My willing suspension of disbelief is being challenged. Somehow Scott--the hero swimmer who saved the little boy--is a suspect in the downing of the plane. He paints disaster scenes so he caused one? And he knew he would live? Or it was suicide? Don't get it. The Bill O'Reilly character continues to rail. There seems to be an investigation of one of the crew. The main problem is the story requires a SUICIDAL passenger or crewman, and there just isn't one . . . at least not yet. Much more likely is murder by someone out to get a passenger. I think that's where the book is heading, but I wish it would get there and soon!
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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