On the Way to Other Country ~C.W. Gusewelle

–published 2001
–Kansas City Star Books
–355 pages
–9/10

I doubt that there are many people alive who have not been overtaken, on certain gray days of the spirit, by a sense of the futility of words.

~C.W. Gusewelle

The steady blinking of the cursor on open white space is keeping perfect rhythm with the steady beat in my head–“I don’t know what to write. I don’t know what to write.”… C.W. Gusewelle is ever so right. On some days it feels like an exercise in futility to put fingers to keyboard in order to get the words out. I don’t make it a habit of reviewing everything I read. My intentions are good, but there are days when I am weighed down with too much to do and others in which I cannot drum up enough inspiration to do a book review justice (either for good or ill) regardless of my feelings after closing that final page. Yet there are some books that just cry out to be reviewed, especially a decade after they are published when they are perhaps more forgotten than they should be. On the Way to Other Country is one such book and so I will press on, endeavoring to inject my words with some of the emotions sparked by reading this book, both to myself and at times aloud to my wife and child.

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