Nostalgia

Do you ever genuinely MISS characters from novels?  TV shows?  Movies?

That's where I've found myself this past weekend.  I have found myself desperately missing Tatiana and Alexander...fictional characters in Paullina Simons The Bronze Horseman series (An awesome series based around a couple in Leningrad, Russia during WWII).  The problem?  I do not know if I'm emotionally prepared to read that book again.  No lie, I read the first book in a matter of days...but in those few days I felt as I'd lived a whole life.  Their journey took me through so many emotions.  I just am not quite sure I am prepared to go through all that right now.

But...you know how a song can take you back to a certain time or a certain place in your life?

Reading has always been an escape for me, so sometimes books do that for me.

The year that I read that series...it was the dead of winter...  Which in Florida, translates to "cold and wet."  I remember being all bundled up under blankets, reading late into the night.  During that time, I was also coping with a broken heart, and having just been separated from someone that I cared about very deeply.

While I have been toying with the idea of re-reading that series, particularly the first book, my mind has wandered to that period of time in my life.  While it was a tough time, I wrote some of my very favorite pieces during that time.  So, I thought that I would share some of those with you this week.  I hope you will enjoy.

A quote from The Bronze Horseman.