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Date Posted: 18:49:32 07/06/09 Mon
Author: Carla
Subject: Since I hit send too early, here are my stand-outs from Chapter 13, which I've had to take inside as there are so many of them! >>>
In reply to: Carla 's message, "Cindy has a way of getting to the heart of the matter, of finding the hidden emotions, motivations and depths in a character and bringing us wise words through them. Some that stand out to me in these two particular chapters include: Clothilde offering Jamie this bit of wisdom: "Bitterness is a very bad thing, James, try never to drink from it's cup for the taste can become appealing in a perverse fashion. Just a few sips are enough to make an addict." pp. 163 - 4; the scene when the nurse tells Jamie wee Stuart is asking his permission to go never fails to break my heart and make me cry, p. 168." on 18:25:35 07/06/09 Mon

I think this paragraph and description struck a cord with me because I come from a landscape very much like that of Connemara, "Living on an island, one learned to deal with it, to understand it well enough that it couldn't take one's life easily, to use it for practical reasons and harbor no great romance whatsoever about it in one's soul." p. 187; Casey to Pamela "Have ye ever considered there aren't answers for everything an' that some things must be taken on faith?" p. 189; it takes a fine hand to write a love scene that isn't trashy nor cloying yet conveys the deep sense of connection both physical and emotional, Cindy has that hand, "'Will you, can you, are you able?' These things said with each thrust, with breath so hard it condensed and gelled and rolled like shattered stone down between their bodies. Over hard, over soft, unstrung and scattered across the ground, nascent and whole with a blue-white light. Fallen from heaven and made of the stuff of stars." p. 193; "Memory is irrevocable as well, we may misplace it, refuse to answer it's summons or just plain lose it but, somewhere, within cell and neural pathways, it abides forever, hidden but alive, existing always in the place in which it was formed. Forever and irrevocable, irrevocably forever." p. 194

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  • I don't cry often when I read, which is funny because a Hallmark card commercial can get me weeping easily (I know I'm a visual learner, etc, but really!) but Cindy's writing has had me sobbing often. I must admit, the emotions run highest where his Lordship is concerned, but you might have guessed that *g*. (NT) -- Denise, 19:13:53 07/06/09 Mon
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