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This book is so good

My next reads:
The shining
Doctor sleep
The house in the gerulean sea
The blue hour Paula Hawkins

It was slow at first so I had to use an audiobook to follow along and keep me going. I turned it off and started reading on my own because the story got good.

My heart 💔

Gus hurried around the front of the car and installed himself in the shotgun seat. The doors closed, and I roared off, driving for several hundred feet before I realized I was headed down a dead-end street. I circled the cul-de-sac and raced back past Monica's house.
I never took another picture of him. Also!!! What in the world is that last sign supposed to mean?!?!?!?! I mean I know what it means but no!!!🥲

“See, Isaac, if you just take-we're coming to the curb now-the feeling of legitimacy away from them, if you turn it around so they feel like they are committing a crime by watching-a few more steps-their cars get egged, they'll be confused and scared and worried and they'll just return to their-you'll find the door handle directly in front of you quietly desperate lives."

“Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "your daughter's car has just been deservedly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police." After wavering for a moment, Monica's mom closed the door and disappeared. Isaac threw the last three eggs in quick succession and Gus then guided him back toward the car.

Page 229 is absolutely hilarious! I love it. So much is happening and it’s so chaotic and the way he’s giving a whole speech but keeps pausing to let him know where he’s at is absolute perfection!
“And behind that, a door is opening.
"What," asked the middle-aged woman a moment after I'd snapped the picture, "in God's name-" and then she stopped talking.