“We’re all just in the muck trying to believe we’re capable
of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit.” Truth
“The story you walk in to, he has learned, is always more
complex than it first appears.” Truth
23.14 S
I loved this book:
This is a book lover’s dream – an old library book whose
author is being researched by two students who write all of their notes in the
margins as they go. I have always
dreamed of finding a mystery in a book, keeping notes. It is an amazing piece of work, and
quite honestly baffling to think of the process it took to put it all together.
I truly loved every page.
I didn’t like the story:
Maybe I read it wrong.
Maybe I should have read the original “book” and then gone back to the
marginalia. Maybe the other way
around. But I know for sure that I
generally read as a way to escape the feeling that everything I am doing in
life is wrong, so to read a book and feel that way was just no fun. I truly
hated very page.
So, what to say?
It’s beautiful, and adventurous, and tedious and frustrating. In the end it will sit on my shelf to
be looked at and never read again.
I will tell friends I loved it but not to read it. So what’s the point? Not real sure
myself. But it kind of sums up
2013 for me – some huge changes for me and mine coupled with a very strong
feeling of what the hell am I doing.
Things looking good on the outside but kind of all over the place on the
inside. So, how about in 2014 we
just keep it simple and get back to basics. I think I’ll start with Longbourne, because if the Bennets
can’t get me back on track no one can.
