This is mighty. Compelling writing about a compelling book. This is the 'Rob Macfarlane introduction to 'The Living Mountain' by Nan Shepherd' but for 'The Cure for Sleep'. Your review - but it is so much more than that - is an explanation of why this book is a particular favourite of ours. Your words and phrases are enviable, an encouragement to this aspirant writer to sharpen up. I want to read your memoir ... 'A Life in Books', or somesuch ... your story set amidst the reviews you orchestrate. Your writing deserves to inspire in the way Tanya's does. A review I'll be rereading and learning from often, I suspect. Beautiful. Thank you. Barrie
“Perhaps books choose their entrances into our lives. Perhaps some unconscious instinct holds the right book in abeyance until just the right moment, the moment of greatest need. (As I survey my overflowing shelves, I hope so.)”
Much of what you wrote spoke to me; this is believe whole-heartedly.
I had never thought of it being three separate lives before; that clicks in for me like the perfect final block in a Lego castle. I am living a third life within one vessel. This one is calm, balanced, and open-hearted in a way the serves without servitude.
I love the review. It encourages me to write more, share more, and relieves me from the burden of unread books; knowing now they are patiently awaiting their perfect time to open their wisdom, when my heart is ready to receive the lessons within
I hadn’t come across the book The Cure for Sleep, until I read your compelling review. I do believe this book has appeared at just the right moment. I will have to read it! Thank you for providing a pathway to it’s discovery.
This is mighty. Compelling writing about a compelling book. This is the 'Rob Macfarlane introduction to 'The Living Mountain' by Nan Shepherd' but for 'The Cure for Sleep'. Your review - but it is so much more than that - is an explanation of why this book is a particular favourite of ours. Your words and phrases are enviable, an encouragement to this aspirant writer to sharpen up. I want to read your memoir ... 'A Life in Books', or somesuch ... your story set amidst the reviews you orchestrate. Your writing deserves to inspire in the way Tanya's does. A review I'll be rereading and learning from often, I suspect. Beautiful. Thank you. Barrie
“Perhaps books choose their entrances into our lives. Perhaps some unconscious instinct holds the right book in abeyance until just the right moment, the moment of greatest need. (As I survey my overflowing shelves, I hope so.)”
Much of what you wrote spoke to me; this is believe whole-heartedly.
I had never thought of it being three separate lives before; that clicks in for me like the perfect final block in a Lego castle. I am living a third life within one vessel. This one is calm, balanced, and open-hearted in a way the serves without servitude.
I love the review. It encourages me to write more, share more, and relieves me from the burden of unread books; knowing now they are patiently awaiting their perfect time to open their wisdom, when my heart is ready to receive the lessons within
I hadn’t come across the book The Cure for Sleep, until I read your compelling review. I do believe this book has appeared at just the right moment. I will have to read it! Thank you for providing a pathway to it’s discovery.