Just read the first of many short stories in about 10 minutes. LOVE the writing style and the unforgivable yet somehow relatable characters. The realism is wonderful and disturbing.

"Envy radiates from them, I can smell it, faint wisps of acid, mingled with their perfume."... does anyone else notice this narrator's super human sense of smell?! She can smell EVERYTHING it seems.

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

I'm about 45 pages in.... having a slow start getting into but I'm starting to mesh with its vibe. Here's to hoping I can breeze through from here.

Lovely. I'm so happy I finally picked this one up. It's magical and in many ways better than the movie (duh) but it didn't change how I feel about the movie at all. This will be one to reread.

"Refusing to act against your sound inclination is a profound ACTION, not simply a reaction to something external. And to claim the benefits that come from advocating for the person you truly are as opposed to the one you think you're supposed to be, you must face your own reality no matter how it feels or what its implications may be. "

"Things may be marginally different now, but, even if there is something she wants more than children, that is no reason for a woman to remain childless. Any normal woman, it is understood, wants--and should want--both. "

Been thinking about reading this for awhile now. Let's do it.

"The greatest desire of the tormented writer is to be read the way the young woman is reading. He starts writing a novel as he thinks the productive writer would write it. Meanwhile the greatest desire of the productive writer is to be read the way that young woman is reading; he starts writing a novel as he thinks the tormented writer would write it."

Cozy rainy day reading. Should be finishing up this number today.