summer
Summer has finally arrived here and I find that I am not as enamored with it as I was when I was younger. The temp is 90° and very humid. Needless to say I spend as little time outside as possible. I started swimming laps two days ago and the night after the first time I swam I awakened and thought that something was desperately wrong. My legs felt like they were going numb. In the morning I realized that it was because I swam laps and was very out of shape. I am back to normal now and am taking it easy getting up to the 12 lengths I usually swim.
I finished reading The Girls by Laura Lansens. I mistakenly thought that she wrote Memoirs of a Geisha because of a blurb on the cover. That author mentioned that it was a remarkable novel. It is a novel about the life of co-joined twin girls joined at the head. The narrator is mostly one of the twins but they both contribute. I found it mildly interesting, especially the parts about how they got around etc but found myself skimming over much of the book. It takes place in Canada near Toronto. They were born during a tornado and their Mother abanded them. A nurse assisting in the delivery adopted them and she and her husband raised them. They lived to be a little over 30 and the book ends with them near death.