I almost put this one down after the first chapter. What unlikable people. But I kept going and now I don't want to stop.

I ended up really enjoying this book. Sittenfeld writes longing like no one else. Looking forward to her take on HRC.

Falling in love with the lushness of this world. This is a hundred-pages-at-a-time kind of book.

I thought this book could have been 50 pages longer! Those flashbacks were a beautiful gut punch though, tragic, specific, and universal.

Realized recently that i only really care about endings. This one wrapped up nicely. Perfect? No. The airport sections could have (should have?) been the whole book. But it's ambitious art and i admire that.

I don't love this so far but i admire the risks it's taking. Also why isn't it illustrated? It should be.

Is fascinating to be which authors become classic. This is the second Colman that I've read and she has a Judy Blumesque honesty about children's emotional states but the books don't quite transcend their time. Part of that now defunct genre between MG and YA that was called "teen."

New author bucket list item: retro throwback cover that looks like this.

Books for Molly, books for me.

Pic for when your current read matches your retro bathroom perfectly.

When I was 18 my boss described a book (John Fowles The Magus) to me: "Someone walks up to you and says 'Do you want to play a game?' And you say 'yes' and they say 'but you've already been playing your whole life.'"

I've been looking for that book ever since. I didn't like this book until the fourth section and then I LOVED it. It is bananapants. Better than Cloud Atlas, and it made me like Cloud Atlas even more.

Will I die without ever reading Ulysses to the end? 500 pages in and I have fallen in love with this book.

I'll say this for Mitchell: he has a sense of humor about himself.

New author goal: to be either famous enough or attractive enough to have my author photo take up the whole back cover.