Status Updates From In the Lake of the Woods

This is truer than anything you could read in a history book. It teaches more than any self-help book. It holds more fact than any non-fiction.

I'm swearing off Goodreads ratings. These people are stupid. It's marvelous how you can read so many books and still refuse to accept elementary truths. Timmy is haunting me and I can't let go of this story.

I read negative reviews of this book and want to scream. DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS REAL? This is a real love story. You can deny it, run from it, say that love is not like this -- that it's easy and faultless -- but your expectations will rob you of your joy. It's an inescapable reality of life, and perhaps that's what makes it so beautiful; you either relate to the story or you lie to yourself.

my goodness

tim o’brien you know how to write a story