This was a book club book that I actually picked, though that was before I realized it was 850 pages. So I started it a week before I usually start my book club books, and it was a good thing I did because I barely finished it in time, and that was taking every opportunity I could to listen to the audio!

My thoughts, just in bullet points:
- I liked the narrator. At first I didn't, but he grew on me and did a fun accent for everybody (except I didn't love his Georgian accent for Sadie). I liked most of the narration, and if it occasionally was a bit tired/slow I think that was a little more the actual writing than the narrator.
- I think this is my third Stephen King book, and while I enjoyed it, there were definitely times when I felt like it dragged and could have been edited down further.
- When Sadie is killed and Jake thinks that he'll just go back and do the whole thing over, I just felt so... there were a bunch of emotions in rapid succession: !!! at Sadie's death, then disbelief in what Jake said, then relief, despair at the idea of reading ANY amount of re-doing, hesitant understanding, wariness. That was just a great moment for me as a reader because I love any and all moments when I'm reading and have to pause in the reading to have emotions. (I guess I love it less when those emotions are anger/moral outrage.)
- Even though this was a long book and covered a long passage of time in detail (just over 5 years), I had mixed feelings when it was finished. I was glad I'd finished but also the next few days I was in a "book hangover" where I missed the experiencing of the story and characters.
- The sort of "paranormal" element was cool because I love time travel stories, and the idea of there being these guys who sort of guarded/maintained the timelines was really cool. I would have loved to know more about them, actually. Like who they were, what was this 'training' that Kyle mentioned, how the different 'strings' exist, can they see them, how many other 'bubbles' are there, why and how did this one come about, why did it not pop when the future was changed??? So many cool topics for thought!

- The book club meeting was fine, we didn't talk a ton about the book, but did speak a little regarding going to the past, changing the past. I was hoping there'd be more discussion considering everyone else in the club was alive and adult in 1963, but oh well.