Reading Rainbow

I have this overwhelming urge to be on my couch reading a book right now. More specifically, the Eudora Welty short story collection, "A Curtain of Green", that I've been digging for the past couple of weeks. I'd forgotten how much I love Welty's short stories. I remember back in high school I had to read "A Delta Wedding" as a part of my summer reading list in English class. I hated it. Hated. Of course I was a snobby brat of a teenager mostly interested in reading Glamour while spending close to 7 hours a day baking myself in the sun only taking a break at noon for Days of Our Lives*. For the most part, my vivid recollection of the novel was that the wedding sequence only lasted for about a paragraph out of 300 pages or something and the bridesmaids in the wedding wore a rainbow of pastel colored dresses, something which Rebekah L. would copy in her straight-out-of-high-school wedding, the outcome of which ended with the couple living in a trailer in the front yard of the bride's parents home in rural north Louisiana. I've never given Delta Wedding a second chance, but in college I was introduced to Welty again in the form of short story, particularly, "Petrified Man," which I found incredible at the time. I wrote my term paper on that, along with a few selections from Miss Flannery O'Connor and Mr. Faulkner. I reread Petrified Man the other night, and found just as amusing and intriguing as the first time. So far I've only read three other stories in this collection, and I've enjoyed all of them. I can't wait to read more and today would be the perfect day. It's cloudy and rainy outside and I'm a little lethargic from having just polished off a grilled cheese with avocado and tomato. Anyway, maybe after I finish this book I'll consider giving Delta Wedding a second chance, but I don't know, the real life version still haunts me a little.

*Stefano = greatest soap opera villain of all time.