As I continue to read through Nineteen Minutes it amazes me how the story trudges onward. Every passage seems to bring some new layer to the story. Sometimes you see it coming and other times, like the suicide of one of the victim’s mothers, it hits you in the face and you are like: Did that really just happen?

On the ongoing suicide note as section preface reading further has only enhanced my opinion that it is Josie’s. The one where it talks about trying to be popular really makes me thinks it’s hers because Peter never really tried to be popular. He just didn’t want to be hated.

And finally for this lovely evening, I find it astounding the utter ability of those closest to the victims to settle right back into the way they lived before the death of their friends. In this I mean not to say their routines but rather the way they treat others. If you’ve read the section you know I’m mostly talking about Drew. Leave it to him to let himself think that the girl whose boyfriend just died may want him because of course he is god almighty and what was even more appaling was when he shot the spitball at the kid at lunch. Dude wake up! Peter didn’t kill kids because they were nice to him—-get a grip and stop being a complete self-centered prick.

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