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        1. November 9, BooksSherry.
        2. Robert J. Wiersema, the best-selling author of the novels Before I Wake and Bedtime Story, has a special treat in store for readers.
        3. Where did that passion go?
        4. Wiersema is a writer, reviewer and bookseller.

          5. Robert J. Wiersema, the best-selling author of the novels Before I Wake and Bedtime Story, has a special treat in store for readers....

          Before I Wake

          March 20, 2011
          “And what have you done?”

          “Many things, Henry,” he said.

          “Time is long and old men forget…”

          “That’s not an answer.”

          “No, it’s Shakespeare.”

          ***

          My introduction to Wiersema’s work came earlier this year when, after being introduced to the CZP catalogue, I found a copy of The World More Full of Weeping at my local White Rock Indigo.

          A mildly traumatic story about a boy lost in the woods behind his home in much the same way that his father had gotten lost in them many years earlier, The World More Full of Weeping is a sucker punch of a novella: it strikes unexpectedly, and over the course of a mere 70 or so pages, leaves you breathless and distraught.

          Now with his latest book, Bedtime Stories, on the market (which I hope to have a chance to read in the next few weeks), I wanted to go back and see where Wiersema’s career as a writer began.

          First published back in 2006, Before I Wake tells the story of Sherry Barrett and the single moment in time that