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Instantly in love. This book is so cup filling and feels like a beautiful meditation on nature and our connection to it.

So excited about this book. Right away it felt like a breath of fresh air and just what I need.

This book just makes me so happy. Third read in four years. Two pages in and I’m chuckling. (Chuckling is a weird word, isn’t it?)

Overdue for something light. So far I like the writing style.

One of my favorite times of the year — a new Rose book!

Fascinating, thought-provoking and entertaining so far. I am loving the insight into how other cultures face death and how it’s changed over time.

Interesting so far but I could really do without Farrow’s weirdly dramatic reading of quotes in the audiobook narration.

Listened to several disappointing books in 2019, so I’m especially happy to kick off 2020 with the kind of book (early-20th-century-girl-discovers-life-historical-fiction type) that makes me happy. Let’s see where it goes!

I’ve hardly started and am so disturbed yet intrigued by the concept of people no longer reading books or thinking they’re capable of it but being fine with it as a trade off to all the benefits of the internet. Going to try to keep an open mind!

"...people like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice."

Revisiting an old favorite from my book shelf for the season!

So many great tidbits and things to underline.
This summary of happiness jumped out at me: "Happiness is the joy you find on hundreds of forgettable Wednesdays." — Tim Urban

Just over an hour into listening and I've teared up multiple times. Her candor is giving me the catharsis I didn't know I still needed a year-and-a-half after the election.

“He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.”

Not going to work as an audiobook. Too much pausing and rewinding!

I love Rainbow Rowell's writing so much. Always clever and creative but relatable.

I want to write like Nathan Hill, and I wish Ari Fliakos narrated all the books I listen to!

I think the fact that this book is written in first person as if it's a memoir makes me really wish it was a memoir. I'm really enjoying the story, but also finding myself thinking "what's the point?" since it's a novel but feels so much like it's a woman's real story.