60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday: Don’t You Want to Know What Happens Next?

<p>Hello to you listening in <a href="https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/town-to-town-day-trip-from-moelv-to-brumunddal/218204/" target="_blank">Moelv, Norway</a>!</p><p>Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga.</p><p>The Witch of Whidbey is a voracious reader. So many books, so little time. Here’s one summary of a recently read novel: <i>On Memorial Day 1958 in small town Jewel, Minnesota, the body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. The investigation falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service</i>.</p><p>The summary is innocuous enough; but what will make <a href="https://www.amazon.com/River-We-Remember-Novel/dp/198217921X" target="_blank">The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger</a> a spell-binding page-turner? It’s the Set-up! </p><p><strong>Page 1</strong>: There's a river; it's in Minnesota; it starts here; flows this way and that; people swim and fish in the river; the river has many fish such as this one and that one; and the channel catfish, bottom-dwelling, mud-sucking, ugly, voracious. <strong>Last line</strong>: “<i>And this is the story about how the channel cats ate Jimmy Quinn</i>.”</p><p>Don't you want to know .... what happens next?</p><p>A story is how "<i>what happens next"</i> affects someone who is trying to achieve what turns out to be a difficult goal, and how she changes as a result.</p><p><strong>Question</strong>: Which books and opening lines do you remember because you wanted to know, <i>what happens next</i>? How do your choices reveal aspects of your own story? Email me at info@quartermoonstoryarts.net to share your discoveries.</p><p><strong>You’re always invited</strong>: “<i>Come for the stories - stay for the magic</i>!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe, share a 5-star rating + nice review on your social m