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Oh I am into this.

Wow is that a fantastic book. Damn.

…is gorgeous and measured and heartbreaking so far.

Loving it so far. Lincoln’s chapter is perfect.

How have I never read Calvino before? I love these tiny little, intense, funny, musing tales.

This book is frigging GORGEOUS.

Good good good. Not stylistically unlike Normal People or Exciting Times (dry, sharp, meandering) but somehow more meaningful less self-involved.

I’m, this book is gooooood. Quietly brilliant, I think. Wow.

“But there are no grown-ups, that’s what you must grow up to know fully; your parents were just two more bodies experiencing landscape and weather, trying to make sense by vibrating columns of air...”

I was sort of reading this book begrudgingly, but wow am I impressed. There’s an almost Franzenian quality to how far Lerner let’s his sentences and digressions unspool, but all to a greater purpose. A kind of loving, exhausted picture-in-pieces of how broken and misled and guilty and self-blind we all are. Not a fun read, per se, but (I repeat) wow. Impressed.

...is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Dark and horrible but so heartrendingly human and pure. The writing itself glorious. Ungentle but true.

I am enjoying, occasionally moved, and throughly befuddled by The Friend.

This book, which I bought largely because I have a fascination with the setting (North Berwick, Scotland), is surprising me again and again. The most fascinating story line as of the book’s opening is dwindling, while the least interesting storyline is bursting and tangly and rich. I’m caught.

Hilary Mantel is brilliant brilliant brilliant. As good as Wolf Hall. Better than BUTB. Brilliance leaching like sunlight of nearly every page.

Gorgeous gorgeous writing. Deep slices of truth. How have I never read this before?

This book is already moving and emotional and clearly, gobsmackingly brilliant. Wow.

I love the women in this novel so much

Light, bright, dark, thick, taut, funny, sparkling smart, tripping along, unspooling...

...mesmerizing, so far...

Better than anticipated. Easy pacing, but rich with characters and thinking (Mrs Treat and her tarantulas!) that are giving my heart joy.