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Now I’m getting back into it though. Flashing back to how Julia and Ben’s relationship got started has my interest back and Julia is seeming a tiny bit more relatable and less self destructive

35-50% was an absolute slog. I love love love Claire Lombardo’s writing style, but Julia is such a downer… her persistent pessimism and bent on choosing her own unhappiness. I definitely didn’t feel like picking this book up for a while, had to just kinda keep forcing myself to do it.

highly recommend reading this book on an airplane while listening to Ravel

this is good but damn is it depressing to watch this woman’s life and decisions unfold

need something lighthearted to offset Same As Is Ever Was so here we are

i am slowly becoming more and more fed up with julia while simultaneously becoming more and more into this book and i’m not totally sure how that’s possible but here we are

how have I never read this before, and also, it’s giving George Saunders vibes (or rather I guess George Saunders has Ray Bradbury vibes)

I’m officially into this book. It took some time — there are sooooo many characters / voices to get used to. But now this family is my family and i love them all with the exception of Violet who for now I still find annoying

The constant — I mean — sure — interruptions and dashes are mildly getting on my nerves. But on the whole this family is endearing itself to me. Having Jonah’s perspective gives us a really nice outsider look at the family. I love Wendy (absolute favorite for now) and Marilyn, I find Violet kinda annoying, lots of love for David, and Liz — come on girl, drop Ryan

what kind of crack is in this book I can’t stop reading it

Love Emma
Hate rudolf you slimy little man
All the empathy for poor naive Charles

I cannot stop reading this. It’s addictive

poor Charles 😭 but obsessed with beautiful melancholic Emma

as a raging hypochondriac this is the last kind of book I ever thought I would read but it is great so far

very much into Emma’s ennui

wow so many perspectives already. I don’t know where we’re at half the time but I love it

So Xander is obviously a psychopath but honestly I’m not rooting for anyone in this story?? I’d be pretty pissed too if my wife was clearly in love with her best friend but denying it with her whole chest… Benny and Joy are kind of insufferable in their inability to communicate

The narcolepsy storyline is well done