A review by howifeelaboutbooks
The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait by Blake Bailey

2.0

It took me a long time to get through this one. It was interesting and well-written, but kind of hard to read at times. It got pretty depressing. When I finished, I wasn’t sure what to do with all I had read. I thought there was going to be some sort of revelation or change, but it was kind of just… done. Which is real life, and the book was about real life, but I felt like it was missing something, or I was missing something from reading it.