In the right hand column of my blog, you will see a section entitled "currently reading". I update this as I start each new novel. As you can see, I am curling up with The Colorman by Erika Wood at the moment. This is a review copy that was sent to me by Tantra Press.
I started this yesterday and am hovering at the 54 page mark. The book follows Rain Morton, a young painter, as she trys to make her mark in NYC. Parellel to her, we follow James Morrow, who runs a unique Paint factory. It's assumed that these two storylines will interwine.
Here is a little snippet of something that caught my breath:
"Purple is richness beyond measure, the sensuousness of wine stained lover's lips and the quenching sweetness of grape and berry. Purple is also injury and death: the florid purple of a bruise, the darkening face of a choking vicitim, the opalesence of rotting flesh."
While there are moments of sheer beauty in the Erika's descriptions, overall I am feeling very disconnected from the characters. I struggle to see in my minds eye the things that Erika explains, I haven't been sucked in yet, but I am hopeful. It is still too early to tell.
Post what YOU are reading on your blog, and link me back to it by commenting here.
Has laoreet percipitur ad. Vide interesset in mei, no his legimus verterem. Et nostrum imperdiet appellantur usu, mnesarchum referrentur id vim.
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