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1) Was up until 3 in the morning because I HAD to finish Hideo Yokoyama's Six Four. You guys, I loved this book. Like I said before, it takes a while to get going, but once it did, I was hooked. This is a book about cops and missing kids, how to be a parent and how to conduct yourself with honor, the role of a free press in a modern society and what to do when nothing is as it seems. Potential readers beware that this is a LONG novel -- my hardback copy is something like 566 pages. A LOT happens, and A LOT doesn't happen, and you're in the POV of one character the whole time, and sometimes, you know what? HE'S confused as to WTF IS GOING ON. All this led to a twist ending that I genuinely never saw coming and which was the sort of surprise that actually made me think "Oh my god WHAT?" This was just such a great read for me; I can't recommend it enough.

2) Made (another) donation to the ACLU this morning. :-P

3) There was a woman on our local Next Door site who called CNN "the Communist News Network." She wasn't joking. And this was before the woman who said her husband was a Vietnam War vet who respected the flag so much that he'd "corrected" people he saw who were flying Old Glory upside-down, and the guy over the weekend who would not accept that "G-d" was a spelling some folks adhered to. There are some scary folks out there, chiclets. :-(

Date: 2018-06-27 03:06 am (UTC)
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I am thinking I need to read this book.

And man, people.

We had a customer show up a couple weeks ago sporting a t-shirt which read, “I PROUDLY KNEEL FOR THE CROSS AND STAND FOR THE FLAG.”

I didn’t say anything, because professional. But I kept thinking, “Thanks for letting us all know you’re an ignorant racist, dude!”

Edited to add that this sort of shit is why I have negative interest in getting onto NextDoor.
Edited Date: 2018-06-27 03:07 am (UTC)

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