Status Updates From A Patient Man

3.5*

- I liked the story, and it's written really very well, you get invested in (caring) what happens to the family.

-I wanted the story to unravel for decades, with unique destruction of each, the old man (Mr. Freeman) to live to see it (as opposed to what the title really means). Also, it wud have been cool if actual criminal turned out to be non-family.....I don't know. Thinking out loud. Loved the story.

Memorable Lines (Spoiler Alert):

- “Funny thing, life,” he chuckled. “It’s never what we think it is going to be, is it?”

- To forgive is to set a prisoner free and to discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes

Memorable Lines: (Spoiler Alert):

- Some way in the distance, way way in the distance where the last vestiges of dry land were lapped by the receding tide was a small red dot that grew ever duller against the grey of the sun, then brightened briefly under a stray ray of the sinking sun, then darkened again and disappeared.

pg 132 of 147: I think it's dawning on me that this book will never reach the boy's adulthood. Whatever has to happen, the story author is telling, will happen during childhood.

- “There you are Mikey, where ‘ave you been ‘idin’? I wa about to go.” (crueler words were never spoken)

on pg. 74 of 147: loving it so far.