Bookworm

I can't stand to not have a good book within reach these days. I feel a little like I am floundering without one ... even if it sits on the table for a week untouched. A good book has become something of a security blanket to me. I am quite the addict.

And today I finished a fantastic read, another novel of the historical fiction sort. Another by Philippa Gregory, who after this read, is my new favorite author. I read a number of her books last year from the Tudor time frame. The book I finished today was called The White Queen and is the first in a series from the Plantagenet time frame. While I have appreciated her stories and her storytelling, this time around I was also impressed with her expression. I didn't realize until half way into the book that I should have been marking up the fantastic writing that caught my fancy along the way. And by the middle of the book it was too late for me to start, if you think the way I do; my brain would just explode if I started documenting in the middle, missing the first part. Now all that's left to do is go back and read it again (after I loan it to my sister, of course), for the sole purpose of underlining my favorite lines and phrases. There were that many. I so relish good writing in this way. And while I did not mark and save my favorite lines as I should have, I did at least jot down some really good words she used. I added the following to my word-junkie collection: anchorite, inimitable, denigrate, beguilingly, troubadour, cuckold, doff, simper, dearth, hotly, unrest, watch care, pretenders, errant, and hagridden.

Upon finishing the book this morning, like Tarzan dangling at the end of a vine, I needed to find my next lifeline. So I picked up a book I got in the mail this week, and after reading the summary and preface, I am chomping at the bit (pen in hand from the get go, this time) to get started. The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. I kid you not, just the page and a half preface had me moved to tears, rereading passages that were beautiful and inspiring and gripping all at the same time.

And that's all I've got for this post.
Just finished a great book -
Diving into a new one -
And for those reasons, I am feeling pumped.