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And soon this hammerhead noticed that I went missing for some time each day. He made assumptions and pounded and pounded and pounded at me like I was a nail he had to make flush with the surface.

will finish this tonight...

hmm...

When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to 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. (p.26)

stupid me, I meant Stephen king 's new book Joyland.

putting aside for now as I picked up my reserved copy of Joyride at library today.

still not feeling it...

Not quite sure about this one yet. Dancing around the very edges of the "disappearance" without any explanation or clarity is becoming a bit annoying at this point.

He turned away from the bar as if he could leave the question there. But questions had no location; they could follow him around.

Frantically, he pulled the waistband of his boxers away from his lower belly. The frank had vanished, but the beans remained.

loving this...

Oops, I was so absorbed in reading this morning that I forgot to wake up my 2 year old. He slept an extra hour.

I just noticed that John Bruni is from my town ;)

under different circumstances I would have knocked this out a long time ago but I've had little time to read lately :(

better than his father by far.

...there is something awful about Christmas music when it is nearly summer. It was like a clown in the rain, with his makeup running.

...there is something awful about Christmas music when it is nearly summer. it was like a clown in the rain, with his makeup running.

In Christmasland everyday is Christmas, and the children there never feel anything like unhappiness...There is only fun. It is like heaven - only of course they are not dead.

A tad disappointed thus far.

Really enjoying this collection of stories.

So far this is a real snoozer. Hope something happens soon...

"In the midst of life we are in death"

"There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one"