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2 book bricksWhen 11/22/63 landed with a thud on my doorstep, I knew I was in for a hefty brick of a read. As I pulled the nearly one-pound beast out of the oversized shipping box … it loomed.

At 842 pages, however, this book is more than 200 pages shorter than the last Stephen King novel I read, Under the Dome, which is 1072 pages.

I decided to size them up together, and in this light, 11/22/63 does look much more manageable.

Still, I find it most ironic that King took a jibe at the length of Donna Tartt’s The GoldFinch, which clocks in at a mere 784 pages. “Don’t drop it on your foot,” he joked at the end of his review for The New York Times Book Review (in which he mostly gushed with enthusiasm).

I will keep that foot precaution in mind as I dig into 11/22/63 in anticipation of this Friday, Nov. 22nd, the 50th anniversary of that infamous date.

Even better, I am reading this as part of the #112263Along organized by Kristin of My Little Heart Melodies, and I love seeing all the tweets and posts from other readers.

The readalong goes for another month through Sunday 12/22 (did I mention it was a long book?) so please join us!

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Today we kick off the #112263Along! This two-month readalong of Stephen King’s 11/22/63 is hosted by Kristin, of My Heart Little Melodies. And, I am very excited to be her sidekick co-host. Check out Kristin’s introductory post:

Life Turns on A Dime—a Readalong of 11/22/63 by Stephen King

The group read runs until Dec 22. The midway point will be *the* date of the title, November 22, which this year is the 50th anniversary of the day JKF was shot (a pivitol plot point).

We thought this would be a perfect timing to read 11/22/63, which has a time-travel angle. Though its not a horror story, it does seem fitting to start a Stephen King book in the run up to Halloween.

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