Follow Friday: Best Book

Well, as I am not the kind to read a lot of books in one month (well . . . sometimes), I will just focus on the best book I've read this month. (Which, this month, happens NOT to be the ONLY book I've read.) Just a few nights ago, I finished Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending. It won the Booker Prize last year, and for good reason. (Review forthcoming.) It's quite a short little thing, but don't let that fool you. Gems on every page. My poor little red pen (or green colored pencil, as it were) was overworked. Do you ever get that weird feeling sometimes like you are underlining more than you are NOT underlining? Well, I had to, otherwise I might not remember some of the best lines . . .

This book gets you thinking, really thinking. About what you've done with your life and what it's meant, and if it's meant something to you and another thing to someone else, and yet another thing to a third person, and how all those dominoes line up and fall down. And then where does that leave you? And where does it leave all those other people? And then these questions (and still others) swirl around and around in your head for days until you get disoriented and decide to read the book again from the start. In other words? An amazing novel--you ought to read it. And now I better stop before I have nothing more to say in my aforementioned forthcoming review. =)

Happy hopping!


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