2019 A to Z Challenge - "U"
Color Coded Challenge - Green
Summary from Goodreads: Harold Fry, recently retired lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives; a letter addressed to Harold from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye.
Harold pens a quick reply and heads to the corner mailbox. But then, he begins the unlikely pilgrimage: Harold Fry is determined to walk 600 miles to the hospice because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live.
Plot idea inspired by a certain scene in Forrest Gump maybe?
I think Harold's pilgrimage may stay with a reader for awhile. Sure it got a little boring in spots, some of his musings were drawn out a bit much and the secrets and aha moments weren't really that aha, but you wanted to see Harold's journey through to whatever end. You wanted to go out and walk and take a look around; slow down, appreciate the world; to meet people and not pass judgment and believe in the goodness of others.
Quotes: "...people would make the decisions they wished to make, and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy."
"...he was one of those people who didn't require other people in order to have a conversation."
"The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time."
"It was as much of a gift to receive as it was to give, requiring as it did both courage and humility."
"He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition."
"...if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is."
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