The Loop

Lyman works nights, driving around and around the Loop that circles Ft. Worth, assisting drivers with stalled cars, removing suitcases and furniture and other things fallen from a moving car, burying dead animals that wandered into the path of cars. As a hobby, he takes college classes, classes of a......more

I added this to my TBR list back in Dec 07. I couldnt find it in any store I shopped at. When I finally found it sitting on the shelf at a library sale back in January, and almost squealed for joy. Then, for whatever reason, once I brought it home, it wasn't calling out to me to be read just then. I......more

Time and chance gives us meaning in the now and to see meaning beyond that only obfuscates us from our authentic selves. Fiona will tell Lyman that twice. The book of Ecclesiastes has that as a theme and this book has Ecclesiastes and that as a theme. The parrot that Lyman has is not the meaning bes......more

This book does so much with so little-only two main characters plus one parrot. It digs deep rather than wide. Lyman is an orphan whose parents died, anonymously, on the highway where he was found as baby, and now he drives around it each night as a road attendant, helping stranded motorists and bur......more