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This is amazing!

This is a slow burn, and surprises me at every turn of the page.

It's been 6 days, and no longer struggling (very much).

It's been 6 days, and no longer struggling (very much).

Just started. Seems all ARCs are delayed due to lockdowns.

Hi.
Check out my interview with Phaedra Patrick, international bestselling author of THE CURIOUS CHARMS OF ARTHUR PEPPER, and RISE AND SHINE, BENEDICT STONE, where we talk about her wonderful characters and latest book THE LIBRARY OF LOST AND FOUND, coming out on March 26.

Author's Friday | PHAEDRA PATRICK

I am reading pretentious pretend people. So far it's been like - "going to write about royalties, dump everything that's good on them, like, let's make their dad James Bond too".

Tell me there are redeeming qualities here, please.

Well-written!

I'm really enjoying this.

Have a Blessed Christmas, everyone! 🎄

In the end, there was one river, one bridge, and one mule...

"But there was no decision to make.
Maybe it's a universal truth of boys and fire; the same way we'll often throw stones. We pick them up and aim for anything. Even me, edging close to nineteen."

"She was so self-contained that sometimes I think I missed the full extent of the hurt and guilt. I did my best to be on guard for it. But having spent half my life distracted by what was outside – my deals, my empire – I often forgot to see what lay inside and how precious it was."

"The distance between us was him."

"When we hit a piano key and it makes no sound, we hit it again, because we have to. We need to hear something, and we hope it isn't a mistake..."

"Country ran thicker than most things, and that was how people connected."

He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach.

I actually googled for The New Yorker's cover, dated August 20, 1932. LOL

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication
until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an over dominant sense.
You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

Even the illusion of perimeters fails when families are separated

She was of the common persuasion. Time that had not come yet—an anomaly in itself—had the fiercest reality for her. It was a hard wind in her face; if she had made the world, every tree would be bent, every stone weathered, every bough stripped by that steady and contrary wind. Lucille saw in everything its potential for invidious change.

There are few words that are harder to explain than “loyalty.” It’s always regarded as a positive characteristic, because a lot of people would say that many of the best things people do for each other occur precisely because of loyalty. The only problem is that many of the very worst things we do to each other occur because of the same thin

Never again do you find friends like the ones you have when you’re fifteen years old

Never again do you find friends like the ones you have when you’re fifteen years old

It’s only a game. It can only change people’s lives.