The Dim Sum Diaries: Hmm

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Hmm

Written by Mir :: :: ::

Just belatedly realized that I've had this blog for about three years! Thats a big wow.

So many thoughts running through my head...I shall resolve to write more faithfully...

But for now...I can make this post really really bloggity:

WHAT I'M LISTENING TO:

Kick ass rockingist Canadian Irish music!

WHAT I'M READING:

The Mercy of Thin Air (or will be tomorrow). Based upon a favorite author's recommendation, it sounds pretty intriguing and I'm stealing what she wrote straight from her post cuz I'm a lazy ass:

The basic set-up is this : a beautiful young woman named Raziela, is deeply in love with Andrew in the 1920s, and she dies tragically before they get married. As another character in the book says, the rest of Andrew’s life revolves around the moment he loses Raziela, who drowned in the swimming pool.

For the next seventy years, Raziela exists in the world “between,” gently haunting the friends and loved ones who knew her. She tries to find out what became of Andrew, who seems to have disappeared. At the same time, Raziela meddles to reunite a pair of modern-day lovers, Amy and Scott, who turn out to have a surprising connection to her own past.

It is the relationship between Raziela and Andrew, however, that drives this story like a arrow into your heart. Razi is a strong, independent woman ahead of her time, and Andrew is the only man capable of understanding her. Their moments together are exquisite. And painful, because they capture the exquisite fragility of human life, and the terrible longing we feel for a loved one who is gone forever.

One love scene, in particular, nearly caused me to drop the book. I’ve never read anything like it--and I marveled at the skill and emotional honesty of an author who could elicit such a visceral reaction from me. I thought I had seen it all--but I hadn’t, and I was shocked and moved by Ronlyn Domingue’s vision.

It took four years for Domingue to write “The Mercy Of Thin Air,” and I can see why. It’s a work of art, and more importantly, a work of love.

Hmm

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