Carissa Rogers's Reviews > Fall on Your Knees

I was in a super geeky frame of mind when I read this book in early spring of 2012. I had been reading books about metaphors (see I told you... geeky). And as fate would have it I picked up this book suggested probably via the stream of books suggested on Amazon after you look at a book title there—right after my nerdy metaphor phase.

I literally started writing down metaphors I came across in the prose of this book... AMAZING. Beautiful. I'm not talking about similes or simple comparisons people. I'm talking about brilliant metaphors,that blow my mind!!

"... the glass panes gloated..."
"... the silvery sea flatters the moon."
"...cleanliness of steel born of soot."
"Shivering slightly at the unaccustomed breeze passing through the new spaces in her spine."
"She fell through a crack in time without spilling a drop. When she returned the tea was still piping hot."
"Teresa smiles at her. Frances collects the moment and puts in in a safe place, with 2 or 3 others." (other moments isn't that brilliant!?)
"The air (New York) is what the Gods live on."
"Sits down (in train station) serenaded by the (noisy) crowd."
(Scared) "It's autumn in her mouth and all her tongue can do is rustle."
(Upon waking) "Light in eyes: she buries her face in her pillow because the light is an eye operation... in the scalpel light."
"Kathleen is an abandoned mine." (after c-section/death)
knocking) "The door is thumping like a heart attack."
(happy)"He was Aladdin in an orchard dripping with diamonds."
"It was all boarded up, but he set to work, prying planks off windows, healing the blind."
"Her hair smells like the raw edge of spring."
(he was a) Cucumber in a woollen suit." (vs cool as a cucumber).
"A bookish girl, plain as a rainy Tuesday."
And possibly my very mostest favorite-est one of all:

"...enough merchandise to Mephistophelize a miner's wife."
I didn't know that word could be a verb!! :)

Oh the story? The Plot? Also fabulous. WORTH READING. Worth reading twice. Follows a young man in Nova Scotia and his life in a mining town. His young wife, their children and later the story of the children's lives... Epic. Amazing. Disgusting. Compelling. Sweet. Horrible. EVERYTHING a wonderful novel should be (and is).

Okay just go read it already.