An Unfinished Life

Author: Mark Spragg
Date Finished: 1/8/06

Insomnia struck and I woke up at 3:30 with little hope of sleeping again. I looked over my shelf of TBRs* and found this short novel my father-in-law had given me. So I made a cup of tea and curled up on the couch and visited rural Wyoming for a couple of hours.

This was a pretty good read. It was quick and satisfying and had a happy ending. Unfortunately, I was reading the version with the movie poster on the cover and the character of Mitch sounded an awful lot like Morgan Freeman in my head, making parts of the story a little annoying. The Robert Redford and JLo characters weren't as strongly present in my personal movie, but still intruded from time to time. Spragg wrote the screenplay for the movie, and the novel seems like he wrote it with a movie in mind. The scenes are easily visualized and the characters are made for a movie.

Overall, a fun read for a sleepless night. I would give Spragg another look.

*To Be Read