Livin' that blurry life
May. 4th, 2018 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nightdog_barksAnnual eye exam was this morning, so everything has been slightly out of focus and a little TOO bright the rest of the day. I really like this ophthalmologist, but I'm always glad when it's over. My eyes are fine (no diabetic damage, yay!), although now I have a teeny tiny cataract in my right eye to keep the teeny tiny one in my left eye company. So eventually I will have to have those removed. But for now everything is good, and I got a new lens prescription for my glasses. :D
Last night I finished reading Dara Horn's Eternal Life, which is about a woman who makes a bargain with God two thousand years ago (to save the life of her sick child) and then finds she cannot die. So she ... lives, for two thousand years. Periodically, she "regenerates," which allows her to start her life over somewhere else, with people who don't know her. It's an interesting idea, and I thought the author did a good job with the idea, but ... maybe not so much with the characters? I mean, there's some very good writing here, and Horn asks some big questions about faith and love and the meaning of organized religion in a secular world, but when I put the book down for the last time I thought, "That's IT?" IDK, I was just left vaguely unsatisfied. And yet, I am recommending this book. For me there was enough good writing to make up for its faults, but ... it was a close call.
Now reading Ian McEwan's The Child in Time.
Last night I finished reading Dara Horn's Eternal Life, which is about a woman who makes a bargain with God two thousand years ago (to save the life of her sick child) and then finds she cannot die. So she ... lives, for two thousand years. Periodically, she "regenerates," which allows her to start her life over somewhere else, with people who don't know her. It's an interesting idea, and I thought the author did a good job with the idea, but ... maybe not so much with the characters? I mean, there's some very good writing here, and Horn asks some big questions about faith and love and the meaning of organized religion in a secular world, but when I put the book down for the last time I thought, "That's IT?" IDK, I was just left vaguely unsatisfied. And yet, I am recommending this book. For me there was enough good writing to make up for its faults, but ... it was a close call.
Now reading Ian McEwan's The Child in Time.