Status Updates From The Things They Carried

i have been loving this so far. not rushing through it. it’s a great book to pick up and put down. story telling tim o’brien has such a gift at making you think about your own stories. how do we tell our own stories of war. what do we imagine, what’s real when it all is a memory.

he’s normalized how crazy i’ve felt in my darkest moments. outstanding writing.

Jesus christ, it’s against the rules, Sanders said. Against human nature. This elaborate story, you can’t say, hey by the way I don’t know the ending. I mean you go certain obligations.

what you have to do, sanders said is trust your own story. get the hell out of the way and let it tell itself.