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Oh, the puns! I’m listening to this audiobook, narrated by Rainn Wilson, but also reading some. The author mentioned the illustrations in his forward, so I picked up the book at the library and am admiring the drawings.

I think I found a mistake. In ch 9, Louisa Lane Drew is listed as knowing John Wilkes Booth. She is the grandma of Lionel, Ethel, & John Barrymore & listed as the great grandma of Drew Barrymore. But Drew‘s father was also named John & was the son of the John listed above. So Louisa is Drew‘s great great grandmother.

Still, it’s an interesting connection between John Wilkes Booth & the Barrymore family.

I don’t think this conversation would’ve happened in“real life”. Most people stick with your friends and opinion in junior high. Stephanie probably wouldn’t have come to talk to Elizabeth.

I don’t think they came to the right conclusion of how to talk to Maddie about her behavior. Personally, I think it would have been better if the author had both girls talk to Maddie together.

I know who did it!!!

What a sermon!

I’m amazed how blasé and completely inappropriately Officer Doyle gives out confidential police info to, not only a minor, but the general public.

Frank does a lot of eavesdropping 😊

Ch. 52. Oh, the reveals!! Oh, the horror!!

2 quotes:

p. 298 “ it was as though we meant nothing to each other now. I couldn’t help but think of a quote from Persuasion (by Jane Austen): ‘now they were strangers; Nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.’ ”

p. 300 “ buying gifts was never exactly a forte of mine.… So I stuck two books as a rule. You couldn’t go wrong with the book.”

Excellent narrator (of course)

As always, the author gives great insight and his nonfiction reads so well

end of Part six. Will start Ch 50 in the audio book. This book is supposed to be about joy. Well I just read the most tragic part. Sucks that I have to wait to hopefully see some joy again for this family.

The title is finally used on this page “the covenant of water”

Love the line “written” by Philipose
“ a woman with unconventional beauty raises the hope that the viewer might be the only one to see it, that in recognizing and appreciating it, he alone has created her beauty.”

The skin graft treatment in Ch. 32 was incredible!

Can’t wait to see how the 3 stories merge. Hope it’s soon.

Classic response to the question “mighty we stay here a bit?” (page 141) “Of course! I have my book”.

There’s a discrepancy here. It has the points switched for Melanie and Andre from what they were listed on p. 178

Love the quote from Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy. I thought it was from Willy Wonka but he must’ve been quoting the poem too. 😊

Interesting to see how he was held in prison for so long without a lawyer or contact with his family. Isn’t that coercion? It’s in Switzerland so obviously their law there is different than in the US, I hope.

I feel like the sister is somehow involved in the break up
Idon’t know how they haven’t figure out who Teddy was, they gave his first & middle name & said it was the same as his dad. They were high society. Should easy to find.
I don’t think the guy is Steve Schwab. They said he didn’t have any big literary credits to his name & Hemi says that he wrote some books about the war that were well received.

I like the concept that the Sabbath is a resistance to the “Pharoah” way of life (more,more,gimme more) that turns slave owners into slaves themselves

So many gold nuggets…

I wonder why Rory feels that she has to tell Soline everything. Why can’t she just tell her about the child and leave out the part about Anson? I guess maybe she’s worried that if it does come to light, and they hadn’t told her that Soline will be mad that they withheld that from her.