Extra Credit Opportunity

Last Thursday, I attended one of the Rope Walk Reading Series programs featuring Lili Wright. She read a collection of her essay. After she read, she then answered questions from audience members about her writings as well as her career. I found the program very interesting and I feel like I really learned about her through her writings.

The writer first talked about the prologue of her book which was about her parents at the ocean in Maine. This part was mainly about her parents’ relationship and how they took annual trip to the ocean here since they were married. Lili Wright also read about a difficult topic and that was her mother’s battle with breast cancer. She then went on to tell the many reasons she did not at first want to have children. I found this to be a very entertaining part. Then she went on to explain that once she married she found herself wanting kids and always wanting what you can’t have she discovered herself to be infertile. She eventually did “accidentally” get pregnant and became obsessed with having more children. Wright continued to go on with a very graphic and detailed account of her and her husband’s struggle to become pregnant again. The details about her miscarriage were a little graphic but to make it a good writing, she had to do it. After that her family went to live in Spain for six months. Stories from this trip were what she finished her overall reading with. I am currently taking a Spanish class and did so in high school so I found her story about her opportunity to learn Spanish humorous and understanding.

I’ll admit that I was a little shocked of how interesting I found this reader to be. Her writing was about her real life and she included so much detail I felt as if I knew her very well afterward. It amazed me that she was able to read such hilarious material and still not show any emotion while doing so. Overall, I found this program to be very entertaining and interesting.