to the beach!!! must go. One of the things I have done during this pre-winter time of expectancy and delivered goodness and respite and refusal to get up for anything is, read. I have read most of an entire series of mysteries of Louise Penny, set in Quebec. and as I understand it, Quebec is iffily Canadian, and eerily, tenuously connected to earth as a whole- in its beauty, its darkness, its winterly chill. is it so, my canadians?
The series is fantastic, written by a person with skill and an eye for beauty, literature, poetry and the complexity of people. and the endings are not pat, not easy and not formulaic. what connects them is the Inspector, and a continual revisiting of a small town nestled in idealia amongst the regular mayhem of dirty life, a brigadoon of sorts, although it does not do the disappearing act. go look up the series if you don't know it already, the first one is called... Still Life... you should read them in order to get the nibbles on the characters you will want to know, i wish i did... really.... although my rooms are crowded with the people i wish i knew, i wish i could see. . .
so that is where i am at, my mom gave me a copy of the latest and last of the series so far and i am nibbling so as not to have it end... like the last good cookie, dipping into the tea, morsel becoming the biggest word of the day. morsel, please, morsel.
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I've heard of Louise Penny and I've also heard she's wicked good. I need to start nibbling on her and all.
It is so great to have a book to chomp on, especially when you know there are more to come.
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