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I am really enjoying this 🙂

I have never watched much of her stuff before, but now I know- I love Mindy Kaling! :)

This book is making me try to say British phrases, and then fail. I forgot something upstairs the other day, started to say bugger, but then somehow turned that into booger because bugger isn't familiar on my tongue. Oh, booger.

"I’ve heard other women say that as soon as you tell a man what happened to you, as soon as you use the word rape, the men back away. As though we’re damaged goods. Men don’t want to hear about it. They prefer silence to confession. But the silence spreads. It takes over, until you can’t talk about anything at all. All of life becomes a taboo subject.”

"In most published stories, adoptees still aren’t the adults, the ones with power or agency or desires that matter—we’re the babies in the orphanage; we’re the kids who don’t quite fit in; we are struggling souls our adoptive families fought for, objects of hope, symbols of tantalizing potential and parental magnanimity and wishes fulfilled. We are wanted, found, or saved, but never grown, never entirely our own. "

“Has your man even held a hoe before?” Bishop asked. Stoyan grimaced. “Not that kind.”

“I never knew my pa— he died when I was two. I never really lived anywhere but Montana. Probably on account of my head being so far up my ass.”
-the most perfect quote in this thing so far. XD

Cannot. Resist.
"love does not look like a person
"love is our actions"

I am really liking this so far. The only thing that could've been changed to make this more Montana ish is "public library" could've been "Parmly (sp?) Library" which was the name for the old library in Billings that is now the Western Heritage Center.

Currently reading the chapters available here: https://www.tor.com/series/oathbringer/
The 14th isn't that far away, though I may not have my book by then. These should satisfy my SA needs until then.

I wish I could say I'm enjoying this book, but it's a bit like having a distant cousin you like spending a day explaining their travels, instead of just half an hour of sharing the highlights.

It took me 86 pages, but I just realized the cover of this one has the twin towers on it. I guess this is an alternate history futuristic New York City.

If you begin, you must keep on beginning; that's the truth. No rest for the wicked.
~Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatchers

I never bothered to look up the song Saiman used as a soundtrack to Curran's antics the first time I read this, but now I know it's "Kiss From a Rose" by Seal. Perfection.

I hereby declare 2017 to be the year of the comfort reread!

I didn't think this book would irritate me, but it's currently doing just that. O_o

"A door flopped open, wobbling perilously on its one remaining hinge, and there emerged from the car a pair of the sort of legs which sound-track editors are unable to see without needing to slap a smoky saxophone solo all over, for reasons which no one besides sound-track editors has ever been able to understand."

I thought I'd have to quit reading this because Mr. Cumming's father bore striking resemblances to mine, but it is much too interesting to put down. As a lover of genealogy shows, I'm also intrigued by that aspect of the story.