Almost finished with my very battered copy of the 3rd book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series! Does anyone else read (and love) this series?!

"My sleep has been broken at least four times. Yesterday and tomorrow are islands I'm swimming between. My brain is pulsing. I can hear the beat of blood between my ear and the pillow. The darkness is alien blue."

Frank, lucid prose drives this story of madness and modern survival. Grief settles in the cracks of Vince & Lyd's marriage. After everything, can they learn to lean on one another again?

Ok, last one from The Girls: "I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly. That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about."

"There wasn't a frightening gap between the life she was living and the way she thought about that life, a dark ravine I often sensed in Suzanne, and maybe in my own self as well." Emma Cline does so well, parsing out the mysteries of a teenage girl's mind.

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