Today will be a plain day.
I’m well acquainted with plain days.
They move uneventfully along the conveyor belt of life. In fact, they’re the days which kept the
conveyor belt cogs oiled: washing clothes, cleaning the house, grocery
shopping, paying bills, phone calls, filing away bank statements… but then it
was while I was scrubbing our crusted up ole oven, thinking there has to be a
reward for getting myself through another plain day. And there is! And the end of this day, my plain
monochromatic day is a book for me to finish reading, Creepy and Maud by West
Australian author Dianne Touchell. Fremantle Press. There is nothing plain about this book. Far
from! Promoted as being for Young
Adults, I loved reading it despite the fact that the last time I looked in the
mirror I was definitely middle-aged. Creepy
and Maud is a heart breaking yet uplifting book for all ages. The prose is sensitive, poetic and humorous
by turns. It’s worth going through a plain day when you’ve got a rather special
reward waiting for you at the end of it – Creepy and Maud.
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