Really enjoying this book! It‘s basically a documentation of what happened on one of the Channel Islands during WW2, except it‘s written in such an engaging format that you don‘t realize you‘re learning history.

What an incredible life this woman has led! Her story adds humanity to all the news headlines about N. Korea.

On chapter five. I love the vivid, descriptive writing so far. It almost reads like poetry.

“You don‘t understand Zelda, and you never will because your life is a series of low risk amusements. Shopping and hair appointments and painting lessons and parties. I seek information about my very existence, my fate, not out of some idle curiosity but because our future depends on this book‘s performance.” - F. Scott to his wife Zelda while awaiting public response to his latest book The Great Gatsby.

Hold on. Zelda the video game is named after Zelda Fitzgerald. Whaaaat?!

“I feel like you and me... we‘re this new creature just hatched into the world and there‘s nobody like us and we have to figure out every little thing fresh.”

Finally got this! 428 pages. I better get started!

Just dug this out to lend to a friend. Love this book!

Attempting to read this at the pool, anyway...

So many fascinating and actionable insights in this book! I loved the change in perspective in approaching everything in our lives not from what or who but when. Some pretty crazy examples in there, too (people being more racist in the afternoon, for one). The inspiration paradox was really interesting: Our best ideas come to us when we are at our worst.