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Archive for February 8th, 2011

I like a good book. Sometimes I like too many good books. I know I don’t talk about them often enough on this blog but mostly because I’m one of those who will read the cereal box just to read something. I read a lot of different things and they’re not always newsworthy.

But this time I really like what I’m reading so much so that I crawled under the dining table yesterday evening to escape and read some more. My husband and daughter understood. My daughter came over to pet my head.

My soon to graduate and head into the world of college nephew turned me on to the book. It’s actually his copy I’m borrowing so I’m being careful not to eat over it and such as I usually do.

Because the author is a female author and it’s Christian fiction one would think chick-lit but it held appeal for him so there must be more.  And there was. He discovered the book in his English class where they were studying bits of writing and he enjoyed the bit from this book. He wanted to know more so he went and bought a copy.  He thought my mother would enjoy it so he loaned it to her and then she thought I would like it too. I wasn’t sure what to expect when he loaned it to me but I’m impressed and now have ordered the rest of the series because I love to read. But what held the appeal for my nephew? Probably the focus on the teenage boys in the different families. I found them most interesting too.

Oh! What is it?

Title: By the Light of a Thousand Stars (The Derby Series #3)

Author: Jamie Langston, Turner

Synopsis: The book is written in the first person of four female characters, two Christian women and two non-Christian,  who’s lives intertwine and the changes that happen in their lives and their families’ lives over the space of about a year. There is also a poetry club that sort of gives you the hint that there are many more characters perhaps whose lives are delved into in other books. I can’t say right off that I was ready to give this book a try. The opening pages are of a mother who is grieving for her lost child. Having lost a child I was finding myself getting a bit sad reading thoughts that mirrored once mine once were but I pulled through and I’m glad I did.

Geesh I know I’m not giving you much of the book but you can go to Amazon and read the first few pages. I kind of like that you know because you usually know by the end of the first chapter if you want to read on.  I just don’t like to give away the all of a book you know.

The book is highly detailed. Meaning you will know every move of a character, “She went to put on her coat.  Her left arm in the sleeve and then her right. She zipped the jacket closed and then pulled on the hood. Looking down she felt in her pockets for her gloves”.  Okay that is NOT verbatim but some of it is like that and it can seem over the top but that is the beauty of the book. You really get to know the characters and even the family members.

It is the third in a series of 5 so I have a lot to read.

I enjoy it and hey! you might too.