have you read this? a friend loaned it to me years ago and it sat, languishing (love that word) on my bookshelf. every once in a while i would glance through it and decide that i must have left it there for some reason--too boring, too wordy, poorly written. i do have a stack of books like that, started and abandoned and now, languishing (couldn't resist). a week ago, when i started with this chest cold that is SO wont to leave me, i picked this book up out of desperation. i found that it wasn't languishing, it was overlooked. and man, what i was missing! it's everything i love: excellent writing about ordinary things and ordinary people, with a plot that keeps pushing forward in a slow, steady, hypnotic way. with characters you dream about, and awaken sure that they are, indeed, real people in your life. i am halfway through and i don't want it to end. that's a good book.
and i have been trying to drag myself away from gaea's porcelain beads. it's hard, but i was able to finish a couple of hill tribe pieces. i love these beads: the organic feel and the soft sheen. as irresistable as a good book.
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