Review: Sometimes, life bites
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 28, 2013
Alice's passion is reading.  Reading transports her to elegant locales and privileged surroundings where she is pampered like a delicate and beautiful Queen.  She is a sun goddess of the desert, and  revels in  its warmth.  Alice's real life is anything but exotic.  Forced to forsake her job as a travel agent to be caregiver to her aging mother, life is a daily drudge of unpleasant smells, sponge baths, serving meals and dispensing pills.  She dreads taking her wheelchair-bound mother to doctor's visits, where she perceives the behavior of its medical personnel as saccharine and phony.  Every good result and positive outlook for her mother's survival is met by increasing despair from Alice.So, she turns to her beloved travel books as a form of survival.  In the escapism the books provide, she flourishes and thrives.  Indeed, they feed her, body and soul..literally.Author Nancy Christie chose a theme that many people can relate to as caregivers, and melded it with an unexpected twist.  Well done for this short with just the right amount of bite.