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Got a signed copy at the Toronto launch and I'm so excited to get into this! John Green answered a bunch of questions at the launch and was really so gracious and lovely and expressed a lot of beautiful sentiments about making art which really reached and resonated with me even though I had thee worst seats in the house. He was kind of a childhood hero to me so I was really giddy lmao

Not really enjoying this

so beautifully written

Ok wow

this is a good book but I feel like the first half especially suffers from strange pacing. There's plot threads that could've been explored even further that r just cut off and idk if we're circling back in the last ten percent of the book. Maybe my expectations were a tad too high. for me to enjoy it fully

“An “I love you” that is out in the world unanswered bedevils a space, like the ghost of a whore in Mississippi. It’s lonely, then miserable, then angry. My words, left hanging, swung all over our freshly painted apartment...It was terrible. Bobo never said anything about it, but sometimes he slapped his neck, then examined his palm, mystified that there was nothing there.' ''

Olive tree bed chapter making me tear up at 5:57 am

reading this while listening to Sarah Kinsley was such a good idea

well