Jeff Van Valer
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The Light in the Trees (White Birch Village Book 1)
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White Birch Graffiti (White Birch Village Book 2)
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The Devil's Tricycle: Migraine Headache, Caffeine Abuse, and Insomnia
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Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
I loved this quote because like most absolutes, this is not always accurate.
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“Come down and eat chicken with me, beautiful,” it whispered in a cracked and dying voice. “It’s soooo dark—”
King wrote this before IT of course but what a flashback for me to Pennywise.
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Four stars is a "This is a very good book. This will build a fan-base. Read this one." I gave The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and gave Find Her by Lisa Gardner four stars, and I referred them to my sister.
Five stars: These books make me emote. I’m not afraid to say so. I cry, laugh, love, and hate in some books. Instead of using books, I'll use movies. Almost any adult knows the last three here, and most will know the first two. The thriller movies Speed and True Lies appeared that year. By the above algorithm, these movies would bring four solid stars. The same year also brought us Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, and The Shawshank Redemption. That one year produced three of my top-ten all-time favorites. They all get five stars from me for different reasons. PF didn’t make me cry, but it entertained and wowed the ever-loving hell out of me. Forrest Gump and Shawshank both nearly killed me. I left the theaters drained. Books do that to me, too. Five-star books distract me at work and keep me up at night, even when I’m done reading them. They make me want to call my friends and go out for beer so we can talk about the stories. These books only fail in one thing, and that is reminding me I’m reading.