April 20, 2005
lost boy lost girl
I started to read In The Night Room by Peter Straub and realized almost right away it was a sequel so I closed it and got lost boy lost girl instead. I really enjoy Peter Straub's books but sometimes I have a little trouble following the logic of them. He has a couple of recurring characters, Tim Underhill (a writer) and Tom Pasmore (a detective), and for a while I was getting the two of them mixed up. Now I finally have it straight in my head who is who. lost boy lost girl could be classified a mystery, a thriller, horror or as all three. The basic storyline is that Tim has to return to his hometown twice ... once because his sister-in-law killed herself for apparently no reason and in a particularly gruesome way and then again because his nephew disappeared soon after.
There's lots of questions. Why did the mom kill herself? Where did the boy disappear to? What's up with that creepy house that no one ever seemed to notice before?
Some of the questions are answered but it doesn't all seem to fit sometimes. I couldn't put the book down but it left me with a slightly unsatisfied feeling. Well, this next book is a sequel so maybe my questions will be answered -- or maybe not.
Read on, especially you book lovers!
I was reading a journal the other day and the writer talked about Book Crossing a totally cool travelling library type of idea. Basically, you take a book and register it online, write the Book Crossing ID# inside with the URL of the website, you read it, maybe do a review and either give it to someone or "release it in the wild". By that, you just leave the book lying out somewhere so that someone else can find it. Yesterday, I left a book in the doctor's office. It's a neat way to connect with other readers, too, because there is a message board and an email list.
I'll probably release the two Straub books into the wild at some point.
What was your father's occupation?
He was a printer for major newspapers in the Baltimore/Washington DC area
What was your mother's occupation?
a key punch operator
Deaf people born in the 1920s and 1930s didn't have much choice in the way of occupations. Men became printers, machinists, or factory workers. Women were key punch operators or seamstresses.
What similarities does your life share with your same sex parent?
Well, on the up side, we both like to read and write and are both warm, loving people
On the down side, we both have arthritis, depression, and self-isolation
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