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"How you die should be up to you. How you live is usually upto everyone else"

The best part of this book so far is the level of details that go within these short stories. Each story gives a complete and total picture of the incident, with the readers feeling like they have been reading a series and knows the complete picture. The authors have beautifully crafted these stories in a very engaging manner. I am 21% into the book and every single story so far has been flawless and mesmerizing.

So far, the book is a pull. I am unable to stop listening. One thing I wish there was a character list. It's slightly confusing when the chapter starts with a name. But maybe I'll get used to it soon.
Zoey, Aisha, and Myra are really interesting to learn more about

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In one of the stories, Penny is helping a regular customer who has lost his sight, to see the world in his dreams

Wtf am I reading
Hannibal Watson?
Why so many points to explain things? I feel like I'm reading a work email where I am being shouted at
Too perfect a husband. I mean it's not that it's not possible but this description is not going well with the story
Dad's ghost is still not accepted
Dad's an ex police detective but he doesn't have a whole lot of useful suggestions for someone who had been apparently very good

What i really like about this series is that even those kids who are not choosing to be in the race are also appreciated and not ridiculed either by the other kids or adults for being different. Sierra always chooses books over the adventure and she's appreciated for her choice all the time, not because it's making sense to others but because it's what makes her happy

Oh no!!!!!!! The book is over

Nope. Made a mistake. Ocean is extremely busy with her kids, but would do anything for Mrs. B. Lily-Ann is Anthony's sort of friend, also dealing with her ex husband, but just so awesome in her own skin.

I think I want this story to NEVER EVER END!!!!
Jo Nichols, you have created a wonder!! I can't wait for a sequel. Please have a sequel

Hamilton - an eccentric loner but loves his neighbors and would do anything to protect them, in his own weird way
Sophie - over-anxious creative writer, a sort of damsel in distress, who is unknowingly bringing everyone together through an attempt to safeguard her
Nicolas - a mystery for everyone, but grows to like Sophie

OMG the characters! Mrs. B - the extremely nosey landlady who's in everyone's business but who genuinely means well
Ocean - has two kids, is Queer and so so so adorable, and is Anthony's only friend apart from Mrs. B right now
Anthony - think biker dude with a heart of gold, no purer than gold. I totally love him

OMG this is the author's first book!!!

Completely hooked. i went into this book thinking I will listen to the audiobook for some time and then switch to writing, but now I am not able to stop listening.

"You know what they say about libraries?
That they have something for every chapter of your life"

This is when the body finally drops!!

One problem I have with this book - I am at 50% of the story and the body hasn't dropped yet. I mean, the body drops in chapter 1 and then it's the backstory, but 50% of backstory? Chapter 17 out of 30 chapters? a bit too much wait, I'd say

I know my dad isn’t Santa Claus. But sometimes I wonder.

Vicki Delany. O Deadly Night (Kindle Locations 2074-2075). Kindle Edition.

This book is different from the other Year-Round Christmas mysteries.In this one, Merry is not directly involved in the mystery, which feels like a vacation compared to the other books where she's heads-on into the mystery

Absolutely love how Dt. Diane Simmonds treat Matterhorn and how Mattie just dissolves under her attention.

I love the way catehrine talks to us during the book like she's with us while reading. Also absoluly love the footnotes. Like a best friend is sharing stories and insights

"I wonder if Sebastian Bell would approve of this man that I have become, or even if we would get along?"
Love this line. Puts things in perspective on if you were to meet yourself, would you like yourself?

The pain Lisavet feels while erasing Ernest's memory is so physical, it coming straight out of the book to hit your heart

Very engaging first two chapters. The premise is set and now we go back in time to figure things out

Too many repetitions of "an observer would note"

Why is there so much mention of sex and horniness? It feels misplaced and doesn't get along well with the story.
Also the chemistry between the three "supposedly" best friends is so awful.
I am not sure i will finish this book

Robert Bringhurst - the elements of typographic style

"Isolated lines created when paragraphs begin on the last line of the page are known are "Orphans". They have no past but they do have a future and they need not trouble the typographer. The stub ends left when paragraphs end on the first line of a page are called Widows. They have a past but not a future, and they look foreshortened and forlone.
Robert Bringerst - the elements of typographic style

The end is equally dissatisfying and unrealistic. <spoiler> how could she not have recognized her old companions? Those guests had been living with her under the same roof for more than 3 weeks and she never recognized them to be her old colleagues</spoiler>