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I might finally have earned the right to hope again.

“The good Lord does not call you to your feet with hymns from the cherubim, and Gabriel blowing his horn. He calls you to your feet by making you feel alone and forgotten. For only when you have seen that you are truly forsaken will you embrace the fact that what happens next rest in your hands, and your hands alone.”
Wow - another really strong book!

I’m enjoying this one. Which I admit is surprising me.

Said Sally “time is that which God uses to separate the idol from the industrious“… Oh Sally I think you’re missing the point here.

That was what policing a small town felt like some days….. just a janitor tasked with picking up the pieces of someone’s broken life

“The grapevine in Charon county was as invasive as kudzu.”
And
“ the bottom three buttons of his shirt were performing a labor of Hercules as they kept his belly from spilling out.”
Love Cosby’s use of words.

This one is gonna be a tough one. But I like Cosby’s writing style and I’m enjoying his use of colloquialisms.

“From a Himmel Street window, the stars set fire to my eyes”
This book - not an easy one or a fast one - but wow! Such a great one!

“I want to show you every good thing I’ve ever found”
I love that! Beautiful words from this author!

“ the night is young, and you’re out with a bad girl.”
Haha— sounding like a fun night ahead.

I’ve already added 5 books to my Want to Read list just based on what Sybil and Rosalie are reading or have read.
The letter that Sybil wrote to Diana Gabaldon - the author got a chuckle out of me with that one.

And here I sit - fat, dumb and happy and bam!

Only at chapter 4 and I already adore Theo, “an exquisitely handsome 86 year old man “ 😍

This is a true story. The writing style is awkward and the tale outlandish in the “no way anyone fell for that kind of way.” She states how the tale developed when she wrote “ one of the things I seem to intuitively know was to allow people to convince themselves. Hold back and they will fill in what most appeal to them.”

“There is nothing more glorious in all the world than a moment of silence in which to read those final satisfying pages of a good book.”
I definitely agree with the author on that one.

If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
Wow -love the way this author uses words.

“His touchstone, his anchor to every good thing.”
Loving this book! It is a long one but every single page is worth it.

We’ll exist at the extremes because the middle is where the healthy pass their time”
Love Whitaker’s writing!

I read this back in August 2000. I saw the book again and didn’t remember a lot of it so decided to read it again. Glad I did. Coz wow that Etta, what a nasty woman!

Wow- this storyline has grabbed me!

Laugh out loud funny. And oddly thought provoking.

So many adjectives ! interesting, sad, appalling and even funny at times.

Just so you know - the cover picture on the book I’m reading and the picture that Goodreads is featuring are totally different!
This actually has a lot of intrigue.

It is a toss up between Eek, OMG and oh no she didn’t!