Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose-allow smells Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being.
Eat some type of ethnic food you’ve never even Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. And with my mind only, I’ll say - or think? - to the target, 'Don’t do it. (Aug.“The whole time I pretend I have mental telepathy.
Agent: Douglas Stewart, Sterling Lord Literistic.
Through Leonard, Quick urges readers to look beyond the pain of the here and now to the possibilities that await. Its greatest irony is that, despite Leonard’s commitment to his murder-suicide plan, he appreciates and values life in a way that few do. Quick’s attentiveness to these few key relationships and encounters gives the story its strength and razorlike focus. First, though, he will visit the important people in his life: an elderly cinephile neighbor, a musically gifted classmate, the teacher of his Holocaust studies class, and a homeschooled girl who passes out religious tracts in the train station. Foreseeing only more unhappiness and disappointment in life (and harboring a secret that’s destroying him), Leonard packs up his grandfather’s WWII handgun and heads to school, intending to kill his former best friend and then himself. Leonard Peacock is another such individual, a teenager who feels let down by adults and out of step with his sheeplike classmates. Quick’s books typically revolve around characters who don’t fit in, don’t understand their place in the world, and face daunting obstacles.
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