Last year, Barnes and Noble had a little display around December promoting their “Book of the Year”. I have a tendency to wrinkle my nose to books labeled with words like “Bestseller” and “So and So’s Book Club Selection”. Not because I dislike them. No. But because I want to decide for myself if it is a phenomenal book or not. I don’t want a bookstore forcing such sentiments. When it comes at me already labeled, I feel I lose a little bit of that opinion making process. I must now make an opinion not only on whether or not the book was a good read, but also whether it was worthy of all the fanfare it received.
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy was already on my radar thanks to several pictures I’d seen randomly through social media. Each gave me that soul warming feeling of all that is right and good in the world.
So, when I saw the book sitting in Barnes and Noble in said display, I grabbed it, hungry to see more of what was inside. The forward notes the book is meant to be for everyone, and a book which ‘you can dip into anywhere, anytime’. I love that about it. It is like a modern-day book of proverbs or in the very least, a book for self-reflection and life guidance, reminding us that even though there are parts of life which are scary, there are parts extraordinarily beautiful, too.
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