Tuck Everlasting
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3 journalers for this copy...
Tuck Everlasting arrived today. Thanks so much for the RABCK and fulfilling my Wish, News-Hound! People like you make Bookcrossing extra special. :-)
I took this book on a vacation with me. I enjoyed it very much. It is funny how this book escaped my attention as a child. I was such a voracious reader and would read stacks of books at a time. Anyway, as I became lost in the Tuck family's story , I was magically transported to those long lost sunny, summer days of my youth, laying on a blanket in the yard, going on many book adventures. Thanks again for sharing your book with me. I have a traveling adventure lined up for this wonderful little tale.
Sending this book out in my Box Full of Magical, Mystical Stories and Dangerous Beasties Bookbox. Happy Travels!
I'm claiming this book from the Magical Mystical bookbox.
[The book inspired a 2002 film version, which I found to be a pretty good adaptation, but not as atmospheric as the 1981 film.]
The story's simple: [spoilers follow]
A lonely girl in a small country town is hiding out deep in the woods, when she encounters a handsome young man, Jesse Tuck. They seem to hit it off quite well, even though he's unusually insistent that she not drink from a small spring, even though she saw him do it. When his father shows up, he's very upset to see her there, and promptly tosses her onto the back of his horse and carries her off to their cabin! Come to find out that the whole family - Jesse, his parents, and his older brother - share an unusual secret having to do with that spring: they don't age and can't die...
The plot includes an adventurer who's heard of the spring and wants to make money off of the water, and there's a poignant tale by Jesse's brother about what happens when you try to make a life and family with someone who is going to age and die while you still look like a 20-year-old. And Jesse, after explaining to the girl that he stopped her from drinking the water because if she did she'd remain 11 years old forever, but suggests that if she waits until she's 17 ("same age as I am") she could drink it then, and then they might even get married. [Pause to contemplate the weirdness of a lad who's been 17 for 80 years suggesting marriage to an 11-year-old-girl. This didn't bother me when I first read the story, but I seem to recall that the film versions always make the girl a bit older so this courtship plot doesn't feel so odd!]
The subplots cross, of course, and a disastrous event takes place, and the girl has to make one of several difficult decisions if she wants to help her new friends. And will she decide to drink from the spring at the proper time? What do you think?
It's a charming, poignant, sometimes scary fable, and I like it, but it does leave a lot of questions unanswered - perhaps for the best, given the way the subject's been treated on "Twilight Zone"!
[There's a TV Tropes page on the book and adaptations, with some entertaining tidbits.]
[The book inspired a 2002 film version, which I found to be a pretty good adaptation, but not as atmospheric as the 1981 film.]
The story's simple: [spoilers follow]
A lonely girl in a small country town is hiding out deep in the woods, when she encounters a handsome young man, Jesse Tuck. They seem to hit it off quite well, even though he's unusually insistent that she not drink from a small spring, even though she saw him do it. When his father shows up, he's very upset to see her there, and promptly tosses her onto the back of his horse and carries her off to their cabin! Come to find out that the whole family - Jesse, his parents, and his older brother - share an unusual secret having to do with that spring: they don't age and can't die...
The plot includes an adventurer who's heard of the spring and wants to make money off of the water, and there's a poignant tale by Jesse's brother about what happens when you try to make a life and family with someone who is going to age and die while you still look like a 20-year-old. And Jesse, after explaining to the girl that he stopped her from drinking the water because if she did she'd remain 11 years old forever, but suggests that if she waits until she's 17 ("same age as I am") she could drink it then, and then they might even get married. [Pause to contemplate the weirdness of a lad who's been 17 for 80 years suggesting marriage to an 11-year-old-girl. This didn't bother me when I first read the story, but I seem to recall that the film versions always make the girl a bit older so this courtship plot doesn't feel so odd!]
The subplots cross, of course, and a disastrous event takes place, and the girl has to make one of several difficult decisions if she wants to help her new friends. And will she decide to drink from the spring at the proper time? What do you think?
It's a charming, poignant, sometimes scary fable, and I like it, but it does leave a lot of questions unanswered - perhaps for the best, given the way the subject's been treated on "Twilight Zone"!
[There's a TV Tropes page on the book and adaptations, with some entertaining tidbits.]
Journal Entry 6 by 
GoryDetails
at Little Free Library, Castle in the Trees playground in Littleton, Massachusetts USA on Wednesday, December 20, 2017
GoryDetails at Little Free Library, Castle in the Trees playground in Littleton, Massachusetts USA on Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (12/20/2017 UTC) at Little Free Library, Castle in the Trees playground in Littleton, Massachusetts USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left this book in the Little Free Library near the very charming playground; hope someone enjoys it![See other recent releases in MA here.]
*** Released for the 2017 Keep Them Moving release challenge. ***
*** Released for the 2017 What's in a Name release challenge, for the embedded "eve" in the title. ***
*** Released for the 2017 Movie release challenge. ***
