I am trying desperately hard to get into the latest Pam101 Book It Book Club selection, Lady Chatterley's Lover.
I just can't.
My brain just doesn't understand the words and how they speak.
I mean...If it isn't about vampires, nipples, or shape shifters I just don't get it.
Well, I take that back.
I do love any books that involve travel.
Which brings me to announce that Pam101 will be adding another book to this month's Book Club...
I picked this audio book from my local library to enjoy while commuting to and from work. Popped in into the cassette player this AM and LOVED EVERY WORD! Pick it up and let's discuss.
Excerpt:
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. In other words, I don’t improve; in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.
- John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, opening paragraph
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