Theme Thursday -- Facial Parts -- The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld

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*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
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This week's theme is facial parts.

His skin was much less white than hers -- or perhaps simply much dirtier -- but his brown eyes shared a similar severity, equally intelligent but more watchful than the girl's, less distracted.  Younger had the feeling the boy saw everything.

~page 69, The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld

This was an incredibly action-packed novel -- the kind where, just 20 or 30 pages in, you are already glad that you are that you aren't one of the main characters!  I really enjoyed learning more about 1920 New York -- Rubenfeld bases his story on the true-to-life Wall Street bombing of September 1920 and while the main characters and events are invented, much of the peripheral people and details are historically accurate.  The author wrote his undergrad thesis on Sigmund Freud.   The book takes its title from Freud's work and Freud himself shows up as he attempts to help the boy described in this quote.  One last little tidbit -- do you know the origin of the word "lobbyist"?  Read this book and you will.  :)