Love Out of Loss

Memoirs are usually about some of the hardest times in a persons life. It shows how they've grown into the person they are today. Everyone has a unique story to tell and most of them involve losing someone.

In Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen talks about being in a mental hospital. She has lost her privacy and possibly sanity but she can find love in the institution. She makes friends with the other girls and can enjoy her time. The book looked incredibly interesting. One of the lines that was in the trailer, "Whole families are crazy, but each family only has the money to put a few in the hospital to get fixed", really stuck with me. I thought it was an interesting view and very true. Why is one person considered crazier than the other? Aren't we all a little crazy?

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls is about a girl who grew up with parents that weren't real parents. She raised herself with the he-

lp of her siblings. She missed out on a lot growing up but she doesn't have a bad thing to say about her parents. They were terrible parents but they still all loved each other. I am reading this book next.

The Last Lecture is definitely a book about living life to the fullest. Randy Pausch is dying but that doesn't stop him for a minute. He would "never stop having fun". I don't know if I would read it but it sounded very interesting. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers is a story of loss. Both of Dave's parents die and he is left to care for his younger brother. This book is intriguing and I might read it.

Two Kisses for Maddy, by Matthew Lugelin is definitely on my books to read list! The father-daughter relationship is something I can really connect to. Having lost a parent myself I can relate. I saw my mom live for me and my brother like Matthew lives for Maddy.

A few other memoirs were presented this week but these were my favorite ones. Under the Overpass looked somewhat interesting but it didn't stick with me like the first ones did. The two about Navy Seals weren't interesting to me and looked intense. I LOVE having new books to read!