The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Monday, March 22, 2010

Bel Canto

"When the lights went off the accompanist kissed her."

That's the first sentence of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto. She's a Ragdale alum. Ms. Hawkins was reading all the first sentences of alumni books and this one's my favorite. So later that summer I went to the bookstore and happened to spot the book right there, and right there I started reading. I don't judge books by its first page, or its first sentence for that matter, but I loved it so much I bought it. And then here is what happened. I kept the book on my shelf, unread, and then one day sent it to Katerina in Maryland. I don't gift books I've not finished reading, but I knew it would be good and I wanted her to read it so much I forwent reading it myself.
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