Aging and Change and Methamphetamines

Recently, Oprah offered a free download of Jill Ciment's "Heroic Measures." (Don't you love what Oprah has done for reading in this country?!) I've been reading it in bits and pieces, snatching peeks in the middle of other tasks. I'm enjoying it very much.

I especially liked the scene with Debbie, who is briefly held hostage by the terrorist. She shares a little crystal meth with the terrorist, even though she's been clean for three months. Then she asks the terrorist if he minds her praying. She tells the reporter "God heard me even though I was high."

There was something about Debbie and the reporter and the dialogue between them that just tickled me.

The book, to me, is a sweet view into the lives of a childless couple in their late 70s who have been married to each other forever, at their familiarity and intimacy, at their approach to change as they prepare to sell their Manhattan apartment, and at their love for their "child", an equally aging dachshund.

Thanks, Oprah, for a free read.

What are you reading?