Booking through Thursday… on Saturday

This week’s question asked what the most unusal book we’ve read was.  I’ve read a lot of books that are outside my comfort zone, but the most memorable one was Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet.  Carrington is a surrealist painter who utilized her ideas about art to portray a similar effect in her writing.  It’s a very original piece about a woman who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet and when she can finally hear what her family is saying, she realizes they want to put her in a nursing home.  Once she gets there, however, she finds that it is not an ordinary nursing home, and the tale of what happens at the nursing home begins to get very incredible (to start, the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos).  It’s a fun and impertinent book, unique and well written.    Highly recommended for your library.