The Deep End of the Ocean
Registered by rem_THK-795888 on 3/30/2004
3 journalers for this copy...
Registered for the 1,000,000/Convention Challenge.
Journal Entry 2 by rem_THK-795888 at N/A in N/A, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Friday, July 9, 2004
Released on Friday, July 09, 2004 at n/a in n/a, given to a fellow BCer Controlled Releases.
off to annulla
off to annulla
Yvi-1 sent this to me by mail. Thanks, Yvi-1!
This is a beautiful, terrible, heartbreaking novel. I read it years ago and just re-read it. It made me cry all over again. Here's an excerpt -- the subject of this passage is Beth, whose son Ben vanished while they were attending a reunion held in a hotel:
" ... she returned home, weeks after the reunion, and noticed how she
had begun to lose everything with remarkable ease, how keys, checks,
paper money floated from her hands as if they had their own kinetic
lives. Beth would stand in her kitchen unable to remember, as she
unpacked a grocery bag or folded laundry, where cereal went and where
sheets. She learned to regard it as chronic, like a limp after an
accident.
It was only when she looked back at its progress that Beth could see
her impairment was a deliberate choice, not a temporary fog that
could have burned off when she felt equal to seeings things clearly.
The impairment was her training. She taught herself to veer off,
mentally, into the tall grass of lost school forms and stuffed
peppers, at the first hint that a memory of Ben, or of that day, was
about to break the surface.
Beth knew that she could not bear up under those thoughts; and she
could not heal without inviting them. And so she had made the choice,
it seemed now, to not heal. Instead, she would try to live around the
friable edges of a crater, to tread softly and avoid what she had
come to think of as the avalanche."
Time for it to find a new reader.
This is a beautiful, terrible, heartbreaking novel. I read it years ago and just re-read it. It made me cry all over again. Here's an excerpt -- the subject of this passage is Beth, whose son Ben vanished while they were attending a reunion held in a hotel:
" ... she returned home, weeks after the reunion, and noticed how she
had begun to lose everything with remarkable ease, how keys, checks,
paper money floated from her hands as if they had their own kinetic
lives. Beth would stand in her kitchen unable to remember, as she
unpacked a grocery bag or folded laundry, where cereal went and where
sheets. She learned to regard it as chronic, like a limp after an
accident.
It was only when she looked back at its progress that Beth could see
her impairment was a deliberate choice, not a temporary fog that
could have burned off when she felt equal to seeings things clearly.
The impairment was her training. She taught herself to veer off,
mentally, into the tall grass of lost school forms and stuffed
peppers, at the first hint that a memory of Ben, or of that day, was
about to break the surface.
Beth knew that she could not bear up under those thoughts; and she
could not heal without inviting them. And so she had made the choice,
it seemed now, to not heal. Instead, she would try to live around the
friable edges of a crater, to tread softly and avoid what she had
come to think of as the avalanche."
Time for it to find a new reader.
Journal Entry 4 by annulla at Starbucks - See Notes in New York City, New York USA on Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Released on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 at Starbucks on Broadway in Times Sq. in New York, New York USA.
Left on ledge (near the milk & sugar) around 9:00 a.m.
Left on ledge (near the milk & sugar) around 9:00 a.m.
I was on vacation in New York with a friend of mine and he wanted to get some coffee. We went into the Starbucks at Time Square and he was giving his order and I was looking around and saw the book laying on the ledge. I'm from Milwaukee and just had been told by a friend about bookcrossing right before I left for vacation. So, I recognized what I had found and was very excited.
CAUGHT IN NEW YORK CITY NY USA
CAUGHT IN NEW YORK CITY NY USA
