they sit down to pen a novel. Much like they did for Matilda, books took on a pivotal role in the person I ended up becoming as an adult. Books meant being able to escape a childhood that was teeming with abuse and mixed messages. Everyone who knows me knows I’m obsessed with books and reading. ![]() I’d just celebrated the first anniversary of my little writing blog, and I was high on its unexpected success. ![]() It was about a year ago when I requested this little book called Next Year in Havana. “Tonight, I looked at myself in the mirror, and it occurred to me that perhaps adulthood has come not with a white gown and a view thrust upon me against my wishes, but rather in this moment, with this decision to claim my womanhood, to use it to get what I want rather than what everyone else wants for me. ![]()
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