Last night I took a walk after dark

I swing the place called Palisdic Park

to have you love it and see what I could see

That's where the girl's arm

I took a ride on a shoot

That girl I sat down the was all the old cute.

And it was all over here.

Hello, welcome to Stephen King's one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

And this week I'm reviewing a little book from 2013 that doesn't get a lot of attention

that clocks in just under 300 pages that is a deviation from his more famous horror

and suspense genres that he is famous for.

And instead, he gives us just a little tale of becoming a man and growing up and finding

oneself in a very, very brief coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of an amusement park of broken hearts and first loves and first heartbreak, all wrapped up in a little mystery thriller known as Joyland.

Now, I am forever more going to have very positive memories of Joyland.

I distinctly remember picking it up and reading it in the spring of 2013.

And I remember being out on the water in my kayak in June of 2013 in the morning of the day that I got married and I just that's always going to be a part that

in when I think of that day I'm always going to think of how I started that day, because I couldn't be in the house.

I needed to get out of the house because I couldn't see my wife and she needed me out of the house.

So I needed to stay busy, so I threw the kayak on the roof rack, drove to one of my spots, hung out on the water, just reflected on life, finished up this book.

So it's always going to be there.

And I just have nothing but good memories reading this book.

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