I forgot I had this blog, not that anyone had been reading it (although I hope there might have been one person out there). I discovered it today, when I was looking at starting up another blog which I have to do for an English Composition class (yay!). That one is something about literacy, I think. But now I'm going to get back to reviewing the books I'm reading. It might also have some new elements, like bits about me writing my own stuff (since I do want to be a writer).
Anyway, the last book I read was Lisey's Story by Stephen King. Before I started it I thought it was pronounced Lie-zee, but in the first paragraph, King is very smart to say that it is short for Lisa and pronounced to rhyme with Cici (I think that's what he used). But that's not about the book at all.
The book is about a woman trying to move on two years after the death of her husband, who was an award winning writer. As the inside jacket says, they were intimate, sometimes to a frightening point. And it's true! This novel I can safely say is not one of Stephen King's horror novels. Like The Green Mile it wasn't about scaring the reader, but it still had King's fantastical elements (a place called Boo'ya Moon in this book).
Once again I was impressed with King. He is a master storyteller and he has shown why he is my favorite author. It's long, of course, but everything is curcial in it, compared to some of his other long books (I hated It because it had so many worthless parts that could have been eliminated). His descriptions, images, and settings are still vivid in my mind. I can see all the characters, and I can see Boo'ya Moon. I wish I knew how he did it.
4.5 stars!
The next book will be About a Boy by Nick Hornby, a British author I have never heard of.
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