Winter Sea, Mir's third book.

Moving right along, I now have Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley on my list of things to read. Going to start it today, after I've put up my review for the previous book. Must have breakfast first, though, feed the rats... do all number of things.

I have to say, as a quick aside, Phong speaks Doric rather well, for being an american made contraption. ;)

I hope you enjoy it. Ms Kearsley doesn't, at first glance, seem like my kind of writer at all but I picked up her Shadowy Horses a year or so ago and found myself enjoying it far more than I would have expected. I'm not familiar with any of her other books yet but I do have Mariana sitting on Mount TBR for when the mood grabs me again.

Thing is, I've forgotten how I even got this book. I think it was a kindle sale book that I snatched up a while ago. At least that's what I remember. And I am enjoying it. The divide between writing and living, as someone who writes much the same way as is depicted in the book, has been a great thing to get into.

Some of the highlights from the book for as far as I've gotten...

'Men who watch, and say but little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.'

'A man, when he has fallen on hard times, should seek his friends,' he said. 'Not sell them to his enemies.'

'Hope,' he told her.'rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world. If ye mind noting else I've taught ye of the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if he does mean to cross it.'

About to finish this one... I have to say, it's been an emotional ride. Joys and sadness. I'm not one to cry at stuff like this, so it wasn't that kind of emotional, but it sure pulled at my heart. Am curious to see how it's going to end.

Finished this one and on to the next. It was a very touching book. I'm sorry Eirian's been stuck without internet to share it with me.

Review:
http://www.librarything.com/review/79785970

I'm very happy that at least for today and right now, the internet seems to be working okay and I have access to actual websites. Of course getting the web pages translated from Arabic helped.

I wish I could have shared this with you as you went along. Sounds like it was a good one for quotes and things. Perhaps one I can read when I've worked my way through the twenty or so books that I have.... starting with the Destiny things and the other book that you loaned to me :)