Booking Through Thursday 7/31
Today’s question from Booking Through Thursday is:
What is your favorite ending line of a book?
My favorite part about finishing a book isn’t always the end line itself, but the dreamy, unfocused sensation of turning the last page, realizing it’s the last page, and sorting out the emotional tangle of having been vividly in the book’s world.
More than the specific last lines themselves, I remember, love, and reread books that lure me in so deeply, then give me the disconnected, jolted feeling of leaving their world when the last page is turned.
Some that come to mind:
Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean
Speaker for the Dead- Orson Scott Card
Callahan’s Secret- Spider Robinson
Beauty- Robin McKinley
Sunshine- Robin McKinley
I should think about this more, though, and pay attention to books’ last lines more, instead of the emotional imprint they leave
CHILDREN OF DUNE:
“One of us had to accept the agony,” she said,”and he was always the stronger.”
When you close the cover of a good read, there is a feeling of satisfaction.