Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated by the blogger. In this case, me.
This is my first time participating!
This week- I am most excited about next weeks release of -
"Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining,
in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance
and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of
murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a
tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance.
They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their
RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone
learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that
children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to
death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the
Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has
been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of
despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New
Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a
nursing home where his remnant shining power provides the crucial final
comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor
Sleep.”
Then Dan meets the evanescent
Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever
seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for
Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a
gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of
The Shining and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the King canon."
Who else likes Stephen King? What is your favorite book by King? Anyone else looking forward to this release or lucky enough to read it already?
