Recent Reads…
Recently I read “The Narrow Road Between Desires“ by Patrick Rothfuss. AND I LOVED IT!
Rothfuss’s first book “The Name of the Wind” Is what got me back into being an avid reader in High School, so he will forever have my thanks for that.
This story is about a faerie. A man named Bast, whom is a faerie pretending to be average man in a little village. It’s such a fun little romp. And the illustrations in this book are to die for. The illustrator, “Nate Taylor” hits it out of the park every time! There is one two page image that wraps around the corners of the pages, putting the text in the middle of the image like a frame . . . and the image is of the strange parts of this room that the characters are exploring. Gosh. So good!
Here are some quotes that I had to write down as I read them, they hit me in the chest in exactly the right way. [SPOILER WARNING]
“So much of this was easy. Hearts were easier to read than books. Glamour wasn’t that much more than making sure folk saw the thing they already had plans to see. And making fools of foolish folk was hardly cunning grammarie.”
P.171
“Bast laughed again. He knew he shouldn’t, but there were times when it was either laugh or break wide open because he was too full. It would have been like holding back a sneeze. Sometimes the world was so perfectly revealed to be a joke, a picture, and a puzzle all at once. Laughter was the true applause you offered to the world for being beautiful.
And if there was some small applause still left for him, then that was only fair. It wasn’t nothing, managing to find your way into alignment with the perfect seam of everything. But if you had the craft to see that’s where you were? Well then you pick. You rip the seam or sew. That’s when you learned the sort of artist that you truly were.”
P.174