"The current pulled and sucked her away as though she were a gull feather taken up by a wind gust. But before she could....someone gripped her wrist and dragged out of the current and then toward shore."
Romance is my favorite genre, so I'm sure I'd enjoy this book. I like the author's description of being pulled away by the current and I'm wondering who saved her. Here's the link to my Friday post: WHAT MATTERS MOST.
Great descriptions used in the excerpt. I'm with Freda - it has a suicidal feel to it just based off these few lines. I'll have to look for this one. I've heard good things about this author.
"We watched the woman disappear into the bend of the road. It was unsettling. She seemed possessed, driven by some mimetic force. I was afraid that that force was also a part of me. I was also a worshiper, set wandering in an unfamiliar land." It seems this week I have been driven to write about my mother. It has happened more than once. Here she is again. Tapping my shoulder a reminder that she loved blue. There is the one and only photo of her where she wears a dress of blue. The photo was taken years and years ago. In the photo are my two nephews, my mother and myself.. The photo was taken in West Philadelphia. She sewed it. A light blue that now I wish to call "Indigo." I have much to learn about Indigo. It is easy to pick up on the author, Catherine E. Mckinley's, fervent love for the color. One day my son asked me my favorite color. I said, "I don't have one." I don't. Perhaps, I choose colors by mood. Today red and tomorrow green,
http://www.bibliophilebythesea.blogspot.com Closed until June 13 "Michael Hunter stared at the hand-lettered sign on the Gull Motel office, expelled a breath, and raked his fingers through his hair. Not the welcome he'd been expecting after a mind-rumbling thirty-six-hour cross-country drive to the Oregon coast. And where was he supposed to stay for the next three weeks, until the place opened again?"
"The difference between life and death was information:..the greatest danger was not the river, but the desert beyond. There the temperatures were so hellish they melted stones, there was no water, and they could be preyed upon by scorpions, wildcats, and hungry real coyotes...Rattlesnakes, as well as coral, moccasin, and darting indigo snakes, came out to hunt at night, the time when the migrants set off, because the daytime heat was lethal." isabelallende
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Here's the link to my Friday post: WHAT MATTERS MOST.
Happy weekend!
Thanks for sharing. I love the imagery and description in the beginning.
ENJOY, and thanks for stopping by my blog earlier.
Elizabeth
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