It’s hard to believe but Book Blogger Appreciation Week has come to an end. For me, this event is not about the awards. I can say that because I didn’t win any. Ha! No seriously, for me, it’s about getting to know all of YOU. I truly appreciate all that you do and it touches me that you choose to include me in your everyday routine. The comments and emails that you send make my day that much brighter. Thank you.
Since this post is supposed to be about goals, I will say this:
My goal is to reach out to the community this year. I do on an individual basis, and that may be all I want to do in the end, but a challenge or two would be nice.
Here’s to another year of blogging.
P.S. I added a signature. Like? Don’t like? Please let me know.
It’s Jake’s birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life – his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his mid-sixties, and he isn’t quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer’s.
As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they become increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean? As Jake fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he’ll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps, the memory of love, or nothing at all?
From the first sentence to the last, The Wilderness holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty.
I must get my hands on this one. What did you find this week?
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