I'm reading a really good book right now that I'm excited about! It's called Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. I feel as though Philip's friend, Mike, told me about it a few years ago. I've had it on my shelf since then and decided to pick it up a few days ago.
I really had no clue what it was about before I started reading it. I liked the title and the cover art because it sounded and looked kind of creepy and I like things that are kind of creepy. I've been hooked since about page 3. It's about Savannah, Georgia and, from what I can tell, is also about a murder that occurred there. I like it a lot because the author is good at painting pictures of what the town is like. (He described Savannah in exactly the way I would picture it to be--quaint, green, garden-y, old, historical, willow tree-y, southern-hospitality-y, and almost England-y.) The characters are also very vivid to me. The story just flows and, overall, I'm really liking it! Y'all should pick it up.
In seemingly unrelated, but actually truly related, news: I love my brother. For all the trouble he's in and the trouble he is, I love him. We're closer than most brothers and sisters probably are. Sometimes I feel like the older sibling even though I am the younger one, but he'll always be my big bro.
Crazy sibling moment tonight on the phone shall be revealed after a little back story--a few weeks ago Ryan (my brother) and I were talking about how he and Chandra (his girlfriend) were thinking about driving down to Savannah because they had heard it was a really nice and pretty town and is only 4 hours from Marietta, where they live. Tonight before we got off the phone I wanted to tell him about the book I'm reading since it's about Savannah and I thought he might enjoy it. I said, "Hey--I'm reading this book that you might like since it's about Georgia and Savannah. It's called Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." And Ryan said, "You're shitting me! I'm reading that right now! I'm almost done with it; I'm on page 300!" It was a brother/sister-connectedness moment.
We got to talking about how much we loved the book and it turned into a conversation about me going down to Atlanta and us driving to Savannah around my brother's 30th birthday (November 6). I've been wanting to go down to visit him for awhile and it would be such a fun trip--seeing where he lives outside of Atlanta, being there to celebrate his birthday, driving through Georgia, being on the coast a little bit, visiting Savannah and seeing where this book takes place, and going on a ghost tour (Savannah is supposedly very haunted and my brother and I have always been interested in ghosts, even though we're both very skeptical). Plane tickets from Bloomington to Atlanta are only $210 nonstop round-trip right now, so it probably would be a fairly inexpensive trip. I think once things cool down a bit at work that I'll talk to Cecilia about it and see if it's possible. I have vacation time now, so that's exciting! I'd be so happy if this works out. I feel like my brother doesn't have much to look forward to, so it would be a lot of fun to actually do this!
I really had no clue what it was about before I started reading it. I liked the title and the cover art because it sounded and looked kind of creepy and I like things that are kind of creepy. I've been hooked since about page 3. It's about Savannah, Georgia and, from what I can tell, is also about a murder that occurred there. I like it a lot because the author is good at painting pictures of what the town is like. (He described Savannah in exactly the way I would picture it to be--quaint, green, garden-y, old, historical, willow tree-y, southern-hospitality-y, and almost England-y.) The characters are also very vivid to me. The story just flows and, overall, I'm really liking it! Y'all should pick it up.
In seemingly unrelated, but actually truly related, news: I love my brother. For all the trouble he's in and the trouble he is, I love him. We're closer than most brothers and sisters probably are. Sometimes I feel like the older sibling even though I am the younger one, but he'll always be my big bro.
Crazy sibling moment tonight on the phone shall be revealed after a little back story--a few weeks ago Ryan (my brother) and I were talking about how he and Chandra (his girlfriend) were thinking about driving down to Savannah because they had heard it was a really nice and pretty town and is only 4 hours from Marietta, where they live. Tonight before we got off the phone I wanted to tell him about the book I'm reading since it's about Savannah and I thought he might enjoy it. I said, "Hey--I'm reading this book that you might like since it's about Georgia and Savannah. It's called Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." And Ryan said, "You're shitting me! I'm reading that right now! I'm almost done with it; I'm on page 300!" It was a brother/sister-connectedness moment.
We got to talking about how much we loved the book and it turned into a conversation about me going down to Atlanta and us driving to Savannah around my brother's 30th birthday (November 6). I've been wanting to go down to visit him for awhile and it would be such a fun trip--seeing where he lives outside of Atlanta, being there to celebrate his birthday, driving through Georgia, being on the coast a little bit, visiting Savannah and seeing where this book takes place, and going on a ghost tour (Savannah is supposedly very haunted and my brother and I have always been interested in ghosts, even though we're both very skeptical). Plane tickets from Bloomington to Atlanta are only $210 nonstop round-trip right now, so it probably would be a fairly inexpensive trip. I think once things cool down a bit at work that I'll talk to Cecilia about it and see if it's possible. I have vacation time now, so that's exciting! I'd be so happy if this works out. I feel like my brother doesn't have much to look forward to, so it would be a lot of fun to actually do this!
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