Just when you least expect it...
So, I went into work for 4 hours today on my day
off to sort down some books, and as I left, used my
employee credit to purchase Tad WIlliams' War of
the Flowers. It was a nice day today, so I did what
I haven't done for some time and stopped at a McDonalds,
bought some food, rolled down the windows of the car and
sat there and read for an hour.
It's a good book so far, but what really threw me for a loop
was the section detailing the hero's mother dying with cancer.
The description of the char's reactions and emotional state
was so dead on, it was like reading about Ma's last months.
I finished the chapter and then just sat there thinking before I
closed the book and drove home.