http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/21/15329670-dallas-to-mark-50th-anniversary-of-jfks-assassination-with-memorial-ceremony?lite
Now that I've brought the room down, I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving!
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Showing posts with label 11/22/63. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 11/22/63. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
11/22/63 Update
Just wanted to send out this link really quickly before our Thanksgiving break. Dallas is planning a memorial for the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/21/15329670-dallas-to-mark-50th-anniversary-of-jfks-assassination-with-memorial-ceremony?lite
Now that I've brought the room down, I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving!
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/21/15329670-dallas-to-mark-50th-anniversary-of-jfks-assassination-with-memorial-ceremony?lite
Now that I've brought the room down, I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving!
Saturday, November 17, 2012
11/22/63 Review and Discussion Questions
11/22/63 asks the question- if you could go back in time and change the past, would you? More importantly, should you? Spoilers about the past and future ahead.
Jake Epping is a recently divorced, high school English teacher who, according to his ex-wife, cannot cry. One night while reading the papers of his Adult English students, he reads one that touches him and he does cry. The story, written by the high school's janitor, Harry Dunning, describes the night that his father came home with a hammer and murdered his mother and two older brothers, put his little sister into a coma that she would never awaken from, and permanently crippled, both physically and mentally, Harry.
Two years later, Jake is taken in the backroom of his friend Al's diner. Although he had seen Al only the day before, Jake is taken aback by the changes he sees in Al. Al tells him the truth- in his pantry, there is a passage to 1958. Every trip back is the first time that you go and it only takes two minutes according to 2011, no matter how long you spend in the past. He has been going back in time to buy meat for the diner, but had become obsessed with the Kennedy assassination. He wasn't sure that he would be able to do it, so he went back to change the life of one girl who was crippled by a stray bullet. It was in these attempts that he discovered that the past doesn't want to be changed. But he was convinced that if Kennedy was to live, the world would be a much better place, so he keeps working. His last trip lasted 4 years as he tracked Lee Harvey Oswald, but he had to return to 2011 when he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He then recruits Jake to finish his work and stop Oswald from killing Kennedy. Jake is skeptical, but agrees to go back on a test run first to check the butterfly effect. Remembering Harry Dunning's story, he decides to go back and save Harry's whole family.
Jake Epping is a recently divorced, high school English teacher who, according to his ex-wife, cannot cry. One night while reading the papers of his Adult English students, he reads one that touches him and he does cry. The story, written by the high school's janitor, Harry Dunning, describes the night that his father came home with a hammer and murdered his mother and two older brothers, put his little sister into a coma that she would never awaken from, and permanently crippled, both physically and mentally, Harry.
Two years later, Jake is taken in the backroom of his friend Al's diner. Although he had seen Al only the day before, Jake is taken aback by the changes he sees in Al. Al tells him the truth- in his pantry, there is a passage to 1958. Every trip back is the first time that you go and it only takes two minutes according to 2011, no matter how long you spend in the past. He has been going back in time to buy meat for the diner, but had become obsessed with the Kennedy assassination. He wasn't sure that he would be able to do it, so he went back to change the life of one girl who was crippled by a stray bullet. It was in these attempts that he discovered that the past doesn't want to be changed. But he was convinced that if Kennedy was to live, the world would be a much better place, so he keeps working. His last trip lasted 4 years as he tracked Lee Harvey Oswald, but he had to return to 2011 when he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He then recruits Jake to finish his work and stop Oswald from killing Kennedy. Jake is skeptical, but agrees to go back on a test run first to check the butterfly effect. Remembering Harry Dunning's story, he decides to go back and save Harry's whole family.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Reminder- We Go Back in Time on Saturday!
Hello everyone! Just wanted to drop a quick reminder that our meeting for 11/22/63 is THIS SATURDAY from 1-3pm at the Ladysmith Branch Library. I hope to see you all there so that we can discuss the book. If you can't be there on Saturday, I'll be posting the final review and discussion questions around the same time.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
11/22/63 Reading Schedule
Since it's been almost 2 weeks since our meeting, almost everyone knows that our next book is 11/22/63 by Stephen King. It's got time travel, assassinations, and a little bit of romance- what more could you ask for!
We'll be reading this book for the month of November. Very timely, don't you think? Our meeting will be Saturday, November 17th from 1-3pm in the Ladysmith Library Meeting Room. I'll also be posting our review and discussion questions here on that same day (I promise). Happy reading!
We'll be reading this book for the month of November. Very timely, don't you think? Our meeting will be Saturday, November 17th from 1-3pm in the Ladysmith Library Meeting Room. I'll also be posting our review and discussion questions here on that same day (I promise). Happy reading!
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