"Waiting On" Wednesday: 11/23/63 by Stephen King

Hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine

Waiting on Wednesday is a bookish meme where we tell everyone what upcoming releases we are waiting on!

Title: 11/22/63
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner
Expected Release Date: November 8, 2011

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas,
President Kennedy died, and the world changed.


If you had the chance to change history, would you?
Would the consequences be worth it?


Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.


Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.

-Synopisis from Goodreads

You can't tell me this doesn't sound awesome! Time travel, political scandals, it's got all the ingredients for a great book. I can't wait to read it!

What are you waiting for?