good book

I recently had to leave the Land family where Leif Enger stopped telling their story in his book Peace Like a River.  And as often happens when I read, I imagine that I, too, have writing skills as genius and entertaining as this author.  Perhaps I am fooling you in this post. I must confess that each of these decent sentences is hard work.  Each one takes intense concentration and a good amount of delete and rewrite before I move on.  For that reason, I stop here.  Seriously though, it's a novel written in beautiful prose that makes you want to live in it - well that is probably the story line, that is so compelling I find myself almost praying for the characters.