Dannii Elle’s Reviews > The Stand > Status Update

"who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do."

"He went into the bathroom, set his Coleman lamp on the sink so that it illuminated the mirror, and for the next fifteen minutes he practised smiling. He was getting very good at it."

"Society will reappear... notice I didn't use the word 'reform'. That would have been a ghastly pun. There's precious little reform in the human race."

Everything and nothing has happened so far and I'm here for all of it!

"It was nothing like the prelude to madness she had gone through before. That had been like passing through some gray, foul tunnel full of shapes more sensed than seen"

"the country would come alive in all its glorious possibilities, a body politic with its network of roads embedded in its skin like marvellous capillaries, ready to take him, the dark speck of foreign matter, anywhere or everywhere - heart, liver, lights, brain. He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate"

Despite reading a handful of pages almost every day, I've fallen WAY behind on my monthly buddy read. Can I catch up with less than 24 hours to go of the month!?

Each character is provided with a little bit of backstory before moving on to another and another still. The storyline still hasn't really got moving but I am really enjoying the meandering progression it has so far made.

I'm reading 50 pages of this per day as part of a buddy read and each day it is proving harder to stop where I'm supposed to!