Is this true? Unequivicolly? (I couldn't figure out how to highlight it)
Is this true? Unequivicolly? (I couldn't figure out how to highlight it)
I realized not too long ago, I hate YA. And I've always loathed magical realism. Yet, for WHATEVER reason (many, if I dig deep, lbh), I LOVE this book.
I managed to obliterate most of this book with a beer spill on a flight from Los Angeles to Chicago, but I believe Mr. Sedaris would be just fine with that?
Finishing this book feels like having been freed from something terrible. Like prison.
Oh, man. I can nearly pinpoint the point at which I realized this about my own parents. 💔
You guys. This book is so good. You know that feeling when you have a huge stressor in your life and maybe you manage to forget it for a moment? And then BOOM, it crashes back in!? THIS BOOK and these characters' stressors were MY stressors for the whole 6 days during which I was reading it. MAN. I don't have children. But if I did, there's ZERO chance I would handle this with such calm and grace and... GREAT WISDOM which did Rosie and Penn.
I don't know if I'm mentally prepared to dig into this just yet, but I'm gonna give it a go anyway.
Page 199/343: It's not rocking my socks off, but I feel like it's about to.
As The Goldfinch remains on my all-time-favorites list, I thought it high time I read The Secret History. I've heard it's wonderful, I've heard it's awful; I'm looking so forward to forming my own opinion.
I feel badly about it, but I fucking hate this book. I'm on page 343 and cannot WAIT to be done. It's ruining my weekend and my will to live.
Diggggging this monster of a book.
Love. Love love loving this book.
I'm dreading the death of JD's Mamaw. I know it's coming, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN DEAL. I love this book so much. ❤
anxious to see where this goes; hopeful it doesn't wreck me.
same re: life
I'm at the election part. It's like a really uncomfortable art-imitates-life groundhog day.
A bit of a slow start, but I relate to Sam on so many levels thus far.
5++ Stars!!! Even the unlikable characters were loveable in Commonwealth. Ann Patchett has moved up in my Fave Authors List with this one. ❤
Franny gave her sister a tired smile. "Oh, my love," she said. "What do the only children do?"
"We'll never have to know," Caroline said.
❤❤
"Life, Teresa knew by now, was a series of losses. It was other things too, better things, but the losses were as solid and dependable as the earth itself."