A few years ago I read an entire book before realizing I had already read it. I looked back at my Goodreads read list and realized I had no memory of about half of the books on there. So I built a new habit – (almost) every time I finish a book, I word-vomit my thoughts and emotions into a note on my phone. Sometimes they’re brief, sometimes they’re long-longwinded, sometimes they just ramble…and now I’m putting them here. Please enjoy the madness.
This book. There were just so many times that the raw emotions she described made me say “oh my god, yes!” Especially with the way Tess pines for Jake. There was so much honesty and it really felt like an embodiment of your early 20s the way you can be self aware and horribly naive but know you are and still charge forward anyway. The knowledge of your youthful power. The way she regarded the older people around her. I loved every bit of it Stephanie Danler just writes the most beautiful, luscious sentences too.