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Bedtime Stories: A Novel of Cinematic Wanderlust
With a touch of Cervante's Don Quixote and Milne's Winnie the Pooh, Blum's Bedtime Stories gives readers a reason to go to bed each night beside sleep. Jake Spinner shows movies and collects stories, a cinematic wanderer whose travels and life story are told in Bedtime Stories. Jake's life is filled with coffee, movies, buffalo, donuts, tuxedos, trucks, cedar chests, polar bears, the fiery hooch of the steppes, cold weather horses, kittens, Parisian circuses, urban rodeo, pizza, Hell's Angels, Buddhists, gunslingers, Ziegfeld follies strippers, projection bulbs, cowboy artists, clarinets, opera houses, guitar shops, floods, tightrope walkers, hot digs, poets, hobos, philosopher mechanics, wood-stoves, amorous weightlifters, Raquel Welch doubles, abandoned towns, incendiary acts of malfeasance, Ruby Sauce, pakoras, right wing vigilantes, post offices, and the occasional flood of biblical proportions. There's even a romance or two along the way, proving that good things happen when your life is freed from the restrictions of gravity and time.
418 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 15, 2008
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August 4, 2017
I'll be honest and admit that I'm a relative of the author, that said, what I should do is give it a 5, I'm just chicken-don't want to seem biased.
I started this book many years ago, just after it's publishing. For no special reason, I set it aside, then misplaced or loaned my copy. With my mother's passing a couple years ago, I was fortunate to find her copy. When I decided it was time to finish it, I began with little expectation, not remembering any real impact from my aborted start years earlier. I was thrilled to find that I had gem that I hadn't quite finished polishing with my first attempt. Now it really began to shine as the story developed.
Joey, as I've always called my cousin, has created a rich and rewarding read. His characters were incredibly real, their stories simple yet inspiring, my emotions were often evoked to the point of having to stop to dry my blurring eyes, allowing me to continue reading, only to have to do it again before I reached the bottom of that same page.
What really hit home was the authors strong belief in books telling stories, without the need to also have an important message. I so agree, and encourage the rest of you that "just love a good read", to give this one a quiet afternoon or evening to see if it grabs you like it did me.
As I expect George Carlin might have said, "if you like to read, go ahead"!
I started this book many years ago, just after it's publishing. For no special reason, I set it aside, then misplaced or loaned my copy. With my mother's passing a couple years ago, I was fortunate to find her copy. When I decided it was time to finish it, I began with little expectation, not remembering any real impact from my aborted start years earlier. I was thrilled to find that I had gem that I hadn't quite finished polishing with my first attempt. Now it really began to shine as the story developed.
Joey, as I've always called my cousin, has created a rich and rewarding read. His characters were incredibly real, their stories simple yet inspiring, my emotions were often evoked to the point of having to stop to dry my blurring eyes, allowing me to continue reading, only to have to do it again before I reached the bottom of that same page.
What really hit home was the authors strong belief in books telling stories, without the need to also have an important message. I so agree, and encourage the rest of you that "just love a good read", to give this one a quiet afternoon or evening to see if it grabs you like it did me.
As I expect George Carlin might have said, "if you like to read, go ahead"!
December 5, 2012
One of my all time favorites......you will want to know Jake Spinner forever!
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