11/22/63 – February CC Book Club Selection

[Mary13]

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@TXDivermom

About the Jimla…I had a different take than any of you. I felt it was a nonsense word created by King to give you the shivers, etc., but I felt in the end, that Jake was “the Jimla”. Rosette was having bad dreams of “The Jimla” and I felt that in the end Jake realized he had become the Jimla monster who destroyed the world.

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<p>Welcome TXDivermom! I like your take. In fact, early on the reader is clued in to the fact that Jake himself is the Jimla: On his second trip into the past, the Orange Card Man says to him, “F*** off, Jimla!” but Jake dismisses it as drunken nonsense (p. 102). But by the end of the book, Jake acknowledges his role as the “monster”: </p>

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Then I heard something else: someone was calling me, although not by either of my names.</p>

<p>“Jimla! Hey, Jimla!” (p. 792)

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<p>Re your other reading selections: I am also a fan of The Stand. And although I may be in the minority, I loved The Road by Cormac McCarthy –- well, as much as you can love a book that deals with starvation, death, suicide, cannibalism and despair from cover to cover. I found it haunting.</p>

<p>As for our next selection, I would add to Onward’s thought that if you are looking for something “fun and happy,” The Bridge of San Luis Rey is probably not it. Nonetheless, I hope you will join us. See you all on April 1st on the other thread!</p>

[ignatius]

<p>TXDivermom: Waving happily! I live in Houston … but both my parents grew up in small towns outside Lafayette, Louisiana. As a child I spent many a holiday/summer vacation in Lafayette.</p>

<p>alwaysamom: My daughter and I both watch Awake and like it - good acting! I do find it heartrending at times: in one parallel life, he and his son deal with the loss of wife/mother and in the alternate parallel universe, he and his wife deal with the loss of their only child. So … I like how his cases at work somehow cross and blur between his two worlds - the focus on his detective work across the two universes keeps the sadness at bay - at least for me. Good show, in all aspects.</p>

[NJTheatreMOM]

<p>Hi TxDiverMom. I was trying hard to think of a fun and happy book to recommend to you, and I realized that I never seem to read that kind of novel. Hmm…</p>

<p>However, based on what others have told me, I think you might like the writer Fannie Flagg.</p>

[SlitheyTove]

<p>For anyone who read the book or who is interested in the entire history of the assassination, I highly highly recommend [L.B.J</a>., After Kennedy’s Assassination : The New Yorker](<a href=“http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/02/120402fa_fact_caro]L.B.J”>The Day L.B.J. Took Charge | The New Yorker). (locked for nonsubscribers, but worth clicking through for the synopsis and for a peek at the amazing photo showing JFK and LBJ emerging from a Fort Worth theater as they prepare to drive to the airport for a flight to Dallas.)</p>

<p>The article is a lengthy extract from “The Passage of Power”, volume 4 in Robert Caro’s incredibly addictive biography of LBJ, which will be published on May 1. If you’re a fan of the series, you’re probably already going off to put in your pre-order on Amazon. If you’ve never heard of them, or of Robert Caro, and you have the slightest interest in US history…then I cannot recommend these highly enough. No matter what you think of LBJ.</p>

[alwaysamom]

The HULU eight part miniseries of 11.22.63 will premiere on February 15. Much of it was filmed in Toronto, although some scenes, particularly those outdoors, were done in Dallas.