Awaiting a movie of this !!!!!! This book should be on every goodreads listopia list in the romance category. It transcends the genre of gay vs straight romance. Being a fan of TJ's previous books when I saw that it was in an anthology, I almost past it by because I like involved stories and so many anthologies are not very involved.WELL talk about involved. This book is going to involve you. Strap on your "I never cry over books" big girl panties, but be warned even those will not save you !! I kept thinking about how visual this book is and I kept thinking THIS BOOK SHOULD BE A MOVIE !!!From the minute these boys meet at 12 I could see them literally in my head. I do wish it had been a novel and we could had shared more of their lives. They would have been just old enough to have missed the Vietnam draft but young enough to have had experienced the 60's and been affected by that era. To TJ KLUNE: Please submit this as a draft for a movie script with more parts of their lives in the story. It has been almost 9 years since "Brokeback Mountain " was released and accepted by the entire movie audience. The US movie audiences are ready for this. If you want your heart strings pulled, you've come to the right place with John & Jackie. Once again, TJ Klune doesn't disappoint.This is a story about meeting the love of your life early on, then becoming one another's entire world. But as lives go, they always end at some point -- even if that's after someone owning your heart for 71 very happy years.At 83, due to the constant, intense pain caused by John's terminal, inoperable cancer, he asks Jackie to once again be there for him when he needs him the most. Jackie isn't happy with the decision, but understands and can't allow John to linger in so much pain indefinitely.This sets the stage for the last two hours of John's life, as they tell one another things that they feel need to be said before they no longer can.During these two hours, they relive five memories from their first 18 years together, all of which are defining moments in who 'John & Jackie' are together, which I found extremely touching.I'd hoped that John & Jackie's story would end the way that it actually did, so I wasn't overly shocked when it happened, but I got what I was hoping for, so who could be disappointed by that? Not me. : )If the book left me wanting, it was only for *more*, but TJ's books always leave me in that state. They're just that good, so I truly hate to reach the end.Suggestion: Read this one in *one* sitting, if at all possible. I couldn't, but wish that I had.
What do You think about John & Jackie (2014)?
OMG ..I don't have any more tears left. Outstanding!!!
—ladyslovin
Could someone please hand me a box of hankies? :'(
—AdlaQueiroz
