Status Updates From The Sixteen Burdens

"When Gavrilo gave him Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche, he read them." I am SO, SO DONE with this book.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone laugh and cry in the same breath,” he said. Elsie wiped the tears away. “Yes, well, you’re not a woman.” *deep sigh* Shit like this makes me SO TIRED.

--p. 82: Technical gaffe/anachronism; true paramedics didn't come into being until circa 1970. Prior to this, ambulance attendees were employees of the police department and were only trained in First Aid, not the more advanced medical training that true modern-day paramedics (and EMTs) receive.

p. 33: "But Beauregard was no normal person. She was an actress." Haha, classic!

"He was the Southern
California sky, vast and empty. He was the Los Angeles
River, rough and devoid of life. He was a Studebaker, his
insides wrapped in steel, speeding down an asphalt
boulevard, never stopping for anything or anyone." This author sure has a way wioth metaphors.

Oh I'm loving this!!! Why didn't I read it before?

Mmmm, bear meat, sounds deelish.....

Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard's granddaughter?