Lullaby

I first read Lullaby in August of 2005. I know this because for the past 4 years I've had weird obsession with keeping track of all the books I read. This list it becomes like a scrapbook, the good times, the bad times, the okay times and the times I don't have no memory of. The latter is the category this book falls in, and while I didn't fully remember what this book was about I clearly remember what life was like while I was reading Lullaby.

Married one year and an month, we were living in a small one bedroom apartment and I was just a few short weeks away from my first teaching job the didn't have an exploration date, the same I'm at today. We were saving up to buy a house and debating on when to have children.

So less than 4 years ago I'm typing this from our quaint little 3 bedroom home enjoying some peace and quiet after an hour of our 2 year old getting in and out of bed and the 2 week old being fed and rocked to sleep. If it wasn't for all these changes, all this added responsibility I may have remembered what Lullaby was about and realized that just maybe it wasn't the I book I should be reading at this moment in my life, for my nerves sake at least. Because a book about an ancient magical death spell accidentally published in a book of children's lullabies that parents use to rock their children to sleep can be a little unsettling when your basically waiting around for your wife to give you the high sign that it is time to go hospital.

There is a lot more worry in my life than there was 4 years ago. Worry makes me check the locks at least twice at night, makes me check the basement for water after a heavy rain, makes me check my sleeping children to ensure they're still breathing, makes me fear magical poems that kill people. Worrying about things is stressful, and at times it's caused some sleepless nights but I'm thankful to have these things to worry about.

As fas as the book goes my brief description makes it sound much more sci-fi/horror than it really is. It's actually more about relationship and the abuse of power. A story that is very entertaining, where the unique approaches to writing make you forgive the moments you find unsettling, even disturbing.