Part of my job at the library where I work is hosting book clubs. We have two book clubs going on this summer so I am reading a lot of books. I just finished reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King. I am not a Stephen King reader. This is the first book of his I have read. It took me a while to really get into the story but once I did, I really liked it. I’m very surprised by this because I am what you call a classic “chic lit” kind of reader. I love my books to have a happy little ending. I am also a huge Nicholas Sparks fan and that’s kind of funny because he doesn’t always do that. We are having two meeting to discuss 11/22/63 because it’s such a large book. The first meeting went really well and that makes my job so much easier when they do. I love when a book can really get you thinking and that opens the door to great discussions. 11/22/63 is about a man who travels back in time to stop the assassination of President Kennedy. While in the past he starts to change things. He sees it as helping people but in reality he’s making things worse. The book opens the question if you could go back and change a part of history would you? Do you think that changing what was a horrible time in our history, make a better future? If you get the chance to read 11/22/63 please do. You won’t be disappointed.
Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away . . . but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake’s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner’s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke. . . . Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten . . . and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful.
Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away . . . but an even more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake’s friend Al, owner of the local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner’s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke. . . . Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten . . . and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful.
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