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He had an easy way about him that I found reassuring. Being on the slightly manic side, I didn’t have a lot of calm in my life. He felt like the human equivalent of a cool cloth on the forehead, or a weighted blanket. I liked him.

“I watched as he lifted the glass to his lips, which were puckered ever so slightly. I glanced away. Staring is rude, you know, and I imagined that ogling a librarian was even worse than that. Sort of like checking out a nun.” Haha, this made me laugh!

DNF due to spice and language

“Happiness squandered was painful to look at from the future.”

“Well, there will be some things I very much want to miss.”

“Ah, but the more you pull away from something, the more it finds you.”

He read because stories gave him room to grow beyond the world he was given. They helped him feel as if the lives he read about intertwined with his own, like threads in an ever-expanding rope. Stories made him strong.

“Stories were his playground. They were his freedom. Through them, he could imagine himself a rich man, an adventure, a hero, a villain, or simply incredibly well fed. Depending on the tale, he could picture himself surviving hardship or living in greatness. They gave him room to exist beyond the red bricks and restricted life of Glossop Road.”

“books,” she once said, “are mirrors for the soul. so if you catch a glimpse of someone’s soul, you will know the mirror for them.”

Moderate cursing :(

Cute, several LOL moments and I’m only a few chapters in 🙂

DNF for me. I probably should have realized a tell all about an 80s movie star would not be up my alley. Had descriptive sex scene, that I skipped over but then it became obvious it wouldn’t be the only one.

DNF - pg 121