Tuesday 29 September 2009

The Perfect Cure

Outside my window the sun shines brightly with a degree of warmth just perfect to brighten my soul. I've just finished reading 'A Slow Burn' by Mary E DeMuth...I'll not divulge further until Rel posts my review. Suffice it to say that a phone call inviting us to spend a few hours with a couple of friends is just what I needed to cure the grey that settled over my soul this morning, as I finished this book. While not an easy read, 'A Slow Burn' is an entirely worthwhile one that will stay with me....but a sunshiney afternoon of friendship is the perfect way to retrieve what I vested into the story!

4 comments:

Left-Handed Housewife said...

I love when books really stay with you ... even if the feelings they leave you with aren't always the most cheerful. Glad the call from friends came just in the nick of time, nonetheless!

frances

Tracy said...

Oh yes, I love it too. My friend, predictably, said "don't give that book to me" when I told her a little of the plot.

Left-Handed Housewife said...

I have to add that I just finished a book that made me so upset in such a bad way--it was a book that makes you realize just how much soul sickness there is in our culture, and how much of it is accepted as the way things are and sometimes even as "art"--I really wish I hadn't read it in the first place. That doesn't happen too often, but it definitely happened with this book.

frances

Tracy said...

That's certainly not how I want to feel when I finish a book! I hope you find a way to lift your spirits and cheer you up again.