Image via WikipediaEarlier today I reviewed Stone Kissed by Keri Stevens. I really liked the book. In my review I talk about the lovers having baggage, and in this I don't mean a suitcase.
We all have a bunch of things we hang on to through life. I don't know if the answer to having a successful relationship is losing your luggage, learning to carry it with grace or as the song in the musical Rent goes: I need somebody whose baggage goes with mine.
Regardless, of the options I don''t know if we can, or even should, lose the luggage. Afterall, we are a product of our life experience. The best we can hope for are the latter two solutions.
And baggage doesn't only apply in relationships; baggage has the ability to pop up in all aspects of life, work, school, our eating behaviors, etc. And, it is not just our parents who give us the baggage, lovers, teachers, other relatives, coaches, etc. all pitch in.
So, in Stone Kissed, Delia and Grant are both carrying some heavy suit cases. He carries his with a bit more grace. In Shiver and Linger both romantic main characters carry a ton of luggage leading her, mostly her, to make decisions that probably weren't to brilliant. Her baggage is largely from fairly neglectful parents, and his from parents that try to kill him (mostly).
in Halfway to the Grave Cat is WAY over the luggage limit. Date Rape, a mother who resents her existence, being strange, all make her a pretty wary and dangerous person.
In the TV Program, Sanctuary, the Psychiatric Profiler, Dr. Will Zimmerman, has baggage from seeing his mother attacked, and either she was an abnormal or she was killed by one. He also has baggage deriving from loss of credibility in his field.
In your reading experience, what characters stand out as having baggage that you notice and recall? What is its source? What do you think about carry versus a total jettison of luggage?
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I like my baggage these days. Plenty of fodder for the old keyboard.
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