It's a very quiet book, one feels cloistered reading it. And yet, it is multi-layered, and much bigger of a read than it first appears. I want to read it again, now that I have the actual narrative...I'd like to read it as a writer, read for all the symbolism and references and metaphor and analogy...
If you do read, I'd love to hear your thoughts...
I just ordered it on Amazon, should arrive tomorrow, and I will start reading it this weekend in between the drinking (one of my younger sisters is having a high school grad party) and even more drinking (friends from high school are in town). The quotes that you posted as you read this were intriguing and I found myself thinking about what they meant, the context. I was flooded with all sorts of emotions — both the good kind and the oh-all-those-regrets kind. That sort of reaction doesn’t happen often when I read short bits like that. It could have been that you were posting them in small doses, but often enough to keep my thoughts centered around it.
But yes, I’ll be posting my thoughts on this. If it is half as interesting as I already suspect it is, I would hope that my interest in it is contagious.
