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Entry Date:9/7/20
Time spent reading:30min
Pages read:33
Favorite quote/scene:"Wearing the flattest expression Shelly had ever seen. No remorse,no glee, not a drop of sweat on his brow."
Personal Connection:The setting for this story is an a very small and remote town. This is very similar to my childhood town Ellabell, Georgia where even someone getting speeding ticket would spread like wildfire let alone a murder

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Entry Date:9/16/20
Time spent reading: 30 min
Pages read:31
Favorite quote/scene "No need to ask which night he was talking about. My whole life came down to one evening."
Personal Connection: On pages 60 to 63 Rainie  ,her foster mother, is telling her how her brother is on a killing spree and she needs as much detail as possible. While this might not be the clearest connection I can relate. It can be hard to talk about family matters especially when that person has done something wrong. If being in therapy has taught me anything is that family matters hit the hardest. Again, This is not the clearest connection but it was what I honestly thinking about visualizing the scene.

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Entry Date:10/2/20
Time spent reading: 30 min
Pages read: 30
Favorite quote/scene: "A tracking team's goal was to establish a target's directionality.Once they picked up the trail and determined which direction the fugitive was headed, then Cal's team would become a spear, slowly but surely driving the target forward."
Personal Connection: While Telly Ray Nash may be villain in this story I can understand the feeling of being corned and scared. This is one of the reasons I like this book, it's not black and white more like all gray.

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Entry Date:10/9/20
Time spent reading:30min
Pages read:37
Favorite quote/scene:"Did he blame me? Did he look down at his baby sister,sobbing pathetically at his feet, and think it was all my fault."
Personal connection: I understand what Sharlah is feeling in this quote. When something happens that you don't understand,especially with family,it is very easy to blame yourself. When this happens you often you make a version of the event that makes you out to be the villain even though that isn't the case. In Sharlas case, Telly didn't think that at all.

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Entry Date:10/16/20
Time spent reading:30min
Pages read:38
Favorite quote/scene:" 'Telly has pictures of Sharlah on his cell phone?' 'Half a dozen shots, taken in the past five days' "
Personal Connection: While I have never been stalked by someone, I understand the fear of being watched. The feeling of finding out you're being watched is horrifying because ANY private moments are now public.

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I recently finished "What the Night Knows" by Dean Koontz.
I liked it a lot up until the end. While the book didn't bother me at fist with the adult themes  and overall angst it leaned into it way to heavily at the end and the sudden twist with religion it just did not sit well with me. I've read similar books with the angsty and adult themes illustrated here and it never bothered me and really helped give weight to the story but here it went to far and ruined the story.

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I am currently reading "Right Behind You" by Lisa Gardner.
It seems to be a great book so far and I can sense the tension slowly rising. It looks like it will be a great read.

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I'm excited to read "Brainchild" the first of three books published in one collection. It was given to me by my grandfather and we have very similar tastes in books and often swap books when we are done. I don't know anything about this book I'm excited to read it

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Growing up I never liked reading, and would grown and scoff when forced to read. I was placed in the gifted program where I used to live in Georgia and I hated having to read these complex and boring books. Then  I was diagnosed with type on diabetes and spent many months in the hospital. I remember getting cards from my classmates and realizing, like I did when I made those same cards for other kids, no one actually cared or understood. In my hospital bed I had one TV that was maybe 240 pixels so I couldn't see what was happening and the sound quality was awful. So to try and distract myself I turned to the only other form of entertainment I had, books from the lobby. I quickly fell in love with these dusty books and have been reading ever since