I am reading "The Afterlife of Stars"
Jul. 16th, 2015 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
riotheclown"The Afterlife of Stars" by Joseph Kerts. It is "unforgettable and deeply moving" -Anne Michaels. Before this I read, "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" by by Richard Flannagan. Both books talk about war, hatred, identity, destiny, recovery. (Both I picked at random, go figure, off the shelf. I get most of the books I read by just running my finger along the spines, and unless they look TOTALLY RIDICULOUS, I get a bunch and then try to read them cover to cover.)
I found reading "The Narrow Road..." sort of like pulling myself off a bed of nails. It coincided with a huge shift in my perception, the reasons for this were personal and not really the point of this entry, but it was a cruel endeavour without any sort of comfort at all except the fact that even pain, eventually lets loose to a transcendence. I sort of hated it the way I hated chemo therapy. I read it. I cried a lot.
The Afterlife of Stars is in some ways like it's title. It is distant, perhaps cold even but that is not what is experienced. There is a lot of humour. I had a few tears. The older brother Attila reminded me a bit of F H, enough that I called him out of the blue and now I am going to the Maker Festival with him and Lovely Rachel.
I found reading "The Narrow Road..." sort of like pulling myself off a bed of nails. It coincided with a huge shift in my perception, the reasons for this were personal and not really the point of this entry, but it was a cruel endeavour without any sort of comfort at all except the fact that even pain, eventually lets loose to a transcendence. I sort of hated it the way I hated chemo therapy. I read it. I cried a lot.
The Afterlife of Stars is in some ways like it's title. It is distant, perhaps cold even but that is not what is experienced. There is a lot of humour. I had a few tears. The older brother Attila reminded me a bit of F H, enough that I called him out of the blue and now I am going to the Maker Festival with him and Lovely Rachel.
