Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast One Man's Musing on the Works of Stephen King.

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

And this week is the little book that could about a little girl that could.

A quick little story that plunges an 11-year-old girl into a world stripped of all comfort

into not necessarily a supernatural landscape,

but the even more frightening landscape of the natural world.

And the few hundred pages that we spend with a titular character, we see just how scary our

real world can be, and more importantly, how brave we can be when we refuse to let the fear overtake us.

Today, I'll be reviewing 1999s, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Now, this is a quick, fun little romp through the woods of a novel.

If it was released today, I guarantee you that it would be billed as Stephen King's young adult

novel.

It's short enough and it focuses on a young heroine who will overcome great conflict.

It's a novel that I have a rudimentary memory of reading.

Maybe it's because not a lot happens, which isn't to say that it's boring because it isn't,

but when it first came out, I wanted monsters wanted the supernatural and when I realized that I wasn't going to get that

I either consciously or unconsciously didn't fully invest myself into what King was doing with the narrative

which isn't fair to King and it isn't't fair to Trisha, the girl who loved

Tom Gordon.

This is a novel that I've been really looking forward to rereading because I'd be able to

experience it without any preconceived expectations.

I would be able to judge it for what it was and not judge it for what it was not the way that I had the first time around.

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