Remember Me Like This: A Novel | 
bailedListening to the audio and I‘m bailing on chapter 18. It feels like it‘s trying to move somewhere but it‘s sooooooo slow because it‘s overwritten. I‘d like to know what happens in the end but not enough to wade thru. Is this supposed to be a quasi literary thriller? If so, the pacing is off.
Enjoying a lazy, blissful Saturday night at home, snuggled down and browsing back and forth between several books.
pickA terrific novel of human psychology, this starts with Justin Campbell missing for the past 4.5 years, since age 11. Events occur that impact his family and we watch each person‘s reactions as many things remain unsaid between them. This is a strong exploration of family and relationships. I would suggest against reading the description—the less you know, the better with this one.
I heard Bret at a writers' festival in Iowa this fall. He said the goal of a writer is to make the reader want something. Then . . . . . make them wait for it. Wow. That is exactly what he does. I normally avoid books about missing children (usually just too sad) but this one is different. So glad I read it. No wonder he is director of creative writing at Harvard. Lucky students.
"The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all." P.211
