Lisa Eckstein’s Reviews > How to Be Safe > Status Update

"A week before the school reopened, they enacted a new policy: every teacher and administrator would be required to keep a gun at their desk, like blackjack dealers in the Old West, and in each grade, ten students would be designated as Class Guardians, armed and trained in tactical shooting." It's hard to write satire in an era when reality looks like satire.

"I hung up. I searched my phone for a button to undo the conversation I'd just had, but I could not find it. Technology does so many things, but almost none of them are useful."

I've been anticipating this second novel from one of the hosts of the great Book Fight podcast. The book, which came out today, opens with a school shooting, and because this subject never stops being relevant these days, I was about to sit down to read when I heard about an active shooter at a workplace nearby.