Writing sample…

So…I’ve been reading a lot of other writer blogs lately and one thing so many of them do is post small excerpts from their work in progress.  I thought I’d do the same.  I’m trying not to put anything out there that would give away the portions of my story that I think are better discovered within the actual pages, but I do have some short sections that I love, either for the imagery or the emotional nature of the piece.  I’d love to know what you think.

Ethan read the same sentence for the fourth time.  It was pointless; he couldn’t concentrate.  He rubbed his eyes and looked up.  The library was one of his favorite rooms in the castle.  It was a perfect combination of functionality and beauty.  Three of the four walls jutted out from the northern side of the main castle.  Stacks of bookshelves alternated with tall narrow windows, giving a landscape view overlooking the sheer cliff on which the room was built.  It had become somewhere Ethan could find peace and quiet, a place to think.  It was the one place he could be completely alone, where he could escape the suffocating atmosphere of the rest of the castle, and society.