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Nonstop wackiness! 😈

The first two chapters have definitely been intriguing!

Man, that story about the yoga retreat! 😳 🧘

Okay, that 🪲 story was really a fun ride! 🎶

REST STOP was so good! A bit of everything on that one! 📖

So far, so good! 🚽 🕷️ 🐍

Plenty of convenient occurrences and potentially dangerous confrontations - completely on-brand for a Reacher book… 📖

“Delta Force is full of guys who can stay awake for a week and walk a hundred miles and shoot the balls off a tsetse fly, but it’s really empty of guys who can do all that and then tell you the difference between a Shiite and a trip to the latrine.”

Lee Child is great at explaining his hero by showing us his observations:

“Their bodies were stocky, but toned. They looked like they could run half-marathons without much trouble, but without much enjoyment either.”

Great start! 🚇

“…the quality of each moment depends not on what we get from it, but on what we bring to it.”

Happiness = Reality - Expectations
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“If addiction was a locked room with a single key, depression was a house of mirrors. Every turn offered a different reflection of the problem, each one pointing to a different solution.”

“We’re not great at predicting how social interactions will go. And most of the time, we’re selling them short.”

“Research by Jeffrey Hall has shown that transitioning from an acquaintance to a casual friend takes approximately 9️⃣4️⃣ hours, from a casual friend to friend about 1️⃣6️⃣4️⃣ hours, and from a friend to a close or best friend an average of 2️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ hours.”
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Love the touring stories - what a crazy year! Too bad the author didn’t include more of her photos!

Opportunity knocks for our plucky heroine! ☠️ 🎸

Music felt like magic to me, and it also connected me to people.
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