from the TLC book sale for releasing

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

If you aren't familiar with Bookcrossing, take a few minutes to check out this very cool site. Bookcrossers LOVE books, and more than anything, they love to read books and then set them free for other people to find and enjoy. You can say how you liked it when you read it. Then, pass it along for someone else to enjoy! Thanks and happy reading!

This arrived safely today--along with another book! Thank you nancynova for your generous RABCK, and also for the postcard, bookmarks and BC labels. I know I will enjoy this and I know a friend whom I think will also!

I finished this book tonight; I'm not sure why it took me so long. I began reading it shortly after receiving it, and read about a third of the stories, and then didn't finish it for some reason. At the end of January I picked it up again, partially because of Iiwi's challenge of reading the oldest book registered by another Bookcrosser on your TBR pile. I'm really glad that I got back to this one--most of my favourite stories came in last two thirds of the book that I've read over these past weeks. I admit that I am totally in awe of Stephen King's imagination. There is so much depth and scope in these stories, and even the minor characters are so real and well-drawn. I have no idea where gets so MANY ideas from. Several of these stories could have been novels in themselves.
Some favourites were Sneakers, Home Delivery, Rainy Season and Sorry, Right Number. Oh, and The Ten O'Clock People, The House on Maple Street, and Umney's Last Case.
The Notes at the end where he explains some of the things that gave him ideas for the stories was also fascinating. Here's a good quote at the very end of that:
"Okay; stick it on the shelf and take care of yourself until we meet again. Read a few good books, and if one of your brothers or sisters falls down and you see it happen, pick him or her up. After all, next time you might be the one who needs a hand... or a little help getting that pesky finger out of the drain, for that matter."
Great read. Will see if my friends still wants to borrow it, if not will see where it wants to go to next.

Just a week or so ago I found a bag of books that I thought I'd already released--and this was in it, so I took this with some others and left it on the remarkably active (or so it seems to me) bookswop shelf here. It's tucked just outside between the hotel and restaurant. Happy travels, little book!