Status Updates From The Nix

Audiobookin

This is pretty, pretty good.

addicted to Laura's giant run-on sentence

"Samuel thinks about Bethany the way other people maybe think about God. As in: How is God judging me?....And sometimes, if he thinks about this too much, he can fall down a kind of hole and it's like he's experiencing his life at a one-step remove, as if he's not leading his life but rather assessing and appraising a life that weirdly, unfortunately, happens to be his."

"Without her explanation, the narrative of the day forms when opinion and assumption combine with a few facts to create an ur-story that hardens in people's minds...However, this inconsistency is lost in the more sensational news items and is never fully investigated."