Status Updates From The Snow Leopard

Not the most exhilarating book I’ve ever read but a very interesting read indeed

1.01 - September 28

I nod to Death in passing, aware of the sound of my own feet upon my path. The ancient is lost in a shadow world, and gives no sign. (p. 11)

And more presence of death on this first page, this last one being very distinct, but even before death and decay are all around… mind though, this is all mixed with benign smiles around…

0. Prologue
…a group of shrouded figures passed, bearing a corpse, and the sight arose a dim, restless foreboding.

And after mention of Matthiessen’s wife Deborah dying the year before, that is a far more grim start than expected. But I am immediately involved, even while sync reading with J.A. Baker’s The Peregrine, which has a completely different atmosphere…