I meant to space this read out over the course of a week. I had the time, and I thought this book was the kind I’d like to savor. I did all right the first day, not so good the second day, and then my plan went out the window and I devoured the rest of the book yesterday. The onset of the book hango...
Source: Library This book. This book. Sometimes you come away from a book, and you can’t even describe how you feel about it. You didn’t just read it, you experienced it. Boy’s Life is one of those books. I had highlights in basically every chapter. I fell in love with the characters, with the tow...
It would be easy to lose interest in a long, rambly story that doesn’t seem to advance any sort of plot or action for the first half, but Boy’s Life is full of paragraphs and observations that delighted me for the way they evoked a time or place or childhood emotion. Then the plot roared to life and...
Boy’s Life has been touted by our own wonderful Char as an amazing book for eons. I’d always meant to read it and when I landed on Main Street 10 I found out I had to read a book that takes place in a small town in America. Boy’s Life takes place in a small town called Zephyr, in Alabama, so it was ...
Why did I put this one off for so long? Why, why, why? Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Certainly one of the finest novels about the magic of childhood that I've ever read — and probably the most realistic, at least based on my childhood experiences. Maybe it's because I, like the protagonist of this ...
See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. Boy's Life is one of tho...
I first read Boy's Life in 2012 and I vaguely remembered enjoying it, but that was it.I had read a similar book at the same time and I managed to combine the two books in my head, so it was really like reading this book for the first time. In some ways that was good, I got to experience all those ha...
So what is there really to say really about a book I loved from beginning to end A book that made me cry a few times while reading and definitely sigh when I came to the end.There is a central mystery to Boy's Life that the main character Cory is trying to figure out, but really the main plot reall...
Boy's Life--my life--what a great story! For 600 pages I longed to be 11 again. The 60's belonged to my parents, not to me. But the magic of childhood transcends generations. I had it for a while. My kids have it now. One day my grandkids will. It does use a lot of words to get to where it goes--I...
While riding with his father on the milk route, Cory Mackenson witnesses a car plunging into a bottomless lake with a dead man handcuffed to the steering wheel. Will they figure out who the man was before the memory destroys them?Yeah, that's not a great teaser for this. How do you summarize a coupl...
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