I picked The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Here is an overview of the book:
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.
On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him.
And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he'd never uttered: love.
On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists that she knows him – that she has known him, in fact, for seven hundred years. She remembers vividly when they met, in another hospital ward at a convent in medieval Germany, when she was a nun and he was a wounded mercenary left to die. If he has forgotten this, he is not to worry: she will prove it to him.
And so Marianne Engel begins to tell him their story, carving away his disbelief and slowly drawing him into the orbit and power of a word he'd never uttered: love.
This book has always been in the back of my mind. And yes, you will come to find I am a sucker for a good romance. Hopefully this one lives up to all the hype. People have recommended it to me for a while, but I never got around to doing it. No time better then the present right? So come on people - we only have a month to read this bad boy.
Also - lets get to know each other a little better... (yeah, I feel like its the first day of third grade too, but get over it.)
My name is Rachel and I am a force to be wrecken with ... ah ha! I am 21 living in Utah with my amazing dog Reggie. I read a lot, a lot - thus the reason for this club. I'm going to school to be a vet tech one day.
What else is interesting about me? Ah hell, who really cares. Just know I'm awesome.
When you get a chance write a post about yourself on here so we can learn a little about you.
** Make sure to give me your e-mail address associated with your blogger account in a comment, or you can e-mail it to me at vishousrachel@hotmail.com - I want to make sure you're an Author**
Ok... that is all.
4 comments:
Its being shipped! Hooray for book clubs!
This sounds a lot like "The English Patient"---one of my favorite books of all time! Dang it, though, I just started "The Hunger Games"----I will have to read faster....
Now how do we do this? Do different people pick books?
Let me know the rules!
So, I can break them....heh, heh.
let me join! alyssa_guereca@hotmail.com
I really loved this book when I read it. Nice Blog!
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