Words'nTone

Among all the books I read for work and study, I find time to read a few novels throughout the year as well. One of my favorite authors, William Martin, has just released City of Dreams, a great Summer time read. The three quotes below were worth posting, if for no other reason that Mr Martin almost word-for-word put in his story line things that my daughter, Amanda, has told me this year. She wants to be a historian and a history teacher. When I read Mr Martin’s words, I heard my daughter. She like, Martin’s main character, Peter Falon, wants to help others see “the shadows of the past as of it were still unfolding.” Enjoy the quotes and get City of Dreams for yourself—you will enjoy it.

“Sometimes she thought Peter had a pair of extra lenses in his sunglasses and whenever he wanted, he could flip them down like polarizing filters to remove the modern world, so that he could see the shadows of the past as if it were still unfolding” (p 108).

“He preferred books. Whenever he open some fancy Web site, he felt like the defender of a dying faith, a Roman pagan before the glowing presence of Christianity. If the march toward the electronization of everything from novels to newspapers continued, he’d have to start calling himself an antique dealer instead of a rare-book dealer, because the book would finally go the way of the buggy whip” (p 112).

“Just one of those tiny grains of sand in the great machinery of history” (p 117).