It's over....?!

This is the 2nd time I've read Diana Gabaldon's OUTLANDER.  (Yes, I do consider it reading to listen to a book on CD.)  I found that I actually enjoyed listening to it on CD as I drove to and from work in my car.  I couldn't wait each day to get in my car just so I could listen to more!

Even though I'd read this book before, reading it again was like reading it for the first time.  There were a lot of details that I easily remembered from the first reading, but I forgot a lot of details, too.

The one thing that surprised me the most about this reading was the ending.  In my head, I remember the story ending with Claire having to go back to her own time--and to Frank.  But OUTLANDER doesn't end that way at all!  When I got to the last CD, I kept wondering how Gabaldon was going to get Jamie and Claire from France to Scotland quickly--considering how long it had taken them to get from one place to another throughout the rest of the book, I thought it was odd.

And the CD kept going from one track to the next, but Jamie and Claire were still in France with no possibility of being back in Scotland any time soon.

We got to one of the parts of the book that I remembered very well from my first reading (it was my favorite part) and all of a sudden, this guy came on and said "This ends the book OUTLANDER....."

What?!  I thought.......well, I guess I'm going to have to get the CD for the 2nd book and find out how much of that book I tried to put into the first book....!  It'll just have to wait until I get back from Disney.

At least I have something to look forward to after my trip....!!!!!  

:)