a fresh-washed feel to the air, bright blues, whiter-than-white whites and still plenty of green enhanced by the late-ish afternoon light.....
And if anyone wants a good book just now try Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
which is a long, intense, brilliantly written family saga which ranges across continents, involves incest, hermaphroditism, emigration, immigration.....you name it really. It`s clever, funny, poignant and this is the opening sentence:
‘I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974.’
Thought provoking and highly recommended but you have to be in for the long haul.
Meanwhile I`m halfway through Katherine Rundell`s latest book The Wolf Wilder which is absolutely up to the standard of her previous two which I`ve mentioned before (Rooftoppers and Savage Girl) and has already given me my quote of the year:
"pointing a gun is a failure of imagination"
Indeed and absolutely. :)
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