Bit's and Pieces of a book......

" I think she's frustrated with me because I could have gone to university" " When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in my cab. It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again." " The flyscreen door is torn at the edges." " Her fingertips are made of love, When she speaks, her voice is made of love." " It feels like the mornings clap their hands. To make me wake." " I don't care that I'm a messenger anymore. The guilt of it handles me. I shrug it off, but it always climbs back on." " I'm treading water in my thoughts." " My words land on my feet and slip off to the grass." "The sky is nervous. Black and Blue." " I stand in long grass and hear the river now for the first time. It sounds like it's drinking. When I look toward it, I see the stars in it. They look like they're painted to the surface of the water." " Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are." " I didn't know words could be so heavy." These are excerpts from the last book I read. It's called I AM THE MESSENGER. It's by an Australian author named Markus Zusak. I've never read a book such as this. He's very descriptive of places and feelings. I actually hi-lighted several things while I was reading because ...because I've never read anything so descriptive before. Here's a synopsis. Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first ace arrives in the mail. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting ( when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission? Sisterlittle is in the process of getting her Masters and had to read this book. I'm glad she bought me a copy. Maybe you would like it too. :)