Watery eyes

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Word of the Day

rheumy  /ˈruː.mi / adjective = rheumy eyes have a lot of water in them and are not clear.  Example:  Lots of old folks have rheumy eyes.  If someone has rheumy eyes, their eyes are red and watery, usually because they are very ill or old.

I've been reading about old folks and a special cat named Oscar who knew when they were near death (info about the excellent book HERE), and I live among senior citizens.  So I see rheumy eyes in my reading, in my everyday life, and in my mirror.  Then I started another book and read this on page 3:

"Chaos is coming, old son, and there's no stopping it.  It's taken a long time, but it's finally here."

The Hermit nodded, his eyes rheumy and runny, perhaps from the wood smoke, perhaps from something else.  Olivier leaned back, surprised to feel his thirty-eight-year-old body suddenly aching, and realized he'd sat tense through the whole awful telling.

This book kept me turning the pages late into the night.

The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery (Book 5 of 19) ~ by Louise Penny, 2009, mystery, 372 pages

Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistro — including a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor.  When Chief Inspector Gamache is called to investigate, he is dismayed to discover that Olivier's story is full of holes.  Why are his fingerprints all over the cabin that's uncovered deep in the wilderness, with priceless antiques and the dead man's blood?  And what other secrets and layers of lies are buried in the seemingly idyllic village?

Gamache follows a trail of clues and treasures — from first editions of Charlotte's Web and Jane Eyre to a spiderweb with a word mysteriously woven in it — into the woods and across the continent, before returning to Three Pines to confront the truth and the final, brutal telling.