Currently up on my reading-group booklist is Gilead, which a rush of people in St. Blogs went through some time back.
The story is so low key and so slow-paced that I am having trouble in my fourth attempt to get through it. Can someone give me some reason (other than obligation to the group) to keep moving through it. I don't sense anything extraordinary here--and I could be wrong about that; however, lacking that sense, I have no real impulse to push through.
So, if you've read it and would be so kind, drop me a note or post a comment that might give me cause to get through it.
I'd much rather be reading the next book up--Cold Heaven by Brian Moore. (See, Black Robe didn't put me off--Brian Moore has some interesting things to say.
