Kellie Honaker > Recent Status Updates

I’ve gone through 3 library holds trying to get through this. I sped up the narration. It has no business being a 24 hour audiobook. I am struggling. King, in his old age, must not delete a single word. I’m enjoying the dog, and Claudia. The rest I couldn’t care less about. I retained absolutely no one during the gladiator stage and didn’t give a hoot when they died. Im glad king stuck mostly to horror.

If you don’t strut, how’s anyone supposed to know you own the place?

Outsiders know empathy better than anybody else on the planet.

DNF at 40%. I found myself dreading coming back to the story. The writing is good, but the relentless animal and child abuse wasn’t worth it for me. The connection between the two timelines wasn’t intriguing enough to carry me through. I’ve heard a lot of praise for this book, so I know I’m in the minority. I’m a seasoned horror lover, but when nearly half the book is nothing but abuse, I draw the line.

This is depressing as hell.

It was shaped like a woman, but it didn’t move like one. It moved like a spider, something with a fiddle or a bowtie on its back. But not an hourglass. An hourglass shows time moving, one direction out another. Whatever this was, it was stuck in time, if not in place.

What in the infernal f*ck is she talking about??

I hereby hail Priest the QUEEN of stringing readers along. I’m on page 170 and absolutely nothing is happening. Sh*t better go down REAL fast and soon before I throw this book in the bonfire.

Omg, how I love Feather. 😂

DNF at 16%

This deadpan narrator is killing me.

I like when other people are happy. It makes me feel good when I get to be a part of it. Not everyone, just the people I like.

(And people label this “people pleasing” as if it’s something to be ashamed of.)

Confidence is silent.
Insecurities are loud.

Hope is dangerous.

Omg, I adore Claudia. She’s hilarious.

Oh, now I’m just ANGRY…

It’s an awesome book so far. There’s zombies, ghosts from the Great War, and a hairless monkey. I don’t have an effing CLUE what’s going on. 😂😂

My name is Theo Faber. I’m 42 years old. And I became a psychotherapist because I was fucked up. That’s the truth.

Omg, I love Jawbone SO MUCH. 😂😂

Holy shit, I’m HOOKED!

A gift given to someone who wants nothing from you is worthless.

Some people grow weak when they are victimized. Others grow stronger.
And still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous.

What belonged to you once, will always belong to you.
Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another’s heart in your hand.

The only cure for old age is death. There are things you cannot change. That you should not change.

“To any man who ever loves an Owens, let this curse befall you, let your fate lead to disaster, let you be broken in body and soul, and may it be that you never recover.”

A woman alone who could read and write was suspect. Words were magic. Books were not to be trusted. What men could not understand, they wished to burn.

Some creatures do not care how polite a person might be, they will hurt you for no reason, and then all you can do is heal yourself with whatever ingredients are necessary.

Want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense.

It was never a good idea to place one’s faith in someone who was by her very nature undependable. Rebecca‘s presence meant that there was trouble ahead. There was a reason she hadn’t come to see her child before now. She had other things on her mind. Love for some people was like that, easy to slip on and off.

Sorrow spoken aloud is sorrow lived through twice.