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A review by bethany6788
Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
I don’t have the words to express exactly what Jeff Zentner’s books mean to me, but I will try my hardest and truly, I’d love to meet him someday so I can tell him in person how much his books have changed my life. I have one book left on his backlist and I am planning to read it before Colton comes out in a couple weeks.
*spoilers below*
I want to protect Carver with my whole heart and soul. The goodbye days concept was harrowing and emotional and so raw. My heart just broke for him. He lost his best friends in a horrific, tragic accident and he believes he is at fault.. along with many others.
I am failing to come up with the right words, so I’m going to use quotes from the book.
“I sometimes look at my bookshelf now and think about how someday I’m going to die without ever reading a lot of the books there. And one might be life-changingly good and I’ll never know.”
“No one knows how anybody lives through anything. People just do.”
“Pareidolia…it’s when your mind sees a pattern you recognize where there isn’t one.”
“Our memories of our loved ones are the pearl that we form around the grain of grief that causes us pain.”
“For the most part, you don’t hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you in a million quiet and perfect ways from being alone.”
“I have fallen in love with her quietly. A movement evading my notice. The sun crossing the sky. It crept into my heart, like vines overgrowing a stone wall.”
“The night air tastes like chilled apple cider and the sky breathes with stars.”
“I’m really lonely…I want to be happy again before I die. That’s all I want.”
“You have a love heart, separate from your grieving heart, or your guilt heart, or your fear heart. All can be individually broken in their own way.”
“I tell him I hope.”
Thank you @jeffzentner for this gorgeous story. I’ll never forget it. Carver will be in my heart.
*spoilers below*
I want to protect Carver with my whole heart and soul. The goodbye days concept was harrowing and emotional and so raw. My heart just broke for him. He lost his best friends in a horrific, tragic accident and he believes he is at fault.. along with many others.
I am failing to come up with the right words, so I’m going to use quotes from the book.
“I sometimes look at my bookshelf now and think about how someday I’m going to die without ever reading a lot of the books there. And one might be life-changingly good and I’ll never know.”
“No one knows how anybody lives through anything. People just do.”
“Pareidolia…it’s when your mind sees a pattern you recognize where there isn’t one.”
“Our memories of our loved ones are the pearl that we form around the grain of grief that causes us pain.”
“For the most part, you don’t hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you in a million quiet and perfect ways from being alone.”
“I have fallen in love with her quietly. A movement evading my notice. The sun crossing the sky. It crept into my heart, like vines overgrowing a stone wall.”
“The night air tastes like chilled apple cider and the sky breathes with stars.”
“I’m really lonely…I want to be happy again before I die. That’s all I want.”
“You have a love heart, separate from your grieving heart, or your guilt heart, or your fear heart. All can be individually broken in their own way.”
“I tell him I hope.”
Thank you @jeffzentner for this gorgeous story. I’ll never forget it. Carver will be in my heart.