“But everyone also lives in the world inside their own head.
An inscape, a world of thought.” Truth.
19.13 NOS4A2
I just read a 690-page book in a week! Who-Hoo!!! I’m back baby. Thank you Joe Hill for the right book
at the right time – and for scaring the crap out of me!!!
Joe Hill, much like his dad, takes something everyday and
makes it totally creepy. Like IT
becoming morphing into whatever the individual is scared of, or like The
Shining where you are locked up inside the place that is literally making you
crazy, and in NOS4A2 where Hill takes on Christmas.
You know when you walk around Target at Christmas time and there
is music playing, and trees everywhere, and it is fun for about 15
minutes? That is what Christmasland
sounds like to me, so fun for a little while and then I would want it to be
over, but for a kid? Heaven. Just
yesterday, Darren was asking when Santa was coming again. No thought to the fact that a creepy
old man coming down the chimney into our home is totally freaky! Anyway, Charlie Manx likes to take
little children to Christmasland, a place he has created in his mind. And maybe the best part of the book for
me was when Hill reminds us that many things that are now reality were once
just imaginary. See… Taking something
that we all do, daydream, and making the reality totally reasonable. That for me is scary and enticing at
the same time. So the story drew
me in, and I was finally able to get lost again, but I have to say that when I
found myself humming a Christmas carol during breakfast on Saturday I almost
came out of my skin.
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