The excessive heat and humidity continues. This is the 5th day of this awful, awful weather and we have one more to go. It really messes with my allergies and my brain is in a fog. There were lots of thunderstorms around us yesterday, but they seemed to be just to the north, so we weren’t impacted. But there are more on the way today, tomorrow, and Monday.
I keep watering and sweating and watering again and sweating. Attractive, right?
I finished Sarah Perry’s newest book – Enlightenment – yesterday, which left me shaken and moved and overwhelmed with emotion. I can’t stop thinking about it and, as usual when this happens, the next book in the queue will suffer by comparison.
I cannot speak highly enough of Perry’s novels. She is an extraordinary writer, simply extraordinary. She bases her stories in Essex (England.) This one is a story of unrequited love, of faith, God, science, astronomy, the heavens, and the plot is so beautifully woven together that it made me weak in the knees. I felt that way about The Essex Serpent (read during lockdown) and, to a slightly lesser degree, Melmoth. Ghosts, mysticism, questions about life and death, the metaphysical, love, the one you cannot help loving, friendship, the bonds between human beings – it’s all there.
Her prose is so rich, so detailed, so lyrical. I got this from our library system, but I feel very strongly that it should be in my home library, so I most likely will buy my own copy at some point.
That’s all I can say today. I finished it yesterday and it’s still with me. The characters live on in my heart.
Stay safe.
Happy Saturday.
