Heart the Lover
Everyone and their mother have been mentioning this book this year. I was in a reading slump, and it sounded like a cute, simple story.
I’ve noticed that about people who had stable childhoods. They like to create their own problems.
Starting in her senior year of collage, the narrator tells the story of the guys she met and gets entangled with. It's a story of being young and in love, and what comes after. With a lot of literary references, which I have a soft spot for.
‘You know how you can remember exactly when and where you read certain books? A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it. And it preserves it, like a time capsule.’
It's an absorbing read. For a few days I felt like I was there, at campus, and I had to force myself to put the book down when it got late. Other reviews have commented that it's sentimental. And it absolutely is. If it's not your vibe, don't read it.
As soon as his voice is gone I have that feeling I often have when I’m away from my family, like they are moving farther and farther away from me, beginning to flicker faintly as distant stars and I will never ever reach them again. It feels like a premonition of the fact that someday, one by one, we will be separated from each other forever.
I was not expecting to ugly cry at the end, but here we are. If you love to disappeare in a story, that turns quite sad, it's worth your time.
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