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Lark (original poster member #43773) posted at 11:11 PM on Friday, August 1st, 2014
I picked this up at the airport after our vacation ended. I had started to read Not Just Friends on the plane and the reality of what we were returning to hit me so I wanted an escape book.
I'd never heard of it. I do like Gaiman's work but wouldn't consider myself an avid fan. It caught my eye in the bookstore and I picked it up.
I made it to page 110 before we got home.
I finished it about a week ago.
Although I think things happen for a reason or a lesson can be found from everything, It isnt' too often in my life that I can identify a moment where I'm like "I was called to that." Upon finishing this book, though, I knew I had been called to it at this point in my life and was led to pick up that book amongst all the hundreds of others.
It had a hard trigger moment. And the entire book left me a bit shaken - but I feel I was meant to read it, and even moreso I was meant to give it to my husband.
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” - Dumbledore
cmego ( member #30346) posted at 12:38 AM on Saturday, August 2nd, 2014
I read this book last year sometime...and it really affected me too. Such a...different book. Few books stay with me, but this one did!!
me...BS, 46 years old.
Divorced
nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 2:48 AM on Saturday, August 2nd, 2014
My sister lent me this book last year, and then hounded me for months until I read it. It stuck with me, too.
You can call me NIK
And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane
Elpis ( member #34118) posted at 8:19 AM on Friday, August 22nd, 2014
I enjoyed this book however, after reading "Song of Fire and Ice" (Game of Thrones) I felt read as a chapter not a novel.
Gaiman originally intended this to be a short story. IMO, his original intention was correct.
Great read. Short. Nice distraction. Recommend.
Me, BS
Hubby, WS
DDay Fall 2011
dreamlife ( member #8142) posted at 9:08 PM on Friday, August 22nd, 2014
Oh, just the title alone...now I am gonna have to read it!
~XWH told me what I wanted to hear but he always did whatever he wanted to do~
"He called me a bitch.
I called him an ambulance."
Linda H.)
traicionada ( member #10310) posted at 3:41 PM on Saturday, August 23rd, 2014
I listened to the audio version read by the author 
Real love is a CHOICE, NOT a feeling...
Lark (original poster member #43773) posted at 10:52 PM on Thursday, August 28th, 2014
after reading "Song of Fire and Ice" (Game of Thrones) I felt read as a chapter not a novel.
yes it's definitely short, especially if you've read Martin!
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” - Dumbledore
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