A story of misspent youth, literary longing and the choices - both good and bad - we all make in life. (dailyfreebooks.com)
RANGEL HAD REMEMBERED from a brief period of misspent youth how you did it, how you had to walk backwards, facing the oncoming traffic, your right thumb out, giving it a slight waggle every now and then. (slaw.ca)
The library was closing in nine minutes, and for about the last half hour I had experienced that hollow sensation I had grown to know so well, the one that always accompanied the awareness of another day lost in Palo Alto, another afternoon misspent in Pasadena, another evening busted and shot in Los Angeles. (si.com)