Turn Coat by Jim Butcher

On Tuesday April 7, 2009 the new Jim Butcher book 'Turn Coat' came out. An event that I had been looking forward to for months, but I was also a teeny, tiny bit nervous, could book #11 in the Harry Dresden series possibly be as good as the others?

As luck would have it I had to work Tuesday morning so I asked G. to pick the book up for me and then bring it by so I could see it (obsessed? maybe) which he very kindly did. Nice, pretty, shiny book. 418 pages. So I get home from work and ready to start reading, unfortunately I didn't get to cuz I had to do the mommy thing first. Grrr, the sacrifices I make for my kids. Finally after a few hours I was able to start reading and I gotta say, you know your getting into something good when you find a quote as beautiful as this:

"Clouds of emotion were interspersed with the flickering campfire sparks of ideas. Heavy flowing streams of deep thought rolled slowly beneath blazing, dancing gems of joy. The muck of negative emotions clung to surfaces, staining them darker, while fragile bubbles of dreams floated blissfully toward kaleidoscope stars." pgs. 21-22

From that to:

"Try to imagine the stench of rotten meat. Imagine the languid, arrhythmic pulsing of a corpse filled with maggots. Imagine the scent of stale body odor mixed with mildew, the sound of nails screeching across a chalkboard, the taste of rotten milk, and the flavor of spoiled fruit.
Now imagine that your eyes can experience those things, all at once, in excruciating detail." pg 22

Here's another favorite.

"There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt." pg. 27

Dang, time to get ready for work. I'll have to come back to this later, there are still about 10 quotes I want to get down here.