Status Updates From The Great Halifax Explosion...

jfc this book is terribly sad

which. probably should have been predictable, since it's about an explosion that killed a fifth of a city and injured about half of them -- but GOSH IT IS VERY SAD

"If this was the work of God" (said the reverend) "I'll tear off his clerical collar."

"You know that neither Ethel or I are of a collapsing nature, so, hard as it was, we had to cover the body and leave it." damn girl okay

grisly.

"... the bootleggers and prostitutes who arrived from all over Canada to support the troops, in their way."

we all must do our best in these trying times