I check my email this evening and find out that the next Oprah Book Club book is The Pillars of the Earth
You see I was tricked into meeting the man who is now my husband. Some acquaintances of ours wanted us to meet. Since I knew her taste in men I wanted no part of this whatsoever. I like my men handsome, intelligent, employed and have a vehicle that they own amongst other things like honesty, integrity and so on. So…I end up on this date with a guy I didn’t want to meet so I’m acting like a ditz because I want to make sure he’s not interested in me. Plus, I was in a car accident earlier in the week and was on some pretty good pain medication. I’m at this place having to listen to the three talk about computers (blah, blah, blah…have I mentioned I didn’t care about computers and didn’t like people who obsessed about them?) I’m bored out of my mind but like looking at the cute guy I’m being set up with (at least I have some eye candy if I have to listen to their boring talk). At some point in their conversation my ears perked up when I heard the word ‘book’. (I have a radar for books since they are my passion.)
I don’t really recall how he and I started talking about books because I was doped up at the time (and I’m doped up on cold medicine now so this will be interesting). Anyway, I find out he reads like actual books. Real books with words on the pages and not pictures. I mention how I just finished reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett and he tells me how he’s also read it. I was hooked. I didn’t care that he was a computer geek. He’s cute, he reads and he’s read a book that I’ve read and liked it. There you go. I couldn’t let this guy get away and eight months later we were married. All because he had read The Pillars of the Earth.
When my grandmother passed away I was allowed to go through her books and take what I wanted. I found Pillars and took it because of the memories behind it. This was the book that made me fall in love with my husband. Whenever I looked at that book I thought of my grandma and my husband.
Jump to eight years later…I find out my husband has never read Pillars of the Earth and has no idea what book he was thinking about. Imagine that. Oh well…it makes me want to tell him that the only reason I even read Pillars is because an ex-boyfriend loaned it to me because I was bored and didn’t have anything to read. But then again, he can read it on my blog. (I love you hubby!)
It’s still a good book and I will be reading it again just so I can relive the memories of falling in love with my husband and because I enjoyed reading it the first time.
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