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Ouch, this hurts. It’s hard to avoid knowing the ending because it’s such a short novel, but knowing the ending makes you hurt so much more for the main character as you walk through his emotions.

“I open a round of nighttime negotiations, which take the form of prayer.”

This chapter.

“When your spirit is uneasy, stillness can be a kind of suffering.”

I trust this narrator about as much as I would trust a one-legged chair.

Chapter 28 is a necessary re-read.

“A field sowed with thousands of tiny metallic seeds of war that produce no harvest.”

Darrow’s kinda lost the plot hasn’t he?

Sobbing. I wish I could give Morrie the biggest hug.

“Perspective is a wicked creature.”

I’m already 6 chapters through this book right?
The main character’s name is Chase. I SWEAR up until this point no context has been given to this character’s gender, so I’ve been assuming it’s just a guy who was in a past relationship with the other male lead. Nope. They start throwing “ma’am’s” and “she’s” at me and I’m just sitting here wondering when we changed POV.

“Now I knew my mother had liked almond cake with honey and hot tea, that she once used the word ‘profoundly’…”

I only recognize it because I’m currently in that position, but there’s a portion of grief when you worry about the things you don’t know about a person who is gone. You recognize that your memory of them will fade and even knowing the words they would use is such treasured knowledge.

I’m watching the show The Punisher and there are so many book/literary references. I totally wasn’t expecting that from a show like this but I love it and hope they keep them coming!

“I feel like a tourist in my own country”
“You still think of this place as your country?”

The symbolism! The parallels!

You’ve got to be kidding me. There was such a great set up to get the main character out of this situation and to a smooth conclusion, and you drop the ball just like that?! With a piece of paper?! COME ON.

I’m in the introduction and there’s already a Letterkenny reference, I love this.
“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”

I have 1 gripe so far. Just one.
The female main character. Her first move in a fight is always a kick to the face. When you are presumably shorter than your upright opponent, their face is not the best option to start with.
I just keep imagining a cartoonish Rockettes high kick in the middle of these intense fight scenes. There are better ways to show her hand-to-hand combat training. Otherwise I love it.

I’ve hit a wall with this one.

“It wasn’t meant to be. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.”

The way Hosseini describes events is just so eloquent. It’s respectful of the subject matter without lessening the impact of it.

Woah. Talk about a shock factor!

On audiobook format, the character focus changes are a little more confusing than I imagine they would be with the physical book.
But it’s reminding me of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, which was a book I enjoyed so I’ve got high hopes.

wooo boy that middle part was slow rolling. It’s starting to pick up the pace again, but there’s still so much left and I don’t understand how.

When it comes to the books vs. movies debate, I tend to appreciate how books are allotted more time to develop the story. But in this case, the movie gives so much more purpose to these important scenes. It’s the small things like how the fear simulations are navigated by the characters that adds a richness to the story in the movie that the book is unfortunately lacking.

For a book that is at times, word for word, the same as the movie; it also couldn’t be more different.

I love love love the way chapter one ends.