Joanna’s Reviews > Portrait of a Thief > Status Update

“they had been so careful” you visited BOTH museums in broad daylight, no disguises or anything, the day before robbing them

fbi agent has his son’s birthday as the password to his work computer? sure jan

look up plentea because it was mentioned, booking my flight to san fran NOW

I think if you cut out all the unnecessary flashbacks that add nothing to the story, we’d be left with maybe 50 pages

“somehow, impossibly” used 3x in 6 pages. I don’t think ms li paid that much attention in her creative writing classes

“when did we all become friends” til you can be friends with people you barely talk to !

do we need to refer this group as a “crew” 82 times in a book that’s less than 400 pages? I think not

really not understanding why we’re constantly first and last name-ing characters

add “somehow, impossibly” to the list of overused phrases

we still haven’t robbed one museum ….