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“The mere passage of time does not constitute a medical emergency.”
Amen and say this 3x louder for the people in the back👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This is my first Gillian McAllister book and it’s just plain boring…truly a chore to get through.

Ah chapter 27. This is why we love Eddie!👏🏻

This has one of the best first pages of a book I’ve ever read!

Disclaimer for my incoming rating: this 4 is a strong 4.75⭐️ I can’t put my finger on exactly why it’s not a 5 for me. Those are typically gut feelings I have and trust and reserve for the most impactful of books for various reasons. Miracle Creek comes veryyyy very close, so I had to distinguish this from my 4 star ratings that are firmly 4 stars. Goodreads, please pretty please give us half stars!

I actually can’t fathom how there’s another 30% of the book left. It’s just going to be more of the same

If this wasn’t a book club read, would immediately be a DNF

This book is sickening…

“They ask if I feel bad about beating him. I say, ‘I would never want to deprive anybody of the learning experience of losing.’”

“No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.”

“You know everything you need to know about people when you see their faces at the moments of your greatest triumph.””

“Don’t hope he double faults. Don’t hope he misses. You control what you can control.”

“The tennis bag is a lot like your heart. You have to know what’s in it at all times.”

“No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players”

“Every match is a life in miniature”

The ending is just daring me to knock it down to 1 star

This is so dumb…

Okay this is too much Shakespeare😳 I feel like I’m back in Ms. Penick’s English class…

Oh my goodness a ROUGH chapter to be a boy mom

And this is why you don’t share baby names with people. They may hate the name but are they really going to hate a newborn baby when they see it and have that name associated with them?

“You know I despite the notion of Texas with every atom in my being. A hot, barren wasteland of tumbleweed and people carrying guns and wearing cowboy boots.”

Well, I NEVER. The nerve of Evans to talk about God’s country that way…

Why do politics need to be in this book? Authors, please keep your personal politics out of fiction books.

Oh my goodness they’re playing mahjong🤣 how fitting for the moment haha, I love it

Giggling because this scene reminds me of Hermione going into Gringotts disguised as Bellatrix🤭

Chapters 6&7 should be required reading for all parents of kids who play sports. As a parent, your behavior at your kid’s sporting events is incredibly impactful, positive or negative. You have to model the type of behavior you want out of your child. Also, the car ride home can, in many cases, be more important than the game/match. Use that as a chance to support your child, not overwhelm them.

“Don’t prop yourself up as the sage on the stage. Instead quietly guide from the side.”

“When pressure overtakes curiosity, fear sets in and the athlete eventually implodes. Either a: the subliminal pressure gets too great and he opts out altogether or b: the fear of disappointing the only true opinion that seems to matter, their parents’, becomes too much to bear and quitting feels safer than navigating the unknown”

“Have enough faith in them to let them fail”

“The voice that will resonate most deeply with them will be yours, for better or for worse”

Why does this have so many similarities to The Last Time We Saw Her by Jaclyn Goldis?? Getting déjà vu here!