I just finished reading Isolation, by Travis Thrasher. Whew… what a book! I have been accustomed to reading a few chapters every night before bed for most of my adult life, but I haven’t read a good fiction book for more than a month now. There have just been too many commitments lately. I’ve been skimming the reviews for Travis’s novel, making a mental note to check it out from the library one of these days, and I finally decided I just couldn’t stand waiting anymore. If we had to go with dirty underwear for a few days, then so be it, but I was going to read a book!

I read it much the same way I read all books – by dark of night, using a purse-sized flashlight so as not to wake my sleeping husband. He has to get up very early for work, you know?

Even though I have to be up at 6:30 a.m. to start my day, I could not put the book down the other night. I kept playing the “just one more chapter” game until 1:30. Every once in a while a good scare can’t be beat. And I must give Travis a hand. At one point in the middle of the night, and at a particularly spooky part in the book, the open window apparently caused our bedroom door to come flying open. I actually squealed just a little and found myself carefully searching around the room. For what, I don’t know… something dark and sinister lurking behind the clothes hamper? Thankfully my husband is a sound sleeper.

The only other book that has caused me to peer cautiously at the open bedroom windows in the middle of the night was Frank Peretti’s novel, This Present Darkness. Maybe I should quit reading spooky novels in the middle of the night. Whatever. Now I just can’t wait to get my hands on Travis’s new novel, Ghostwriter.

Here’s a link to Travis’s website:   http://www.travishthrasher.com/