Of feelings and books.
If you are a vivid book reader, you’ll be familiar with the post-book-feelings, especially if it’s one which plays football with your heart (your heart being the ball here. I’m sure you understood that but I am trying to increase the word count, sue me!). And I have read more than a couple of books, if not too many, to be very familiar with this feeling. • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Rowling wept when she killed Fred, and so did the entire franchise. I was bummed for three or four days after this book that I couldn’t pick up another book. • Kite runner - left me in tears in the middle of night; I lost a piece of me to this book that I will never recover. • Farewell to arms - I needed a break from humanity. • A man called Ove - this is one of the books that I’ll never read again, the overwhelming feeling is not easy to deal with. • 11.22.63 - Stephen King has dug a hole in my heart so huge, more than any boy ever has or ever will. • Green Mile - my most precious and...