Imperfectly Perfect – The Slow Regard of Silent Things

The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Imperfectly perfect. It was the right book for me at the right time and it had everything I wanted or needed out of it. Patrick says it's more like a vignette than any proper story. I say, it's a vignette (yes) and also, a poem, a song, a twinkle of a star, a glitter of sun on water, it's a book for artists. It's a book for those who aspire to be artists, it's for artists at heart. It's a book for the lost, the found, the broken, the mildly sprained, the in love, the thoughtful and so much more. It's a book for everyone who appreciates breathing for the sake of taking in air and breathing it out purposefully.

In short, I loved it. I even loved that it involved making soap for 8 pages, because it was thoughtful and purposeful and you understood Auri.

Thank you for this, Patrick Rothfuss. I only hope other authors take notice of this delicately beautiful piece of art you've created and find some way to emulate its magic.

777 Meme response.

Post 7 sentences of your work, start on page 7, count 7 lines down.

I have something I've been toying with for awhile hopefully it ends up being something eventually. This portion is about Clef – a deaf bard with a peculiar gift. This then is from page seven, seven lines in.

How did he always get in these messes? His father had been more than disappointed to have a son who couldn’t hear. Then for him to find this – gift – too? Clef flinched inwardly at the memory of his father and mother arguing. She had been so small, frail, and sick at the time, and his father so tall and powerful. Clef had watched her heart breaking in front of him as his own father cast him out of the house after a rather unfortunate occurrence. Clef had shown a vision of the magistrate cheating on his wife with the miller – during his only daughter’s wedding.