BookCrossing: Rock Springs

I released two books on Main Street during Vancouver's Car Free Day and one of them - Rock Springs by Richard Ford - received a journal entry two days later by a new member. My catch rate now squats at 12.36%. Here's the journal entry:

A lovely little find at car free day on Main Street. I'll be sure to pass on the gift. Only a couple pages in, but so far so good.

Here's a link to Rock Springs on BookCrossing.

Rock Springs by Richard Ford

A good collection of stories, but I would've liked more variety of setting and pace. Huh, I just realized that with a collection entitled Rock Springs, I shouldn't be expecting the setting to change much. Good stories with good thoughts. The first few stories absorbed me the most, and "Communist" was a good closer.

Rock Springs on BookCrossing.

lose the reasons for it

Though he had begun to wonder, after a certain period of not working, if you couldn't simply forget how to work, forget the particulars, lose the reasons for it. And once that happened, it could become possible never to hold another job as long as you lived. To become a statistic: the chronically unemployed. The thought worried him.

-- "Fireworks" in Rock Springs by Richard Ford

an idea that stops existing

"He didn't say that," I said. But I'd said it enough, and I didn't care if she believed me or didn't. It was true that trust was not a big issue between us then. And in any event, I know now that the whole truth of anything is an idea that stops existing finally.

-- "Great Falls" in Rock Springs by Richard Ford