Sunday, November 15, 2009

Nov 15th, 2009

Boy, this is a big book! I am on 463 and am only half way thru. Gosh, when did I start this book? I just looked back, because I posted the date I started on Facebook. Nov 4th. Wow, it has taken me 11 days to get to page 463. It is a slower read for me. But fascinating.....I love the way she goes back and forth, from past to present time. How the stories converge and LOTS of things happen to the characters.

I don't normally do this, but I find myself wanting to get ahead in the story to find out what happens. But I keep at it because I am told that soon the story will pull me in even more and be more exciting where I won't want to put the book down. That is what I am waiting for. I love it when a book has it's hook in me like that. Where it is so gripping that I keep reading even when my eyes protest and I stay up far later than I should.

It is a really good book, but I have not gotten that intense with it yet. There is so much to digest and detail and really so many characters to follow. This is what I find interesting though. Did the writer write each story separately and then intertwine them or did she write, then find it was time to write about another person at a certain point and so then she veered onto that character for a while?

I don't know and don't know if that question will ever get answered for me.

It is a pleasure of accomplishment that I have felt before, reading a book that is so many pages and much more of substance than some of the fluff that I also enjoy reading. I am also looking forward to finishing the book for that reason too. For reading has been such a difficulty for so many years that this new world of books opening up to me is really still a very new thing for me.

I am almost too tired to think anymore and so I will sign off now....feeling good just because I got a few words down to note my progress in my book.


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