When I was a kid there were books that I loved so much that I wanted to be in them.
I thought about the characters for weeks, months, years after I'd finished reading.
Six Impossible Things is a book like that for me. I fell in love with Dan and Fred and Lou and Estelle and Janie and even Jayzo. The voices are original and real. The dialogue is sharp and funny.
This book is full of insight and wit and sometimes sadness. But it's a sweet kind of sadness - sweet in the best possible way.
I love books that make me think about what it is to be human, about what it is we're all doing here. And this book does that. It made me wonder about the attics we all have inside us - places where we keep things we long for, places where we collect and store the things that get us through.
In my attic I've made a place to keep Six Impossible Things.
Published on August 06, 2010 05:27