Jewells of Thought

Books. Some can seem magical. There are times that pages out of a book literally take me to the Collosseum of Carthage, where the abrasive sand of the floor can sting my eyes from feeling like I’m in the Proconsul’s balcony seat seeing a ferocious fight. Do you ever feel like that while reading a book?

The idea that a book can transport you maybe not physically, but emotionally, does this sound crazy to you? Have you experienced this yourself?

Personally as a lover of history, getting the facts as accurate as I can is my mission. While at the same time fleshing out characters in between the facts using corresponding history from other records is just as necessary. Making up stories goes against my passion for curating and maintaining accounts of varying arrays of the broad topic; history.

The Carthage Chronicles, once I opened the book, consumed my interest and my time until it was finished. Like a good amount of the books I read, their vortex pulls in. The time traveling was made believable and both the 3rd and 21st centuries were soundly accurate. The romance was fun and wonderfully crafted, but there was always going to be a separation… living between the centuries. The first book for me was like a perfect balance of romance and history with the intriguing medical knowledge and lack of it… thrown in between.

This first book was entrancing enough for me without the thought of one more book or two as it was. The moments of stepping into history like this young woman does is such an exciting moment until, as she finds out, there are consequences to decisions and standing for those decisions. Now this character was made for this idea; the life that she was generously given by Ms. Gentry allowed for her knowledge of the Roman language. I sure would not have known the languages of any of the 3rd Century Countries like she did.

This book is not the first one to make me self-reflect. However, it did affect me in a big way. The words I was left introspecting myself with were: sacrifice, longing, purpose, desire, endings. Do you ever feel like you are missing out on something? One of my abilities is to adapt, I have always felt that I have a purpose and maybe even more than one. How many times though, can a person adapt before the person becomes someone else entirely?

Somehow even as I have finished this series at least three times now there are so many aspects as to what makes these books so engaging and relevant. These three books came out right before Covid happened to the world. This last time I actually saw how different the actual pandemic in these books were compared to the plandemic. It didn’t register to me until this last go through of the books… how Lynne brought this up just a couple years before we were subjugated to bureaucrats decisions and not our own elected officials.

The Solicitor of Carthage, Cyprian was a young believer according to the book. However the time frame is a bit fuzzy he was at least 50 for the events that are talked about and lived through in these books. This story is fascinating to me and I would never have known all of this without being pulled to this first book in my favorite christian book store.

Dreams coming to life is how I look at this book in a sense of awe. A book that can bring to my senses things I can only read and dream about. My life sometimes seems like a soap opera with two big families, divorces, injuries and not always knowing God’s will. Literally, this first book was a history lesson with a jolt of reality of how life was harsh in the 3rd Century. Many cannot comprehend that here in America living in the 21st Century.

Will our lives matter enough to have a few sentences in a history book in the next Century, if the Lord tarries, as Cyprian did!