Thursday, February 27, 2014

Of Vampires

Aided by the cold temperatures, talk of more snow the beginning of next week, and a day filled with things you don't want to do—but accomplish anyway, I succumbed to sloth.

Instead of reading something worthwhile, a book that would make me think and expand my boundaries, I picked up a supernatural thriller—667 pages of roaring narrative that included classic vampires and a quest to find a specific book. Of course there are those who thwart that quest.

The story wends its way through one complication after another, through miraculous and heroic escapes from legendary demons and some newly created monsters.

This escapade so grabbed my attention that I opened a forty year old wood TV table, spread a napkin over the stained top, placed my plate and a book to raise the level of my book and read and ate.

I left one of the main characters in a tense situation with no way out—at the moment.Now with only 124 pages to go I must get back to the book. The second book in the series is out, but I'll wait until the paperback edition in May. Then I'll put it on my shelf and wait until the third or fourth day of a heat wave and then slip into sloth again.

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