It’s been awhile since my daughter looked up from her book and said, “Listen to this.” But somehow the book I had put in my son’s Easter basket this year ended up on her TBR pile. As she was reading Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith -while savoring her 15 ingredient salad (another thing I love about her)- she smiled and said those magic words.
It's now making the rounds from my nightstand to my husband's. Fans of Neil Gaiman take note. You won't be disappointed by the premise, humor, or observations about life.
“And so later Hannah was back at the kitchen table in her house. Sitting where she’d sat earlier. Her place. Hannah didn’t know that humankind has a deep-set belief in the idea that we create and maintain reality through ritual, that repeated actions are what keep the spheres in alignment. She also didn’t know that it doesn’t work, and that there are far older, more complex, and much darker designs in motion, ones that override ours as effortlessly as a crack of thunder blotting out birdsong.”
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