Amy said this was her favourite King book and so I put it on hold via Libby through my library. At thirty-one hours in length, I kept delaying the delivery and letting the next person in line take over. Finally I pulled the proverbial trigger and borrowed it this month. The story, of an English schoolteacher in, where else, Maine, who is led to a rabbit hole/time portal that deposits him in September of 1958. He is persuaded by the friend who tells him of said portal to go back in time so as to stop the Kennedy assassination, which would, they both believe, prevent the Vietnam War and save the lives of all those men and women that served. He agrees and crosses through time. Along the way, Jake Epping AKA George Amberson, our lead, finds love in a small town in Texas. I never wanted him to leave that town. I wanted the story to stop there and for Jake/George and his lady love, Sadie, to live the rest of their days simply, but so very, very happy, together, for all time. Twenty hours in and I found myself stressed to the breaking point. I didn't want to spoil the ending entirely, but I needed to know if I was going to be devastated or enraged. King doesn't have rotten endings, so I should have thought that through, but I had to message Amy and find out if I could relax a bit. Her response helped, but I was still a weeping mess by the end. An absolutely sublime piece of writing. I wish I was as gifted and imaginative a writer as Stephen King.
♥ Eddie Winston is Looking for Love ¹ by Marianne Cronin - This book needs to be made into a six episode series with Derek Jacobi as Eddie Winston. I'd love to see Judi Dench as Bridie/Birdie. For Bella I imagined a young Kiersey Clemons. A sweet story about a ninety year old man, his past, his friendships, and walking beside him as he continues to grow into one of the best characters ever. An easy man to love. (Big hugs to Autumn for telling me about this book in one of her December letters and intuiting that it would be something I’d enjoy. xoxo)
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* Sky Full of Elephants ¹ by Cebo Campbell - A brilliant concept that kept me thinking on it for days. All the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water and die. Whenever I read something from the Black perspective, I try to flip it in a way that I can understand it better. As a female, I thought about how this country would be without the oppression of men. What would life be like with no men? Funnily enough, my first thought was mirrored in the book: to be able to walk alone at night without fear. I loved the metaphor of all life's pains, anxiety, fear, and extreme emotions being like a sky full of elephants. Just floating, heavily, above us at all times.
* A Wild and Precious Life ¹ by Edie Windsor - I saw the documentary Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement back in November of 2011 and never forgot those two gals. Somewhere along the way I learned that Edie Windsor wrote a memoir. I bought a copy of it off Audible, and even though Edie doess not narrate, it was still so good. Definitely a life well led.
¹ - audiobook
² - abridged version
* - liked
♥ - loved
Any unmarked titles were, in my opinion, so-so.
* - liked
♥ - loved
Any unmarked titles were, in my opinion, so-so.
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