Haven’t read fiction in months.
Sharon Guskin‘s debut novel is an Amazon Best Book of February, 2016.
I don’t believe in reincarnation.
NY Times Book Review: “Sounds ludicrous. It shouldn’t work. But Guskin pulls off the silly premise with a gripping, deft and moving mystery.”
And, swept away by this page turner.
Here’s a biscuit…
“This never would have happened in India. In India they understood that life unfolded the way it unfolded, whether you liked it or not: the cow in the road, the swerve that saves or kills you. One life ended, a new one began, maybe it was better than the last one, maybe it wasn’t. The Indians (and the Thais, and the Sri Lankans) accepted this the way they accepted the monsoons or the heat, with a resignation that was like simple good sense. Damned Americans. Americans, unschooled in the burning dung heaps and the sudden swerves, Americans couldn’t help but cling tightly to the life they were living like clutching a spindly branch that was sure to break … and when things didn’t go quite as expected, Americans lost their shit. Himself included.”
~ Sharon Guskin, The Forgetting Time: A Novel
Notes:
- NY Times Book Review of The Forgetting Time: Psychological Suspense
- Related posts: Sharon Guskin
SO mine kind of book! Thanks DK for the recommendation 💛
Hope you enjoy!
You Only Live Once. (YOLO) That’s what people said, as if life really mattered because it happened only one time. But what if it was the other way around? What if what you did mattered more because life happened again and again, consequences unfolding across centuries and continents? What if you had chances upon chances to love the people you loved, to fix what you screwed up, to get it right?
~ Sharon Guskin, The Forgetting Time: A Novel
Come on now, stop examining yourself and just feel it, will you?
~ Sharon Guskin, The Forgetting Time: A Novel
Definitely checking this one out.
I do read fiction. And, reincarnation intrigues me. That quote you shared about, ‘what if you (we) had chances and chances….” totally intriguing to me. This one must go on the list!
Hope you enjoy!
I’m open to reincarnation, I think we can never learn all that we are meant to the first time around,….For some us it’s more than a few times ha! We don’t know, but maybe Sharon makes it seem that little more believable?
Of course you are open to it Shinto. Of course.
Laughing!
She has written several awesome books.
🙂
M
She has!? Everything I’ve read stated that this was her debut novel…Please point me to her other books if you can
What If…. .. 2 words I love 🙂
You had me at hello, pal. Into the queue it goes!
sounds brilliant – can’t wait to read it
Into the pile!
Well damn it all…here I go. Again.
Ha!
I do believe in reincarnation, not based on facts, let’s say not enough facts.
But I would like to come back again and again, one life time is nowhere near enough!
The YOLO you shared in one of your comments and how the author feels about it cracks me up.
The two “only”s that drive me insane. ..
“You ONLY live once”/what if you don’t only live once?
&
“I’m ONLY human”/ “only” human?
I’m locked in on this sentence: “But I would like to come back again and again, one life time is nowhere near enough!”
Oh, so me too!