I've actually been a bit distracted by a certain book, Leif Enger's Peace Like a River. It's an amazing, incredible piece of literature (and I'm only 75 pages in!). Here's how good it is: the story itself is pretty depressing (and if you know me at all, you know that I avoid anything dark/scary/depressing like it's the bubonic plague), but the prose is so, so beautiful that it doesn't matter where the story's going. I just don't want it to end. I'm savoring it in small, fifteen-minute reading-bursts. It's really, really that great.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Peace.
I've actually been a bit distracted by a certain book, Leif Enger's Peace Like a River. It's an amazing, incredible piece of literature (and I'm only 75 pages in!). Here's how good it is: the story itself is pretty depressing (and if you know me at all, you know that I avoid anything dark/scary/depressing like it's the bubonic plague), but the prose is so, so beautiful that it doesn't matter where the story's going. I just don't want it to end. I'm savoring it in small, fifteen-minute reading-bursts. It's really, really that great.
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Peace Like a River is the best book I've ever read and I'm not kidding. The story is amazing but the writing is unbelievable. Enjoy every minute of it. I just got So Brave, Young and Handsome, Enger's other novel. I can't wait to read it. I'm joining a blog book club of it.
Ahhh! Makes me so excited to finish it!!!
You're way too sweet :)
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