a good reading: A Column of Fire

This book was a gift to me Christmas of 2017. I made time to read it once a week, that's what, at the time, I comfortably could dedicate to reading for leisure. It was hard to commit to reading just one day a week but when I managed to keep that commitment, I found myself reading for easily an hour, I was transported quickly into the story-lines reality.

However it got pushed to the side until Summer of 2018 when I took my first drive out to Unity. This 916-page hardcover book sat on my passenger seat for 3000kms. I was alone and road tripping with no committed destination and so would leisurely stop to walk about and stretch... I'd unpack my folding chair, grab a sweat and my book and just read. After my holiday I was back to busy mode, unable to even look at the book until November this year. I started to read a few pages every night. I'd sleep with the book beside me like a pillow just so I wouldn't forget "oh yeah, I do really want to read that today" -- I'd become connected to the people experiencing the story.. I thought about them at random moments of the day "I wonder what she would have done.."

This past week, February 2019, I have been growing concerned because I was nearing the end. Characters are aging, events are less elaborate and my fingers can't easily flip the pages because there aren't many left... I stopped reading for two days. I truly didn't want the story to finish. This morning however, after a large community supper the evening before, I was inspired to finish things. To let them go and be as they were.

I enjoyed A Column of Fire by Ken Follett. This is the third book in this particular story line. You don't have to read them in order however they tell a grand tale. Stories intertwined with history of what seems like another world, however they are tales of how all our lives have come to be..

What are you reading these days? Do you have a routine of reading, maybe the newspaper even?

Brittaney