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ALL OF US AT THE SAME TIME
©Jo Dereske 2014Chapter 22
An End to Reading
Louise had always been a ravenous reader. She often talked about sneaking in reading when she was a girl while she was supposedly doing chores, or how she haunted the library in Chicago. She cut out poems and articles that stirred her and stockpiled them around the house. She’d been a faithful newspaper subscriber and magazine reader.
Now she claimed her glasses weren't strong enough for her to read. She’d been to the eye doctor only a month earlier, the optometrist she’d been seeing for years and had known since they were teenagers. “My, you’ve gotten old,” she’d blurted in shock when she saw him, and when he advised her she needed a new lens prescription, she said tersely, “I’ve always believed glasses are a bit of chicanery.”
"How about if I find you a large-print book at the library?" I asked.
"Like what?" she challenged.
I suggested Reader's Digest, thinking the short articles might hold her attention.
"Personally, I think Reader's Digest is boring," she sniffed. "I'd prefer a sexy novel."
At the library I examined the large-print collection. No sexy novels but I did find a humorous Gorge Burns book so I checked that out.
Louise thanked me and set the book on a coffee table.
And that was that. She wouldn't let me Read More