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Can Mr Adams live up to No exit?

Finally reading this

Book club book #4 and this cover is insane

"Do you like novels?"

"No," Toby said.

"Why not?"

Toby didn't have time for this. "Because they make me feel like God poking around inside someone's head."

Kassandra gave him a dark grin. "You're definitely in the wrong family, then."

"What makes you say that?"

"If there’s one thing rich people like to do, it's to feel like God."

“I dragged myself from hell to you.”

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New audiobook 👀💀

“There is no explaining this simple truth about life: you will forget much of it.

Memories are replaced by different joys and larger sorrows, and unbelievably, those things get knocked aside as well, until one morning you're picking cherries with your three grown daughters and your husband goes by on the Gator and you are positive that this is all you've ever wanted in the world.”
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Every Parent, however rich, lives in the shadow of the debt their children accrue under their care. It is the psychic debt, the debt of damage - the trauma and fear and insecurity and loss - that tallies up, day by day, in their children's minds, the debt that will take their children the rest of their lives to pay off.”

“It is sentimental and useless to tell someone you would gladly give them your past because the past is nontransferable, and any-way, I would have wanted to give her only the good days.

You had me at “narrated by Meryl Streep”

New Horowitz and Hawthorne makes a very happy Dustin

“I had started to get that subtle, creeping feeling-—like the walls were closing in, and I needed to escape. A reminder of why I'd left in the first place.
Stay too long, and you became exactly what Mirror Lake decided you would be.

How quickly the past could grasp on to you here, and pull.”

Not Dustin actually reading another 2024 release

Their entire history was coiled up tightly in her head. If she let it out, it might obliterate the reality of how he looked to her…and she felt a curious reluctance to share it, because she was its sole author. He'd merely been the reader

“It came to her now, with a clarity brought by her return after long absence, how much she must have always hated being a ministers daughter. His earnest faith and sanctity were an ador that forever threatened to adhere to her, like the smell of Chesterfields, only worse, because it couldn’t be washed off.”

Trying this on audio bc these 500+ pages have been staring at me from my shelf for years

“Of course Jordan a wasn’t an astronaut, or anything close to it. He was a public relations executive- bound to earth by gravity, a mortgage, and his husband. And it wasn’t space travel that kept him away from his friends,… as poetic as it might be to imagine, so much as his own busy life. And the sad fact that friends, even best friends of 30 years, drift apart.”

Let’s see if this changes my life like The Guncle did

“Jacks took the cherubs ring and gave it two quick raps.

Evangeline swore the knocker frowned, and she understood how it felt.

She wouldn’t wanna be touched by him either”