Our fantastic five just finished Kelly Corrigan’s The Middle Place. I for one, LOVED IT!! I had picked up and considered buying this book three if not four times. But for one reason or another, I’d put it back down, vowing to find it again some day. My day came when it was my turn to pick our next book. It is all about the “middle place” between being an adult, with your own responsibilities, family, troubles, and still being a child. Someones child. Someone who still wants to protect you, and yet, may need your protection too. Both Kelly and her father face cancer, as individuals, as a daughter, as a father, but also as a family. I laughed out loud, and cried too, all in the first fifty or so pages. She calls out herself when she is being bitchy, ridiculous, tired, and cranky. She wonders at times why her husband even bothers to put up with her, and why on earth her young children still love her, after a particularly cranky afternoon. She artfully describes her emotions, her fears, her deep down troubled thoughts. I found myself completely enraptured, and loved every minute of this story. Needless to say I highly recommend this book. It is right up there with Eat Pray Love on my list. Top five for sure. I haven’t met with my book club yet, so I’m not sure if they are all in love with it like me. But I am. And sometimes that is all that counts.
) and they were two of the first to get married after highschool. I am so happy for them, they have a wonderful family, and are doing great. I loved chasing after your boys that day, you have done a great job!
