Reading Journey

Title	Plague
Author	Michael Grant
Publisher	HarperCollins
Isbn	9780062077165
Percent	99.9%

Highlights

Date	Chapter	Percent	Color	Quote	Note
June 19, 2023 14:51	Five Days Later	92.4%	#DFC	“You’re having a baby?” Dekka asked. “Let’s hope so,” Diana said bleakly. “Let’s hope that’s all it is.”
June 19, 2023 14:50	Five Days Later	91.8%	#DFC	“Quinn, I’m glad you found something so important to do. Something you really like.”
June 19, 2023 14:49	Five Days Later	91.6%	#DFC	“Yeah. Albert decides anything about money or work or trade back and forth between Perdido Beach and the lake. And the Healer goes wherever the Healer wants to go.”
June 19, 2023 14:49	Five Days Later	91.5%	#DFC	“I’m keeping my things here, in Perdido Beach. But there will be free trading of stuff between Perdido Beach and the lake. And Lana has to be allowed to move freely.”
June 19, 2023 14:49	Five Days Later	91.3%	#DFC	“Sam is the best fighter ever. He’s defended us many times. And he’s the best at figuring out how to survive. But Sam”—Albert now turned to him—“You are too humble. Too willing to step aside. When Astrid and the council sidelined you, you put up with it. I was part of that myself. But you let us push you aside and the council turned out to be useless.”
June 19, 2023 14:48	Five Days Later	90.9%	#DFC	“To go with Sam, or to stay here. I won’t try to stop anyone, and I won’t hold it against anyone.” He placed his hand over his heart
June 19, 2023 14:47	Five Days Later	90.6%	#DFC	Edilio sat in a lawn chair. He looked like he was still close to death’s door, but the cough was gone, his fever was down, and he was determined.
June 19, 2023 14:46	The Morning After	90.3%	#DFC	I love you, Astrid. No matter what, I love you.”
June 19, 2023 14:46	The Morning After	90.0%	#DFC	“I’m sorry about Little Pete.”
June 19, 2023 14:45	The Morning After	89.8%	#DFC	You ordered the death of a five-year-old autistic boy, Mr. Temple? The accusing tribunal was back.
June 19, 2023 14:44	Forty-Two: 3 Minutes	88.9%	#DFC	And she wondered as she walked, how it could be that the FAYZ was ended and yet Jack was still so strong.
June 19, 2023 14:43	Forty-Two: 3 Minutes	88.8%	#DFC	“We are the arm of the Darkness. He will send us to take you. Both of you.”
June 19, 2023 14:42	Forty-One: 13 Minutes	88.2%	#DFC	She turned and took off but not so quickly that she missed the strange new boy saying, “That’s not the truth.”
June 19, 2023 14:30	Thirty-Nine: 38 Minutes	82.7%	#DFC	“Which is why the world stays messed up,” Caine said under his breath. “People aren’t rational.”
June 19, 2023 14:29	Thirty-Nine: 38 Minutes	82.4%	#DFC	She was not going to win this fight, but she wasn’t going to run, either.
June 19, 2023 14:29	Thirty-Nine: 38 Minutes	82.1%	#DFC	For some reason the Virgin Mary had Brianna’s voice.
June 19, 2023 14:28	Thirty-Eight: 59 Minutes	81.8%	#DFC	Playing dead meant letting some kids die so that he could live. Caine decided he was probably fine with that.
June 19, 2023 14:24	Thirty-Eight: 59 Minutes	80.0%	#DFC	“I’m with you, Sam. I guess I don’t get to take the easy way out.”
June 19, 2023 13:35	Thirty-Six: 1 Hour, 45 Minutes	76.8%	#DFC	Drake served the Darkness but he was not just some errand boy. He had his own needs.
June 19, 2023 13:35	Thirty-Six: 1 Hour, 45 Minutes	76.5%	#DFC	“You pick him up, Jack. Carry him to the closest one of those bugs you can find.” “Yeah?” Jack asked in a quavering voice. “Toss him to the bug,” Sam said.
June 19, 2023 13:34	Thirty-Six: 1 Hour, 45 Minutes	76.4%	#DFC	“Sam believes that’s true
June 19, 2023 12:50	Thirty-Six: 1 Hour, 45 Minutes	75.6%	#DFC	His heel hurt, but far worse was the terrible fear that he was destined for Hunter’s fate.
June 19, 2023 01:22	Thirty-Five: 1 Hour, 55 Minutes	75.0%	#DFC	The scream changed in pitch as Lance tumbled down and smashed into the ground at the far end of the plaza.
June 19, 2023 01:19	Thirty-Five: 1 Hour, 55 Minutes	74.1%	#DFC	Edilio, helpless, as weak as a newborn kitten, shivering so hard he looked like he was having a seizure.	He better not die
June 19, 2023 01:09	Thirty-Five: 1 Hour, 55 Minutes	73.4%	#DFC	“They must be joined, the Darkness and Nemesis. Together they will have all power, and then, Sam, it all ends, you know. Then the eggshell cracks and He is born.”
June 18, 2023 22:07	Thirty-Four: 2 Hours, 51 Minutes	70.4%	#DFC	“I mean, you think about all the kids,” Dekka said. “Bette. The twins. Duck, poor old Duck. Harry. E.Z. Hunter.” After a pause, “Mary.” “Lots of others,” Sam said.
June 18, 2023 22:07	Thirty-Four: 2 Hours, 51 Minutes	70.3%	#DFC	He held her immobile with powers she could not resist and kissed her.
June 18, 2023 22:03	Thirty-Three: 3 Hours, 47 Minutes	70.0%	#DFC	“I can’t stay, Petey,” Astrid said. “If I stay here . . . I’m sorry, Petey. I’m done.”
June 18, 2023 22:03	Thirty-Three: 3 Hours, 47 Minutes	70.0%	#DFC	She walked off into the falling night
June 18, 2023 22:01	Thirty-Three: 3 Hours, 47 Minutes	69.7%	#DFC	Mom. Dad. I’m alive. I made it. But Petey didn’t. I’m so sorry, but . . .
June 18, 2023 22:00	Thirty-Three: 3 Hours, 47 Minutes	69.5%	#DFC	How would the girl who loved math and science, who could read all through the night, the girl of sweet romantic daydreams and big plans to save the world, how was that girl ever going to exist again?
June 18, 2023 21:56	Thirty-Three: 3 Hours, 47 Minutes	69.1%	#DFC	A reading. Two bars. Definitely. Clear, unmistakable.
June 18, 2023 21:56	Thirty-Three: 3 Hours, 47 Minutes	69.1%	#DFC	She tried to recall half-remembered lectures from sex ed a million years ago. Words like “blastocyst” and “embryo” swam in her brain.
June 18, 2023 21:53	Thirty-Two: 3 Hours, 48 Minutes	67.9%	#DFC	“I am sorry to add to your problems, boss,” she said. Then she raised her own shirt and Sam saw the tiny mouthparts poking through her flesh.
June 18, 2023 21:53	Thirty-Two: 3 Hours, 48 Minutes	67.7%	#DFC	Dekka stumbled as she ran, slapped her belly, and for a moment Sam thought something had hit her.
June 18, 2023 21:38	Thirty-One: 3 Hours, 49 Minutes	66.1%	#DFC	“There’s no God in the FAYZ, didn’t you know that?” he said.
June 18, 2023 21:38	Thirty-One: 3 Hours, 49 Minutes	65.9%	#DFC	“Orc,” she said softly. “Are you trying to kill yourself?”
June 18, 2023 21:38	Thirty-One: 3 Hours, 49 Minutes	65.9%	#DFC	“You can’t do that,” she said. “It’s . . . it’s wrong.”
June 18, 2023 21:27	Thirty: 3 Hours, 50 Minutes	63.4%	#DFC	Albert’s dead,” Brianna said. “Murdered.”
June 18, 2023 21:27	Thirty: 3 Hours, 50 Minutes	63.4%	#DFC	“He’s dead. Sam and Dekka are off in the wilderness somewhere. Edilio’s got the flu, he might die, a lot of kids have. A lot. And there are these, these monsters, these kind of bugs . . . no one knows what to call them . . . heading toward town.” Her face contorted in a mix of rage and sorrow and fear. She blurted, “And I can’t stop them!”
June 18, 2023 21:25	Thirty: 3 Hours, 50 Minutes	62.9%	#DFC	“She’s kind of busy trying to save a couple of creeps Edilio shot.”
June 18, 2023 21:23	Thirty: 3 Hours, 50 Minutes	62.5%	#DFC	“Okay, I don’t know if you can hear this or not, Donald Trump, but if I save your butt, you owe me
June 18, 2023 16:48	Thirty: 3 Hours, 50 Minutes	62.2%	#DFC	Sam’s Garden of Eden had its own snake.
June 18, 2023 14:21	Twenty-Nine: 4 Hours, 8 Minutes	61.4%	#DFC	“Do you want to be responsible for the lives of everyone who will die just so that you can act all tough?”
June 18, 2023 14:20	Twenty-Nine: 4 Hours, 8 Minutes	61.1%	#DFC	But it was poison in Edilio’s heart. “I can’t save us,” Edilio said. “Neither can you, Brianna. And Sam . . . I don’t know if he can, either. So maybe this is the end. Maybe this is it and we lose.”
June 18, 2023 14:20	Twenty-Nine: 4 Hours, 8 Minutes	61.0%	#DFC	he was hot, flushed, weak. He coughed. And stared blankly at Brianna, who buzzed and vibrated to a wild halt before him.
June 18, 2023 14:19	Twenty-Nine: 4 Hours, 8 Minutes	60.8%	#DFC	I heard. He’s dead. Orc’s gone and Albert’s dead and these idiots are partying like it’s Mardi Gras or something.”
June 18, 2023 14:19	Twenty-Nine: 4 Hours, 8 Minutes	60.8%	#DFC	Albert dead. Sam gone, and no telling when he would get back. Astrid gone with Little Pete and Orc. Dekka away with Sam and Jack.
June 18, 2023 14:15	Twenty-Eight: 5 Hours, 1 Minute	59.6%	#DFC	He didn’t answer. But slowly, slowly his eyes closed. And then opened again. Leslie-Ann ran from the room and from the house. But she did not drop her bag.
June 18, 2023 14:08	Twenty-Eight: 5 Hours, 1 Minute	58.7%	#DFC	“You’ll have to go through me,” Brianna said. “I wouldn’t have it any other way,” Drake said.
June 18, 2023 13:15	Twenty-Six: 9 Hours	56.1%	#DFC	“That’s the law. Killers have to leave. That’s what he is, you know. He’s the worst of us all. Every death from the FAYZ . . . All those kids . . .”
June 18, 2023 13:11	Twenty-Six: 9 Hours	55.0%	#DFC	“I’ll get Lana,” Edilio said.
June 18, 2023 13:10	Twenty-Six: 9 Hours	54.4%	#DFC	“It’s all because of Little Pete,” Astrid said. “No. You don’t know that.” Edilio aimed a furious look at her.
June 18, 2023 13:02	Twenty-Five: 9 Hours, 5 Minutes	52.9%	#DFC	“It’s that dumb brother of hers, Petard!”
June 18, 2023 13:02	Twenty-Four: 9 Hours, 6 Minutes	52.6%	#DFC	“Don’t you ever tell Brianna what you know about how I feel. It would only bring her pain. I love her and I wouldn’t want to make her hurt.”
June 18, 2023 13:01	Twenty-Four: 9 Hours, 6 Minutes	52.5%	#DFC	“My mom had a benign cyst once, so maybe that’s all it is,” Dekka said gravely.
June 18, 2023 13:01	Twenty-Four: 9 Hours, 6 Minutes	52.5%	#DFC	“I’m not,” Dekka said. “But if that’s what it is, if it’s those things, I’m going to ask you to take care of me.”
June 18, 2023 12:52	Twenty-Four: 9 Hours, 6 Minutes	52.3%	#DFC	“There’s kids who pray every night for all this to be over. There’s other kids who pray every night that the barrier stays right where it is.
June 17, 2023 16:07	Twenty-Three: 9 Hours, 14 Minutes	51.0%	#DFC	Orc opened his mouth and water flowed in. Clean, fresh, as cold as ice
June 17, 2023 16:07	Twenty-Three: 9 Hours, 14 Minutes	51.0%	#DFC	water.
June 17, 2023 16:00	Twenty-Three: 9 Hours, 14 Minutes	50.2%	#DFC	“Don’t take risks, don’t be your usual reckless, stupid self: come back as soon as you can, as soon as you see where they’re going.”
June 17, 2023 15:58	Twenty-Three: 9 Hours, 14 Minutes	49.9%	#DFC	“That’s why you don’t
June 17, 2023 15:54	Twenty-Three: 9 Hours, 14 Minutes	49.5%	#DFC	He coughed twice. He licked his lips. His eyes stared blankly up at open sky.
June 17, 2023 15:51	Twenty-Three: 9 Hours, 14 Minutes	49.2%	#DFC	The entire upper floor of the house blew apart. There was no fire. No flame.
June 17, 2023 15:50	Twenty-Two: 12 Hours, 48 Minutes	48.9%	#DFC	Then scimitar mandibles cut Jamal in half and there was no more firing, just a hopeless wail of despair.
June 17, 2023 15:50	Twenty-Two: 12 Hours, 48 Minutes	48.9%	#DFC	The massive bugs surged, and within seconds nothing was left of Jamal.
June 17, 2023 15:45	Twenty-Two: 12 Hours, 48 Minutes	48.1%	#DFC	You did good. And I will get Sam Temple. Sooner or later.”
June 17, 2023 15:38	Twenty-Two: 12 Hours, 48 Minutes	47.4%	#DFC	“That wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be,” Lana said.
June 17, 2023 15:37	Twenty-Two: 12 Hours, 48 Minutes	47.2%	#DFC	You know, from just waking up.” He shivered again and wrapped his arms around his drawn-up legs.	Liar!!!!
June 17, 2023 15:33	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	46.2%	#DFC	Albert’s one good eye went dark.
June 17, 2023 15:31	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	46.0%	#DFC	“Maybe because of this,” Turk said. He leveled his rifle at Albert’s face.
June 17, 2023 15:29	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	45.9%	#DFC	“You think we’re just some stupid white boys who don’t know you can snap your fingers and have Sam or Brianna or one of those freaks come after us?”
June 17, 2023 15:27	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	45.6%	#DFC	“Just go away. I won’t tell anyone.”
June 17, 2023 15:24	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	45.4%	#DFC	about one in ten progressed to full-blown SDC.
June 17, 2023 15:24	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	45.3%	#DFC	The SDC they called it: Supernatural Death Cough.
June 17, 2023 15:23	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	45.0%	#DFC	“Dekka: you have anything you need to tell me?”
June 17, 2023 15:20	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	44.8%	#DFC	Sam noticed her feeling her stomach, pressing in on it, frowning.
June 17, 2023 15:20	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	44.8%	#DFC	Dekka shook her head. “I think I’ll get some sleep.”	Liar!!!!!!
June 17, 2023 15:20	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	44.8%	#DFC	She had her back to him, her shirt lifted up to expose her stomach, which she prodded and poked.
June 17, 2023 15:17	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	44.4%	#DFC	He hated himself. Hated himself so much. He had what he deserved: cold sand and colder water and pain.
June 17, 2023 15:17	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	44.4%	#DFC	Why couldn’t he just die? He deserved to die. He needed to die. If there was some kind of God up there looking down at him, then God was wanting to throw up.
June 17, 2023 15:17	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	44.1%	#DFC	“Sam can’t even kill the things,” Edilio said. “He tried but he couldn’t. I can’t let them hurt more people.”
June 17, 2023 15:17	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	44.1%	#DFC	“Tell everyone I was ever mean to that I’m sorry,” Roscoe said, his voice muffled now.
June 17, 2023 14:23	Twenty-One: 24 Hours, 10 Minutes	43.6%	#DFC	What chance would any kid have with Caine as father and Diana as mother
June 16, 2023 15:56	Nineteen: 28 Hours, 11 Minutes	41.0%	#DFC	It was moving. The flesh itself. He could feel it under his fingertips.
June 16, 2023 15:56	Nineteen: 28 Hours, 11 Minutes	40.8%	#DFC	Like Sam, who had once been Quinn’s closest friend. They were both part of some different class of person. Sam, a hero. A leader
June 16, 2023 15:23	Eighteen: 32 Hours, 36 Minutes	39.6%	#DFC	So this is how you destroy us, Lana thought. This is how you kill us off. The old-fashioned way: plague.
June 16, 2023 15:14	Eighteen: 32 Hours, 36 Minutes	39.3%	#DFC	“Come on, little man,” he said. “Back to bed.”	He’s gonna die
June 16, 2023 15:09	Eighteen: 32 Hours, 36 Minutes	39.2%	#DFC	“I like your boyfriend. Not many guys volunteer to carry ten gallons of diarrhea and vomit.”
June 16, 2023 15:06	Eighteen: 32 Hours, 36 Minutes	38.7%	#DFC	The thirteenth container had been loaded with shoulder-fired missiles.
June 16, 2023 15:06	Eighteen: 32 Hours, 36 Minutes	38.6%	#DFC	“We all eat rats,” Dekka said. “And glad to get a good juicy one, too.”
June 16, 2023 15:05	Eighteen: 32 Hours, 36 Minutes	38.3%	#DFC	Can you put Pepsi in Cup-a-Noodles?”
June 16, 2023 15:02	Eighteen: 32 Hours, 36 Minutes	38.1%	#DFC	That would be great if we had internet,” Sam said. “Or electricity.”
June 16, 2023 14:42	Eighteen: 32 Hours, 36 Minutes	37.8%	#DFC	The seventh was better, a mixed load, pallets of shrimp-flavored Cup-a-Noodles, chicken-flavored ramen, coffee filters and coffee makers, and boxes of mixed teas. “I wish I’d had some of those noodles,” Toto said wistfully. “It would have been nice to have noodles.” “Noodles are fine,” Sam agreed.
June 16, 2023 14:37	Seventeen: 33 Hours, 14 Minutes	37.1%	#DFC	“They knew something was going on with kids in Perdido Beach.”
June 16, 2023 14:37	Seventeen: 33 Hours, 14 Minutes	36.8%	#DFC	He’s still talking to Spider-Man,” Dekka pointed out. “He’s nuts.” “Yeah, well, we’re all a little nuts, Dekka,” Sam said. “No, he’s not nuts, the Sam boy,” Toto said and he shook his head back and forth.
June 16, 2023 14:36	Seventeen: 33 Hours, 14 Minutes	36.6%	#DFC	She could walk through walls
June 16, 2023 13:36	Sixteen: 33 Hours, 40 Minutes	34.4%	#DFC	“You think I’m so messed up, it will be easy to get into my pants, is that it? I’m an easy target?”
June 16, 2023 13:31	Sixteen: 33 Hours, 40 Minutes	32.4%	#DFC	Which was what he was. What he’d always been.
June 15, 2023 23:13	Fifteen: 37 Hours, 15 Minutes	31.4%	#DFC	“I won’t let it happen, Dekka. I swear it.”
June 15, 2023 23:13	Fifteen: 37 Hours, 15 Minutes	31.4%	#DFC	Epidemic. The so-called hospital was full. All through the morning, feverish, coughing kids had dragged themselves to the hospital
June 15, 2023 23:12	Fifteen: 37 Hours, 15 Minutes	31.2%	#DFC	Don’t let it happen, Sam.” “It’s not going to, Dekka.”
June 15, 2023 23:11	Fifteen: 37 Hours, 15 Minutes	31.1%	#DFC	dark drop hit her bare shoulder. A second drop hit her jeans. Other drops fell around her.
June 15, 2023 23:02	Fourteen: 37 Hours, 48 Minutes	28.8%	#DFC	she was now in the business of trying to understand this sickness.
June 15, 2023 22:29	Twelve: 48 Hours, 54 Minutes	24.7%	#DFC	“Kill me, Bright Hands.”
June 15, 2023 22:28	Twelve: 48 Hours, 54 Minutes	24.5%	#DFC	“I Pack Leader,” the coyote said in its strangled, weird voice.
June 15, 2023 22:28	Twelve: 48 Hours, 54 Minutes	24.4%	#DFC	“The worst that happens is Brianna says, ‘No way, I’m not gay.’”
June 15, 2023 22:26	Twelve: 48 Hours, 54 Minutes	23.6%	#DFC	Drake had a list in his head. Sam. Caine. Dekka. Brianna. They would die first. As quickly as Drake could kill them.
June 15, 2023 22:25	Eleven: 50 Hours, 21 Minutes	23.0%	#DFC	Sam shot them, you know, with his light. But they’re like, reflective or whatever. Anyway, it didn’t kill them.”
June 15, 2023 22:25	Eleven: 50 Hours, 21 Minutes	22.9%	#DFC	It was these . . . these things. They came crawling up out of him and were eating him, oh God, I mean, it was like . . . I mean he was crying and Dekka prayed with him and he tried to fry his own brain just like he did with Harry only I guess it didn’t work, I guess he couldn’t do it, so Sam . . .” She swallowed. “Anyone have some water?”
June 15, 2023 15:06	Ten: 52 Hours, 37 Minutes	21.1%	#DFC	The things that had been inside him were still there.
June 15, 2023 15:05	Ten: 52 Hours, 37 Minutes	20.8%	#DFC	“It’s ’cause I killed Harry. God has to punish me. I tried to be good but I’m bad.”
June 15, 2023 15:05	Ten: 52 Hours, 37 Minutes	20.8%	#DFC	“Can the angels find me here so I can go to heaven?”
June 15, 2023 15:05	Ten: 52 Hours, 37 Minutes	20.6%	#DFC	The side of his head was partly gone. A creature, like some monstrous melding of insect and eel, protruded from Hunter’s shoulder and as they stood there rooted in horror it took a vicious bite of Hunter’s flesh.
June 15, 2023 15:05	Ten: 52 Hours, 37 Minutes	20.3%	#DFC	She grabbed his butt, he yelled, “Hey!” and she bounced away innocently.
June 15, 2023 15:04	Ten: 52 Hours, 37 Minutes	20.2%	#DFC	“Sam, can I shoot her now?” Dekka asked. “Or is it too soon?” “Wait until we’re over the ridge,” Sam said. “It’ll muffle the sound.”
June 15, 2023 15:01	Nine: 54 Hours, 9 Minutes	19.3%	#DFC	Hunter pressed both palms against his head.
June 15, 2023 15:01	Nine: 54 Hours, 9 Minutes	19.1%	#DFC	Like something inside him.
June 15, 2023 14:59	Nine: 54 Hours, 9 Minutes	18.7%	#DFC	“You know, Sam, you’re nice. And so very, very hot,” Taylor said. “But you’re not really much fun.”
June 15, 2023 14:54	Eight: 54 Hours, 21 Minutes	18.1%	#DFC	“So no moonlight.” “Are you retarded?” “Sunrise? I could get up early.” “Go away.” “Sunset tomorrow?”
June 15, 2023 14:54	Eight: 54 Hours, 21 Minutes	17.9%	#DFC	“I’m going to refuse to do puberty,” Virtue grumbled. “It makes you stupid.”
June 15, 2023 14:50	Eight: 54 Hours, 21 Minutes	17.0%	#DFC	Down in the dark basement a long, reddish tentacle reached for the gun. Orc turned and ran.
June 15, 2023 14:44	Pete	15.2%	#DFC	“If he died. I don’t know. I do not know.”
June 15, 2023 14:42	Seven: 60 Hours, 30 Minutes	14.2%	#DFC	“Horrible, messed-up, evil people. But I want to change. I want us both to change.”
June 15, 2023 14:41	Seven: 60 Hours, 30 Minutes	14.1%	#DFC	“Your choice, Caine. You can have me. Or you can try to take over the world. Not both. Because I’m not going to be part of that anymore. I can’t. So it’s up to you.”
June 15, 2023 14:41	Seven: 60 Hours, 30 Minutes	13.9%	#DFC	Starving boys lusted after food, not after girls.
June 15, 2023 14:39	Six: 61 Hours, 26 Minutes	13.2%	#DFC	“There’s a type of wasp,” Astrid said. “That’s why I asked him about wasps. It lays its eggs inside a caterpillar. The eggs hatch. The larvae then eat the living caterpillar from the inside out.”
June 15, 2023 14:35	Five: 62 Hours, 18 Minutes	11.4%	#DFC	She wasn’t that sure she should be fixing anyone dumb enough to try and slit his wrist
June 15, 2023 14:02	Five: 62 Hours, 18 Minutes	10.9%	#DFC	You’re learning how to manipulate people.”
June 15, 2023 14:02	Five: 62 Hours, 18 Minutes	10.6%	#DFC	“You want to hire me to explore this lake.” “Yes.” Sam looked around at the sand. “Well, as you can see, I’m very busy.”
June 15, 2023 13:59	Five: 62 Hours, 18 Minutes	9.9%	#DFC	“As long as they do their work they can flip me off all they like,” Albert said.
June 15, 2023 13:58	Five: 62 Hours, 18 Minutes	9.7%	#DFC	“I hired you to dig a hole, not play around,” Albert said. “It’s hard,” one said. “It keeps filling up.” “I know it’s hard. It won’t get any easier. And if you want to eat, you work.”
June 15, 2023 13:58	Five: 62 Hours, 18 Minutes	9.6%	#DFC	The principle was simple enough: boil salt water, let the steam rise into a pipe, then cool the steam. What dribbled out of the end would be drinkable water. Easy in theory. Almost impossible to do practically. Especially now that some fool had knocked it over.
June 15, 2023 13:56	Five: 62 Hours, 18 Minutes	9.4%	#DFC	“If you’re thirsty, stop crying,” Albert snapped. “What do you think tears are made of?”
June 15, 2023 01:33	Four: 63 Hours, 41 Minutes	9.0%	#DFC	She lay there, facedown. Coughing wracked her chest. But it was not yet the superhuman coughs that had killed Jennifer H. Not yet.
June 15, 2023 01:27	Four: 63 Hours, 41 Minutes	7.8%	#DFC	There might still be drugs in the bathroom.
June 15, 2023 01:22	Three: 72 Hours, 3 Minutes	7.2%	#DFC	“Brittney Pig,” Drake slurred as his cruel mouth melted and twisted and became the braces-toothed mouth of his most intimate enemy.
June 15, 2023 01:21	Three: 72 Hours, 3 Minutes	6.7%	#DFC	Brittney had died. Drake had died. And then, neither of them was dead, and both somehow were connected in a nightmare world where dirt filled their mouths and ears and held them pinned.
June 15, 2023 01:18	Three: 72 Hours, 3 Minutes	6.3%	#DFC	Astrid couldn’t be that person. She had to put herself back together. She had to take time to rebuild herself.
June 15, 2023 01:17	Three: 72 Hours, 3 Minutes	6.1%	#DFC	She wanted to be in his arms. She wanted to kiss him. And maybe more. Maybe a lot more.
June 15, 2023 01:17	Three: 72 Hours, 3 Minutes	6.1%	#DFC	How could Sam not realize that if they crossed that line it would be one more sin? One more abandonment of her faith. One more surrender to weakness.
June 15, 2023 01:14	Three: 72 Hours, 3 Minutes	6.0%	#DFC	She wouldn’t have been caught dead reading some silly teen romance. Back then she’d have read a classic, or some work of great literary merit. Or history.
June 15, 2023 01:13	Two: 72 Hours, 4 Minutes	5.8%	#DFC	The insect mouthparts gnashed, chewing on a bloody chunk of the lion.
June 15, 2023 01:09	Two: 72 Hours, 4 Minutes	5.5%	#DFC	It had started out as a bump, a swelling. But then the skin had split apart and gnashing insect mouthparts had been revealed. Like a spider. Or a bug. Like the bugs that crawled on Hunter as he slept.
June 15, 2023 01:04	Two: 72 Hours, 4 Minutes	5.2%	#DFC	He was Hunter the hunter. For the kids.
June 15, 2023 00:50	Two: 72 Hours, 4 Minutes	4.9%	#DFC	, black in the eerie light, ran from her mouth and ears.
June 15, 2023 00:50	Two: 72 Hours, 4 Minutes	4.8%	#DFC	She looked at it, unable to make sense of it. It looked like a piece of raw meat. It felt like chicken ski
June 15, 2023 00:46	Two: 72 Hours, 4 Minutes	4.3%	#FFB	they all had the same headache, the same sore muscles, and the same hacking cough.
June 15, 2023 00:45	Two: 72 Hours, 4 Minutes	4.2%	#FFB	“You tried, didn’t you? You snuck in on her and she caught you.”
June 15, 2023 00:35	Two: 72 Hours, 4 Minutes	4.0%	#FFB	He’d just turned ten.
June 15, 2023 00:35	Two: 72 Hours, 4 Minutes	4.0%	#FFB	“If you want to see naked girls, Bug, why don’t you creep up on Penny?”
June 14, 2023 23:21	Two: 72 Hours, 4 Minutes	3.9%	#FFB	“Aren’t you a little young to be a pervert?”
June 14, 2023 23:17	Two: 72 Hours, 4 Minutes	3.8%	#FFB	Starvation. It had driven her to eat human flesh. She was a cannibal.
June 14, 2023 23:05	One: 72 Hours, 7 Minutes	2.6%	#FFB	Should have. Should have. Should have . . .
June 14, 2023 22:59	One: 72 Hours, 7 Minutes	2.1%	#FFB	“That’s not why you won’t sleep with me,” Sam said. “You won’t do it because you think it would mean giving up control. And you are all about control, Astrid.”
June 14, 2023 22:58	Pete	1.8%	#FFB	His body was demanding his attention, distracting him from his game of balancing on the sheet of glass.

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Date	Activity	Details	Library
June 14, 2023 22:52	Tagged	🧾	York County Libraries
June 14, 2023 22:52	Borrowed		York County Libraries