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I’m a sucker for Tuck Everlasting in August

Blessed with another novel by Patrick Radden Keefe!!

I’m enjoying this book (and it’s just picking up!) but unfortunately the reader seems to have a problem saying the word “shoulder” (he often says it more like “shouldjer”, like a mix of shoulder and soldier). And double unfortunately, I do believe the word shoulder is truly the most common word in this book XD

Okay I need to say that I cannot recall if Alba, supposedly obsessed with embroidery, has actually ever embroidered on page. It’s literally a great activity for her to do while having some inner dialogue! Please correct me if anyone has read this. It’s very frustrating to me!

Anthony is being sooo naive haha. Not a good look for his ego!!

Oh my god did not expect this

I loveeee Miss Cornelia — “isn’t that JUST like a man???” She would kill the Prince Edward Island standup circuit

Oh my Emma is so messy!!!

Anthony is soooo whiny in this one. I hope he gets over himself soon….but unsure if he will bc this kind of feels like one of the hallmarks of the series

Wow I just want Nelly to strangle Linton

The characters are cute but kind of suck as detectives. Can they get one win??

I forgot how I’m such a sucker for Halley’s Comet in books. To be so lucky to see it one day!

Hello again dear Jane!

Oh myyy what a denouement!!

This is insane

Okay even before this scene I decided I Hated Blue’s Dad — he’s like the most insufferable gifted student that grew up and never learned to respect or recognize the humanity in people who are less well-read than him. But now he’s extra annoying!

I have caught TWO editorial errors in the book at this point. I should be paid for this work!!!

I can’t believe I’m finally reading it!!

There are just too many basic white dude names in this novel set in England in the 1700s that I can’t keep them straight! (Pete, John, Joseph, Thomas…). I literally need first name last name as a reminder at the start of every chapter haha

This book is so funny!! Genius to juxtapose the witch trials and the influencing / mass hysteria that happened there with the small scale hysteria that happens in every good high school sports team BUT there actually is some kind of spirit at play. Much foreshadowing that it doesn’t ALL work out as they want but damn if I don’t want them to win states so bad!!

And so the great reread in preparation for The Rose Field begins!!

How glad I am to be proven wrong!!!!!!!

I have only now accepted that we are being ROBBED of ANY scenes of Anne visiting Green Gables! V upset

Are movable stacks the Checkov’s gun of the library in horror novels?!???? Only one way to find out!

Culprit is sooooo unhinged I love it!!!

Omg this is so much already!

I guess it’s back-to-back vampire book April for me lol

Okay aggressive of Anne Rice to refer to <spoiler>Louis burning the theater as a holocaust lol </spoiler>

No doubt in my mind that Louis de Pointe du Lac and Edward Cullen would be BFFs

Man the last section is even more bleak than when I first read this 9 years ago