Hello Dear Readers!
I fear I have been neglectful... clearly since there are no posts from 2022! I am so sorry. I promise I have been reading books and expanding my mind. I wanted to post about a book that was recommended by my local bookstore. It's an amazing book to just have for your book collection. The book is created to look like an older hardbound book complete with a dewy decimal system sticker for library organizational purposes. Inside is a treasure trove of information to take the reader on an immersive experience. It's tiered too! You have the novel to read, but then you have trinkets tucked into the pages from "other readers" as well as handwritten notes in the margins from two people trying to solve the mystery! It is epic! It also will take dedicated time to sit down, absorb, and unravel. I figure when my kids are in middle or high school I will get some time to sit and enjoy. While we, or rather while I, wait, I am going to try and add a short video I took of me flipping through my book so you can see how amazing it is! Fingers crossed the video works!
The novel is called S by J.J. Abrams and it is about:
"One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.
THE BOOK: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V. M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.
THE WRITER: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumours that swirl around him.
THE READERS: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears."