This weekend brought with it a cooler breeze, one that catches the leaves and sends them fluttering to the ground. Still green, but with a distinct yellowing around the edges, each leaf catches and holds my imagination for all things fall.
I don't know why I am drawn to inexplicable novels that contain things best left to dark imaginings except that I know these things cannot happen. Or, at least I hope not. I don't like biographies or even autobiographies because I'm not the least bit interested in another person's life. I want tales of good and evil, things that cannot be true, at least in this dimension.
It is no secret Stephen King is my favorite author. Not that I would want to spend the night with him in some creepy house. Uh, no. I can't imagine what goes on in his mind. If you want to get into the mood for Halloween though, you can't find a better place to start than with Bag of Bones.
Here is Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel -- a tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan?
It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to
be one of our most moving as well.
Yep, this is a good one. Sure to get you in the mood for pumpkins and ghosts.
(((hugs)))
Louann
I don't know why I am drawn to inexplicable novels that contain things best left to dark imaginings except that I know these things cannot happen. Or, at least I hope not. I don't like biographies or even autobiographies because I'm not the least bit interested in another person's life. I want tales of good and evil, things that cannot be true, at least in this dimension.
It is no secret Stephen King is my favorite author. Not that I would want to spend the night with him in some creepy house. Uh, no. I can't imagine what goes on in his mind. If you want to get into the mood for Halloween though, you can't find a better place to start than with Bag of Bones.
Here is Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel -- a tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan?
It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to
be one of our most moving as well.
Yep, this is a good one. Sure to get you in the mood for pumpkins and ghosts.
(((hugs)))
Louann
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