Picked up at the thrift store for $0.59.

Wow! What an intense book. I felt it was a little lacking in character development and I had a hard time feeling sympathetic for the main character because she was so freaking wishy washy! Kilroy just made me mad. I wanted to smack him...or her for tolerating his nonsense.

All that said, while I didn't really "enjoy" the book, it did make me think, and that isn't such a bad thing. I certainly don't know what I would have done if I were in the same situation.

I will probably offer this one up as a RABCK. Reserved for lauraloo29

Arrived today! I'm going to read it quickly and then send it out as a ring. The ring I had originally signed up for has become stalled. :)

Thank you!

I have to agree with dicentragirl. I didn't enjoy this book. It did make me think. "How much do we owe the people we love?" (page 147) It was frustratingly slow for me at times. I wanted to shout at Carrie and shake her by the shoulders. I don't know what I wanted her to do, I just wanted her to do it faster. I found Kilroy creepy and sad. I was a little jealous of Carrie being financially able to take almost a year off her life and just figure it out. I'm not sure how realistic that was.

I'll get this ready for its trip as a ring. Thank you for sharing!

This will go out as a replacement ray (was originally a ring, but I don't need it back so it will end with the irishajo, the original starter - thus a ray).

Original ring

Here is the order.

tnelson99 - US
Hellie - UK
Ftarazu - Portugal
titihood - Canada (US/Can)
irishajo - US

Enjoy!

I received this a day or two ago and will get to it once I'm finished with the one I'm in the middle of....THANKS for sharing!

Awesome book. Didnt think I would really get into it, but once I did I could not put it down! A wonderful book and I think they are making it into a tv movie, so I'll have to catch that too! I am PM'ing the next in line, Hellie, and will get it in the mail as soon as I get the address. THANKS FOR SHARING!

PM'ing Hellie again as still havent heard from her. Just wanted to update! THANKS!

I am assuming that Hellie is still on holiday, so I am going to PM the next in line, Ftarazu, and get the book out to her/him. If I hear from Hellie, I will have her added again to the list. THANKS ALL!

This is in the mail to Ftarazu today! Enjoy!

Just got this book by mail...I have one book in front of this one. Will try to read it asap...

Its really a book that makes one think about life...I did enjoy the story but it was very slow in some parts and I had to skip them. Both Carrie and Kilroy made me wanna scream and ask what was wrong with them...But, in part, I think I can understand her, I dont know what would I do if I were in the same situation and Im not sure I would have follow her path..I think, in the end, she was the one who lost a lot...

There were some sentence that I loved in the book:
"There were things I'd seen in him that perhaps no one else had ever seen or noticed - wouldn't those things disappear along with my apprehension of them?"
"How much do we owe the people we love? How much do we owe them?"

Will send to titihood as soon as I have an address

Received today and am looking forward to reading it in my soon-to-start metro journeys to and from work. They're won't be that long (only about 10 mins) but a lot of reading can be done in them! :)
26/12/05: Well, I have had this rather longer than I intended but must say that it is one of those books that has touched on my life in a rather profound way. Do you ever get books that you read that seem so much like your own life and the kinds of things you are feeling or the choices you feel you have in front of you? This happens to me quite often, especially in times of crisis within myself.
Luckily no-one close to me has been in an accident like Mike's, but I have been questioning the relative merits of freedom vs. the pleasure of the known, of how to feel alive within the confines of my reality. Of whether or not I still want to be in the reality that I dreamed of since I was a teenager. I could completely understand Carrie's uncertainty, but at the same time was annoyed by her ability to live for ages in New York without a job, to make friends so easily and not seem to go through any devastating mental turmoil. She seemed pretty sure of herself from the beginning, just it was buried a little deeply inside her, yet she seemed to act as if she knew it was there. I think those were the only things that piqued a bit...other than that a fantastically written story, especially for my state of mind (though that state explains why it took me so much more time to finish it). Thanks for sharing Lauraloo

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Sent to irishajo :)