50 Books - Book 15

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

I enjoyed this one a great deal. It was interesting and beautifully written. Particularly interesting is having seen the movie so recently and comparing the two - some of my favorite speeches and dialogues from the movie weren't actually in the book, probably because it's so much easier to get inside a book character's head. ( spoiler-iffic specifics inside )

Overall, though it's a wonderful meditation on life and the choices we make about how fully we live our lives. I still haven;t decided if it makes the argument that you should always live on the edge, intensely, hugely, or that sometimes we do make choices that limit ourselves and our experiences and that life should be about accepting and finding happiness in the small things. I suspect it's that first one, which is, of course, why the book made me so sad.

No on to Cold Sassy Tree.