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** spoiler alert ** "We have been cooped up together for two happily-ever-after years. Recently we noted that we were beginning to finish each other's sentences. Pretty soon we may start speaking our own language, like kids raised by wolves." I found that section rather surprising. Is this author that unaware of what people-who-spend-time-together do, or ... what? That's one of my favorite things about marriage. We know each other. And it's a favorite part of other relationships, too. When a friend and I start singing the same song at the same time, or start a quote from FRIENDS that we don't even need to finish, we know exactly what the other person is thinking. We know each other. And that's a good thing. Maybe, though, what she's really saying, even in the beginning of the book without acknowledging it yet, that she wants a child. Because that's where this is going. Toward a baby girl from China. But I'm getting ahead of myself. There's some great writing in this. I found myself tearing up so many times that I stopped tracking where. Her mother gets sick and there is just some great stuff in there, even if I don't have the relationship with my mother that she has with hers. I did think this was interesting, though, and it's the part that earned the "made me think" shelf tag here on Goodreads: She said she's done with GBS. Just ... done. "Nothing more to say. It's time to go forward. That's me, I'm a moving-forward kind of person." "Yes, you are," I said, because I believe her. Or I want to. And I'm a here-and-now kind of person. Or I'm trying to be. My mother is a help. A mother's example is a kind of permission. A mother's example gets hardwired into you. My mother's example, I think, virtually assured that I wouldn't end up an emotional lingerer, a pouter, a moper. She could write comedy - she has these quick comments like "Alex looks at me with the uncomfortable look you reserve for, say, a lunatic." That made me giggle (especially in context). Plus, she has figured out humans... This is the sort of thing a parent sees that helps her make the determination that her child is the most brilliant creature to set foot on this Earth -- a tendency that all new parents seem to have, no matter what else they are bringing to the table in terms of projection. This is a beautifully written sort of random, stream of consciousness book that is the book equivalent of "easy on the eyes". It just went down easily, and was a good book for right now. And also? Another book that makes me want to garden. Edited to add that I am still confused (4 days later) about something. I'm not 100% sure, but I am mostly sure, that she never said her brother's name in this book. The sisters are all named, but she (as far as I remember and noticed at the time) only ever refers to her brother as "my brother". That's weird.

2020-08-28 01:36