![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaktwosWhen you reach the end of a good book, there's a period of mourning that occurs. And so, I am left to deal with the joy of a good book with the quiet disappointment that it is over.
However, there are more books to read.Wicked was like a fine meal. His command of the language was delightful.
Some brief thoughts/favorite quotes:
-I wish I could have gone away to college in a town called "Shiz". How much fun to say is that? I'll tell you. A Hill of Shizzy fun. As a friend once mentioned exclaiming "Scott Bakula!" is a good surrogate for certain cuss words. I contend that uttering "Shiz" under your breath is highly satisfying and likely chock full of anti-oxidants. I would be so proud to exclaim that I attained matriculation to the University of Shiz.
-Gregory Maguire is not big on dramatic death scenes, though the Witch had a fine one. Everyone else got virtually a one liner. I didn't mind that at all. I was struck by how matter of factly these deaths occurred.
-Quote:Journalists, armed with the thesauras and apocalypic scriptures fumbled and were deafened by it. "A gulfy deliquescence of deranged and harnessed air." "A volcano of the invisible, darkly construed...".
-Quote: Poets are just as responsible for empire building as any other professional hacks.
However, there are more books to read.Wicked was like a fine meal. His command of the language was delightful.
Some brief thoughts/favorite quotes:
-I wish I could have gone away to college in a town called "Shiz". How much fun to say is that? I'll tell you. A Hill of Shizzy fun. As a friend once mentioned exclaiming "Scott Bakula!" is a good surrogate for certain cuss words. I contend that uttering "Shiz" under your breath is highly satisfying and likely chock full of anti-oxidants. I would be so proud to exclaim that I attained matriculation to the University of Shiz.
-Gregory Maguire is not big on dramatic death scenes, though the Witch had a fine one. Everyone else got virtually a one liner. I didn't mind that at all. I was struck by how matter of factly these deaths occurred.
-Quote:Journalists, armed with the thesauras and apocalypic scriptures fumbled and were deafened by it. "A gulfy deliquescence of deranged and harnessed air." "A volcano of the invisible, darkly construed...".
-Quote: Poets are just as responsible for empire building as any other professional hacks.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-02-20 07:35 am (UTC)Wicked has been on my list of books to read--maybe it will be next.
no subject
Date: 2006-02-20 08:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-20 04:57 pm (UTC)The book was called "The Cloister Walk" by Kathleen Norris. It's non-fiction and very well written. Somewhere within she writes about some of the saints, not unlike your little forays.
I've actually only finished two books so far this year--that one, and another called "Peace Like a River", by Leif Enger. That was another one that absolutely astounded me.
If I only read 12 books this year, and each of them are like the first two, I'll be happy.