Yeah, I know. It’s been a while. Cut me some slack, huh?

HEHE, anyway, the reason for my renewed interest in blogging is because I have to tell you about “Shutter Island” by Dennis Lehane. Holy crap, this book is awesome.

I heard that a movie based on this book is coming out in February. Leonardo Dicaprio is in it, and that means Neal will want to see it (he’s got a a man crush on Leo, I think), and so I wanted to read the book first. After getting it at the store, I also realized it’s written by the same guy who wrote “Mystic River,” which is also an amazing book.

Anyway, this book rocked my socks off. I read it in two days because I couldn’t put it down. Quick summary – these two U.S. Marshalls are on this island off the New England coast which houses a hospital for the criminally insane. It’s set in the 50’s. Anyway, the U.S. Marshalls are there to investigate the breakout of a patient who drowned her three children. They start their investigation and shit gets really weird really fast. Oh man. I loved this book. I kept thinking I had the twists figured out, and then I was wrong!

I couldn’t sleep Sunday night, because I kept having these horrible thoughts that these doctors were going to drag me away to the madhouse and drill into my brain.

Anyway, here’s the trailer with Neal’s boyfriend Leo. It looks freaky, and if it’s HALF as good as the book, it’ll be awesome.