I finished Michael J. Fox’s second book, Always Looking Up, about a week ago. It was another easy read – Michael J. is just talking here… about his life, his work, politics, faith and family. I like him. I think he has a splendid outlook on life – one that it utterly optimistic, especially in the face of his life with Parkinson’s Disease. He is continually thankful for his blessed life, which is a position one should always try to hold, no matter what. Find your joy at all costs.
I took my time reading it, as it was an easy one to put down and start up again, unlike that tormenting Twilight series that sucked me in from the start. I enjoyed his freshman memoir, Lucky Man, and I also recommend this read. It was well written and thought-provoking. I like Michael J. Fox.
I’m now starting Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth, which is, in short, about building a cathedral. Follett has a huge interest in these old buildings, about how they could even be constructed in the first place by men and women during a time before knowledge of mathematical structural engineering, before power tools, and how they could possibly remain standing after all these many centuries, still perfect, and still beautiful. And why were they built in the first place?
After reading the preface, I understand that Follett had a successful career as a thriller writer, but Pillars is a story he wrote an outline for in 1976, and actually finished in 1989. But there’s a great story too. He says, “I would write an adventure story, full of colorful characters who were ambitious, wicked, sexy, heroic, and smart. I wanted ordinary readers to be as enraptured as I was by the romance of the medieval cathedrals.” WooOOoo… sounds meaty and wonderful!
Dirty house be damned! I will spend my afternoon tucking into this new tale.
I’d love to know how anyone else has found this novel…
G.G.
