replay

Yesterday I found myself at Costco with an hour to kill while I got new tires installed on my car. I moseyed over to the book department, and in a sea of titles, Replay by Ken Grimwood caught my attention.

I read for an hour in the Food Court, picked it up again at bedtime, and did not put it down until I finished it at 2 am. It has to be 5 or 10 years since I've done that - and it's exactly why I don't usually read fiction. I get so immersed in the story that I don't function!

Anyway, this book is frickin' amazing. After I finished sobbing grateful tears in recognition of the blessed gift of being human, I was stunned to see that it was written in 1986. How did I miss this masterpiece that's been around for over 20 years? And what the heck was it doing at Costco, tucked in with all the recent bestsellers? (I later saw that it's ranked 2000 something on Amazon, so I suppose it's considered a classic now ...)

Whatever. I'm just so glad it found me.

Since I need to extricate my consciousness from this story so I can function in my own life again, I'm going for a walk rather than trying to write a review myself. There are some good ones on Amazon.

I also enjoyed the Wikipedia entry on the book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_(novel)

and the author:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Grimwood