Thursday, June 9, 2016

Love That Cow

Okay....could I love that cow any more?
I don't think so.
Do I adore the work of Sharon Creech?
Um, heck, YEAH!

I love this book so dang much.






"...the smells and the heat and the noise were pouring in the windows and squeezing us from all sides."

*Sigh*

"It seemed they didn't want to waste friend effort on someone who was leaving town."

*Sigh again*

"The voice full of honey but the words...not."

*Big heaving sigh*

This book VIBRATES with action and sounds.....the WORDS:

Lurched
Ambled
Lumbered
Skittered
Lunged
Careened

Clambering
Zooming
Ogling
Screaming
Vibrating
Wailing
Bellowing

And then there is this:

"Sometimes an hour is a blink
A flash
A wink, a flicker
A dashing gallop
And sometimes
An hour stretches
Thuddingly
Second by second
An endless
Eternity
of drips"

THUDDINGLY?

Who even thinks up that word?

I really, really, really loved this book.

And so will you. 

But, um, sorry.

Pub date 8/30

Patience