Greenvoe

Almost finished with George Mackay Brown's Greenvoe and was planning on waiting until the finish before posting my impressions of this book until I read, "She was young in the ruins of her body" and "The sky was a broken net of stars above them."  There are many moments in this book that are striking and which only a poetic sensibility could compose in supporting the thread of the story.  I am not certain Orkney considers itself to be Scottish, but I will add this to my blog and hope that it survives the tsunami of popular culture because this book should be read.