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Big reading time at the Big O Tires

I like the journal and interview entries, but I am not a fan of the third person main story.

I’ve already read the first half, so I started mostly done

Yes I’ve cried, and???

“After twenty opening-day deaths, we’re rewarded with a lull in bloodshed. Our performance has been satisfactory.”

“Tear-soaked, blood-soaked, misery-soaked, I lay on my side and curl myself around the base of the tree trunk.”

“spiky holiday hallucination”

“The hovercraft approaches, a vulture hungry for the remains of our allies.”

“rare and radiant”

“[The] domed ceiling frames a piece of the evening sky.”

“I’ve only ever been in an automobile a handful of times. . . Never when I couldn’t see out. Never when I was being taken to die. No light, no air. Like they buried me already.”

“I attempt to rouse her, try to find her pulse, but she has flown her body.“

The alpha talk and the scoring of the book-worthy kisses is really sickening too.

A few notes:

The panties thing is getting real old.

The fact that Glenn told him where they’d be because Ben’s funny is a great line.

“He would have had to have been following me.” What a poorly constructed sentence. I had to completely stop, say it out loud a couple of times, and ask Mason if that actually makes sense or not.

“We don’t tend to let bodies ripen in the heat.”

Well, if Colleen Hoover is good at anything, she can sure as hell get me out of a reading slump

I just need a stupid summer romance book, and then I’ll read the other stuff

(I had to chop up these updates because of character limit, but this is regarding that last quote.)

I really like that this dialogue comes from a conversation between a woman seeking answers and a Mother Superior. I think it’s a sign of a good church leader when they can recognize the limits of faith and the realities of the world.

“‘I know the hardships are just beginning. You must stay strong.’ ‘By believing in God.’ ‘Yes, of course, but not only by believing in God. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I’m afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get ready, Vianne. This is only your first test. Learn from it.’”

I just have not been in a historical fiction mood. The book is good, just hard to want to make time for it.

“Automobiles were no better than walking anymore—the few that were still running were moving only at the whim of the people around them; like flotsam in the reeds of a muddy river.”

“Had she learned nothing in life? People left. She knew that. They especially left her.”

So far, so good

“The stairs unfold from the ceiling like a gentleman extending his hand.”

“The street was a living, breathing dragon of humanity, inching forward, wheezing dirt, honking horns”

“Hunger walked beside her, poking her insistently with its sharp little elbow, but what could she do about it?”

“. . .I had followed him into his lake of blood and I would be sorry for it all my days.”

“My skin felt shot through with power, like the sky before a storm.“

“Oh, Father, it was not our fault. Punish them. As if he had ever needed urging. Helios and his endless wrath.“

“I could see it: the smoky fire and the tang of old bronze, the must of pressed olives. And Odysseus, expertly wrapping his son with shame.”

“I stood there a long time, a bolt-struck the scorched to its roots.”

“So easily those spells had risen in my mind, the ones that wild let me cut his desires from him, like paring rot from fruit.”

“Beneath the bare branches we grieved together, for the man I had known, and the man he had not.“

“The branches tilted around me.“

She’s really giving in to the haggard old witch stereotypes now, c’mon Circe

Very cool story so far, and great writing.

“the grudges of the gods are as deathless as their flesh”

“The feathers of the bed murmured against each other”

“He stood up — I will not say gracefully, for he was too solidly built for that — but easily, like a door swinging on a well-fitted hinge.”