Does anybody like to read?

[Marie27]

I can recommend a cool book that I just read called Dear Isabelle by Jessica Swan. It's a thriller set in Seattle.  The plot twists at the end of this book will really surprise you.  Swan is a very intellectual writer and the imagery that she conjures up is very exquisite, but don't take my word for it.  Read this excerpt from her book:

Seattle rain always seems to fall sideways, as if flamboyantly disregarding the rules of physics. Invariably, it was the cross-current of winds that would push up and down simultaneously against the raindrops, until the exiled showers would have nowhere left to run, except ahead.  Only ahead.  But from indoors, the sideways rain is enchanting.  It makes your window look a bit like a mirror that is forever shattering in slow motion. Thousands and thousands of glittering flashes splashing against the glass, each drop trying its best to break through.  And the sound is so mysterious.  Wonderfully mysterious.  Almost like Mother Nature gently pressing her finger up to her lips to whisper a long hush.

[TehBorken]

"Seattle rain always seems to fall sideways, as if flamboyantly disregarding the rules of physics."

Lol, it's true, too. I like the way it sounds hammering against the windows.

Invariably, it was the cross-current of winds that would push up and down simultaneously against the raindrops, until the exiled showers would have nowhere left to run, except ahead.  Only ahead.  But from indoors, the sideways rain is enchanting.  It makes your window look a bit like a mirror that is forever shattering in slow motion. Thousands and thousands of glittering flashes splashing against the glass, each drop trying its best to break through.  And the sound is so mysterious.  Wonderfully mysterious.  Almost like Mother Nature gently pressing her finger up to her lips to whisper a long hush.

Good writing, I like it. It's raining right now like that, actually.


 

[Gopher]

I've always found something special about the rain beating on the windows while I'm lying in bed, it's like listening to some ancient, ancestral song that has never changed throughout the ages.

[P.C.]

That is a good excerpt.

  I also think TB should write a book !!!  Get on it TB.  You don't travel enough to keep me sufficiently supplied with your great stories and humorous writing style.