"Cutting For Stone" By Abraham Verghese

"Cutting For Stone" is a book I have been eagerly waiting to read.  I started to hear about it last year..just mumblings really but I didn't know anything about the story.  In January I ran into a friend and she said, "It's the best book I have ever read!"  Here's the thing with me, if someone says that to me I automatically put it on my list to read even if the subject matter is something that does not interest me,  I have never heard about it or whatever.  To say a book is the "best" is like a moth to the flame for me.  Very basically, "Cutting For Stone" is the story of twin brothers born to a nun at a mission based hospital in Africa around 1940.  The hospital, the people who work and live there, and the country of Africa are all active characters as well.

I started this book about a week ago, before I left for Scottsdale hoping to do some real damage and get through as much of it as I could before I got home.  "Cutting For Stone" happens to be my April book club book so I am on a time crunch with it and it is long, 657 pages.  As of last night I am on page 235.  I will admit to struggling through a majority of the first few chapters hoping to God that one of the story lines takes off.  Well, I am happy to say that indeed..it had taken off.  Phew!   I book marked my first promising sentance on page 9 which reads, "Life too, is like that.  You live it in the forward but understand it backward".  Isn't that the truth!!  And then another that my friend Michele and I said to each other during our visit while I was in Scottsdale, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans."  Amen to that!

I'll keep you posted!