Where is Your Bookmark? (02/04/2014)

Winter has arrived!  At least the cold weather.  I left my jacket in the office yesterday evening and regretted it as soon as I stepped outside.  I was already running late to pick up Mouse from daycare and so decided to leave it.  Only to regret it again this morning.  I can see snow on the mountains in the distance, one of my favorite winter sights.  There isn't much, I'm afraid.  I am still waiting for that promised rain.  I even washed my car in hopes that would spur Mother Nature on.

Reading time has been scarce these past couple weeks.  Especially time where I can sit down and read in big gulps, which is how I get the most out of Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin.  I enjoy the book immensely while I am reading it.  Unfortunately, I find myself easily distracted at those times I am debating whether to read or do something else.  In this case, I don't think it is book related, but rather just my state of mind and just how busy I have been, both at work and at home.

I may have to dive into The Husband's Wife by Liane Moriarty before I finish Helprin's novel.  Moriarity's book is next up for discussion in the online reading group I belong to.  I am really excited about reading the book given how much others I know have enjoyed it.  Hopefully my expectations aren't too high.

I am still listening to Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese.  I am on the second part of three at the moment and still enjoying it when I get to listen to it.  I have not been listening on my way to work in the mornings like I should, instead tuning into the news.  Hopefully I will be able to finish it by the end of February.

What are you reading at the moment?  Is it something you would recommend?

Every Tuesday Diane from Bibliophile By the Sea hosts 

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where  

participants share the first paragraph (or a few) of a 

book they are reading or thinking about reading soon.

The book I am currently reading is rich in description and quite an eccentric cast of characters.  It's a fantasy novel, a love story, and an adventure tale rolled into one.  Here is the opening paragraph from  Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale:

A great city is nothing more than a portrait of itself, and yet when all is said and done, its arsenals of scenes and images are part of a deeply moving plan.  As a book in which to read this plan, New York is unsurpassed.  For the whole world has poured its heart into the city by the Palisades, and made it far better than it ever had any right to be.

Hosted by MizB Should Be Reading

And a little teaser from the same book:

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

Would you continue reading?

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