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4.54 AVERAGE
4.54 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
medium-paced
Book tok over hyped it and while I she’d a small tear at the end, this was a solid 3. Also, I hated Barbara, worst mother and sister
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
WHAT THE HELL
I’m in pain
Wuh luh wuh luh but at what cost
Reminded me of my besties Celia & Evelyn
I NEVER NEEDED AN EPILOGUE SO BAD.
started of as a story with a lot of ppl I didn’t know, a lot things happening at the start with and to people I had no connection to. Then progressed in learning about their lives, friendships. About Joan and her lovely Niece. The first 130 pages I was confused, still wondering about who the love story was going to be, hoping it was going to be a resemblance like what Evelyn and Celia had. And wuh luh wuh luh story. I so thank Taylor Jenkins Reid for giving me that. But once again. At what cost. Why do we always have to suffer. I hate that they couldn’t just walk out together and scream they loved each other.
Joan is so lovely and describes things so well. Her explanation of God is something I will always remember.
The tension of trying to figure out what was gonna happen, Who was gonna live. THE PAIN of all of it. I need a minute, I need so many more. I need an epilogue, I need more and more and more.
Vanessa stole my heart. How she had one dream but falls in love, so captivating and painful and wonderful and sweet. And she finds a new dream, a person who she would so easily give up that dream for. I love you, I love this, I love them.
This woman, this writer, she has a way to grab my heart and make it grow, make it love all these beautifully flawed and amazing people she writes about. And then she breaks that grown heart into thousands and thousands of pieces and lastly slowly puts it back together. Something only she can do. Something only her books, her stories, her characters can do. I will forever love the story of Joan and Vanessa as I will the story of Evelyn and Celia.
Taylor Jenkins Reid the woman you are.
SPOILER:
“Do you know why I kept saying the best song was ‘space oddity?’
‘Because of your favourite part’
‘When he says, Tell my wife I love her very much…’ Vanessa says.
And then he says, ‘she knows’ Joan says.
‘Yeah’ Vanessa says ‘That’s it. That’s the best part of that song. But do you think she knows? Do you really thing she knows?
‘She knows’ Joan says ‘she absolutely knows’.
‘Okay’ Vanessa says. ‘I can live with that.’ “
“But then, in a shock, Joan feels the most perfect peace overtake her.
What a gift. To have known Vanessa, and to have loved her. The way the universe had developed - the way god itself unfolded - was that Vanessa had been here for thirty-seven years.
But Joan had been given four of them.
She had been given so much of Vanessa when so few understood her at all. She had been given that face to sketch for the rest of her life. To spend her days trying and failing to capture her hair. In this one moment of brilliant clarity- a clarity Joan knows she will lose her grasp on within seconds, and have to fight like hell for years to come back to - Joan understands that God gave her something spectacular. A love, and a life, beyond the confines of her imagination.
Small, slight, unimportant Joan. Just one person of five billion, on a small planet orbiting a small star, in a humble galaxy, one of billions of galaxies. Joan is so insignificant and yet, look what God had given her. look at all that God had given her. Look at what no one will ever be able to take away.”
And then:
“Maybe they had not asked for too much. Maybe they would get everything they wanted”
I’m in pain
Wuh luh wuh luh but at what cost
Reminded me of my besties Celia & Evelyn
I NEVER NEEDED AN EPILOGUE SO BAD.
started of as a story with a lot of ppl I didn’t know, a lot things happening at the start with and to people I had no connection to. Then progressed in learning about their lives, friendships. About Joan and her lovely Niece. The first 130 pages I was confused, still wondering about who the love story was going to be, hoping it was going to be a resemblance like what Evelyn and Celia had. And wuh luh wuh luh story. I so thank Taylor Jenkins Reid for giving me that. But once again. At what cost. Why do we always have to suffer. I hate that they couldn’t just walk out together and scream they loved each other.
Joan is so lovely and describes things so well. Her explanation of God is something I will always remember.
The tension of trying to figure out what was gonna happen, Who was gonna live. THE PAIN of all of it. I need a minute, I need so many more. I need an epilogue, I need more and more and more.
Vanessa stole my heart. How she had one dream but falls in love, so captivating and painful and wonderful and sweet. And she finds a new dream, a person who she would so easily give up that dream for. I love you, I love this, I love them.
This woman, this writer, she has a way to grab my heart and make it grow, make it love all these beautifully flawed and amazing people she writes about. And then she breaks that grown heart into thousands and thousands of pieces and lastly slowly puts it back together. Something only she can do. Something only her books, her stories, her characters can do. I will forever love the story of Joan and Vanessa as I will the story of Evelyn and Celia.
Taylor Jenkins Reid the woman you are.
SPOILER:
“Do you know why I kept saying the best song was ‘space oddity?’
‘Because of your favourite part’
‘When he says, Tell my wife I love her very much…’ Vanessa says.
And then he says, ‘she knows’ Joan says.
‘Yeah’ Vanessa says ‘That’s it. That’s the best part of that song. But do you think she knows? Do you really thing she knows?
‘She knows’ Joan says ‘she absolutely knows’.
‘Okay’ Vanessa says. ‘I can live with that.’ “
“But then, in a shock, Joan feels the most perfect peace overtake her.
What a gift. To have known Vanessa, and to have loved her. The way the universe had developed - the way god itself unfolded - was that Vanessa had been here for thirty-seven years.
But Joan had been given four of them.
She had been given so much of Vanessa when so few understood her at all. She had been given that face to sketch for the rest of her life. To spend her days trying and failing to capture her hair. In this one moment of brilliant clarity- a clarity Joan knows she will lose her grasp on within seconds, and have to fight like hell for years to come back to - Joan understands that God gave her something spectacular. A love, and a life, beyond the confines of her imagination.
Small, slight, unimportant Joan. Just one person of five billion, on a small planet orbiting a small star, in a humble galaxy, one of billions of galaxies. Joan is so insignificant and yet, look what God had given her. look at all that God had given her. Look at what no one will ever be able to take away.”
And then:
“Maybe they had not asked for too much. Maybe they would get everything they wanted”
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced