Bought Charles Frazier's (of Cold Mountain fame) new book Thirteen Moons for my father to read during Mom's surgery last week. (Yeah, like that worked! He couldn't read. He couldn't even figure out which way to hold the book.)
Anyway, late at night, after I've had all the fun I can manage for the day, I'm reading it a bit at a time. Last night's installment brought this sentence:
In that new country, it began to be my understanding that getting what you wanted was largely a matter of claiming what you wanted.
In that one, lucious sentence Mr. Frazier captured what all my rambling about Paula failed to really get a hold on yesterday.
If you love the skillful use of lanuage, don't let The Washington Post's review put you off this book. If I could, I'd eat his words with a spoon—a demi-tasse spoon, so they would last longer.
4 comments:
demi tasse spoon, what a lovely compliment that is, makes me want to read the book!
Great review. "In that new country, it began to be my understanding that getting what you wanted was largely a matter of claiming what you wanted."
Seems this could be a mantra for the rest of us.
Words good enough to eat - I know just the kind you mean, and I love to feast on them!
That is one powerful, affirmative sentence. I'm in the process of making and "affirmations collage" to cheer me through NaNoWriMo - I just might add this one in!
Ah, I'm just not sure. I couldn't get through Cold Mountain! I know his writing is so good, but for some reason I just didn't get into it. But I saw him on CBS Sunday Morning last weekend, and it made me think I might pick this up.
:)
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