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Fave author Stephen King has made two surprise appearances in my life this week.
The first was at Target this Sunday during the final leg of a semi-extravagant shopping spree. I was browsing in the book section when I spotted the men's magazines. I always like to see if Scarlett Jo is on any of the covers, and while she wasn't the cover of Esquire did catch my eye. It had nothing to do with Angelina
In the emotional aftermath of her baby’s sudden death, Em starts running. Soon she runs from her husband, to the airport, down to the Florida Gulf and out to the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key, where her father has offered the use of a conch shack he has kept there for years. Em keeps up her running—barefoot on the beach, sneakers on the road—and sees virtually no one. This is doing her all kinds of good, until one day she makes the mistake of looking into the driveway of a man named Pickering. Pickering also enjoys the privacy of Vermillion Key, but the young women he brings there suffer the consequences….
Two days later I was surprised again. In my mailbox I found one of the brown boxes that means a new book has arrived. I knew it was from the Stephen King library, but wasn't aware that he had published a new book. And he actually hasn't. The book Blaze is actually the last of the Richard Bachman books, and what King calls in the book's introduction a "trunk" novel. King resurrected the novel after the fun he had writing The Colorado Kid, a noirish detective novel.
I'm in the middle of a book so I haven't begun either of these, but I can't wait. Even at his worst King is at least entertaining.
