While I’m reading, a sentence will grab me and force me to stop. I pay tribute to other authors by sharing their Damn Fine Sentences with you. Then I recount a memory the words bring up for me. It’s about how books connect with your life.
*****
“There was a full moon outside my window, icy white in a blue sky, and the Cubs were playing Cincinnati.”
———Marilynn Robinson
——--Gilead
I’m ten years old, lying in the bow of Dad’s yellow cabin cruiser. We’ve been fishing, just the two of us. He sits on the deck smoking his pipe. Vin Scully is calling a Dodgers game on the radio. Mosquitoes buzz. Lightning bugs flicker. The river rocks me to sleep.
*****
“There was a full moon outside my window, icy white in a blue sky, and the Cubs were playing Cincinnati.”
———Marilynn Robinson
——--Gilead
I’m ten years old, lying in the bow of Dad’s yellow cabin cruiser. We’ve been fishing, just the two of us. He sits on the deck smoking his pipe. Vin Scully is calling a Dodgers game on the radio. Mosquitoes buzz. Lightning bugs flicker. The river rocks me to sleep.
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