Entry Ten: Outside Reading

The whole genocide thing was getting a little too much to handle for right now, so I'm taking a break. I have started Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult. As of the first couple pages I learn one of the main characters is Delia. She is going to get married, she's a cop of come sort (looking for missing children?), has a daughter named Sophie, and her mother died when she was four years old. She talks about how naive she was and how she never understood why her mother couldn't just come home. "It took me a lifetime to realize things don't get lost if they have value--you don't miss what you don't care about..." (page 7). I thought this quote was very interesting. Children really do have a way about themselves at a young age, why this, why that? They're curious and for a good reason. They don't know anything, what is in the world to come. How could you miss something you don't care about? What ever it was was nothing to you. Or is it everything and you just don't realize it? The story starts off with Delia finding a little girl that had gone missing, her thoughts about it, and the unbearable pain she would feel if her daughter, Sophie, went missing. I feel like this somehow foreshadows the upcoming plot. Something has to go missing. A book has to start with something right? And it can't be irrelevant.