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Loving it

Glad I read it, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

A real page turner. I’m torn between reading quickly to finish it up, satisfy my need to know what happens and not reading it so it will last longer and I can savor the language, the plot and the lives of these unforgettable characters

A timely read. The language and writing style was an added treat. I enjoyed the poetic license in his interpretation of Underground Railroad.
Glad I read this book. It had been on my “to read” list a long time.

I really liked this book: a timely subject (unfortunately), a fast paced plot, well written It’s an interesting story of characters living in an upper class life, a few with feelings of inadequacy of not really belonging in that intellectual, financial world, yet all friends since college (uni) days. It’s a murder mystery yet a study of modern, contemporary life.

Interesting.

Oh my! What a read. This book will stay with me for awhile. Hard to stop thinking about it.

I am loving this book. It feels very authentic to me and very relatable. It reads more like an essay in a magazine than a novel. The setting is familiar to me and having taught teenagers for many years, the family
relationships are also familiar to me. I cannot wait to see how Yoerg resolves the plot twists.

We could not control our enemies number straightener with them right sometimes you just got a bad one. But whether you thought or reason, you did it together, because that is the part that was in our control. But we must never do it was willingly handover our own bodies on the bodies of my friends. That was the wisdom. ..

..."she brought the blunt to her plum painted lips, pulled, exhaled, then pulled the smoke back in. Week earlier I had kissed her, and now, watching this display of smoke (and flames and already feeling the effects), I was lost and running and wondering what it must be to embrace her, to be exhaled by her, return to her, and leave her high ."

Didn't finish and doubt I will. The world today is frightening enough that I did not need to read and bring into my brain more dystopian ideas.

This book is on a very slow passage indeed. Too much else going on in my life with more excitement. Hoping as the season slows down, I will get into it.

Once again loving Richard Russo. This book not his best but it is still a very enjoyable read.

I loved this book!

I read many of the critiques before I read this book. It's a contemporary novel very apropos to today's pop culture. Historic details aside, it is fiction and taken as such, I enjoyed it.