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| TC is in the sun musing about the chipmunk she sees out the window. Hopefully that is all she does. So far this month she has presented me with two chipmunks - one alive and one dead but both in my bedroom. |
Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week.…Musing Mondays is sponsored by Should Be Reading.
• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to talk.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to talk.
Today I am musing about Soulminder by Timothy Zahn that will
be released tomorrow. I received an ARC for Soulminder from Netgally in return
for a honest review.
I love Science Fiction and Zahn is a well-known SciFi
author. I have not read many of
his books so did not know what to expect from Soulminder. What I got was a book that is
very readable and made for great book club discussions.
Dr Adrian Sommers holds his young son as he dies from
injuries suffered in a car crash.
That set him on a quest. He
wants to capture the soul as it leaves the body and hold it in a trap until the
body can be repaired. Then the
soul is returned and the person is again healthy. The story really begins when he succeeds.
Soulminder has a core group of characters and stories that
involve them over a 20-year period.
Sommers envisioned this as help to the medical profession and to be used
only for those people who would otherwise have no hope of remaining alive.
It is used for that but it is also abused in ways Sommers
never predicted. Sommers is the
only one who can change that.
Soulminder is a very though provoking book. I
have very mixed feeling about trapping a soul and am not sure I every want it
to be a real discovery instead of fiction. However, that is one of the great things about fiction. It lets you explore new things and
think about them in a way you never expect.
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