Error Pop-Up - Close Button Sorry, you must be a member of the group to do that. Join this group.

Joyland
Rate it:
Open Preview
Read between June 14 - June 17, 2025
4%
Flag icon
What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy.
8%
Flag icon
When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you’ve been looking at the map upside down, and not until you’re forty are you entirely sure. By the time you’re sixty, take it from me, you’re fucking lost.
11%
Flag icon
down deep I was convinced I was never going to die. Not even my mother’s death had been able to shake that core belief.
17%
Flag icon
a willowy redheaded art major named Erin Cook
Mandi Kromalic
Weird coincidence
18%
Flag icon
“Nah, you don’t understand the rich-guy mindset,” Tom said. “It’s like when they pass bums looking for handouts on the street. They just erase em from their field of vision. Bums? What bums? And that park, same deal—what park?
18%
Flag icon
People who own these houses live, like, on another plane of existence.”
33%
Flag icon
because passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
34%
Flag icon
“God put you in the right place at the right time, Dev,”
48%
Flag icon
How quick he must have been, and how certain of exactly what he was going to do!
Mandi Kromalic
Idk what this style of writing is called but i love it in every book
48%
Flag icon
There was a sound. A long, slow sigh. Not a human sigh, not in the least.
Mandi Kromalic
Having flashbacks to CHS haunted jail that almost ruined my life
48%
Flag icon
“Did that ugly sonofabitch ever give you a lunch break?”
49%
Flag icon
“I think it’s more likely the other way around—the bad temper made the bad skin.” He tapped his temple. “Head controls body, that’s what I believe. Come on, Jonesy, let’s get to work.”
56%
Flag icon
“The devil can quote scripture.”
58%
Flag icon
after another rainy weekend. It was still cloudy, but in honor of Monday, the rain had stopped.
83%
Flag icon
But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.