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So close!!
As hard as this book is for me to stay focused on, it has some pretty imaginative happenings. I'm definitely drawn to the telling of Creation and the author blended so much religion and science it seems like a believable story.

Everytime I try to read, my eyes get heavy and I take a nap. It's a struggle.

Lestat is exasperating! So stubborn and sure of himself even when he isn't. After all this reading, I think Tom Cruise did a very good job portraying him.

It's been a struggle, but I'm so close to the finish. This book has put me into a reading lull. The smallest noise is a distraction and I am having an issue staying on task because my eyelids get heavy while reading. Totally different vibe than the book before.

I'm definitely trying to keep myself in the story. It is not what I expected so far, but hopefully it stops explaining the surroundings and gets to the story line.

"It is interesting to me in these moments that our concept of heaven is one if ecstacy. The joys of heaven. That our concept of hell is pain. The fires of hell. So we don't think it very good not to feel anything, do we?"

" 'I want to know, for example, why beauty exists,' she said, 'why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightening storm with the ground these things inspire in us? If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power?' "

"The air comes out of one body and is breathed into another. The music, does it pass out of one ear and into another, as the old expression goes? We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us."

"A great horde of jangling skeletons snared in flesh and rags, that's what they were, and yet their cottage blazed out of them, they shouted at me in their irrepressible pride."