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See allThis book was such a wild ride I'm still not sure what to think of it. The ending confused me so I looked the references up, and after that I loved it. I've decided I will not only read a Douglas Adams book, because they are such hard reads that don't hook me fast enough. I ended up in a book slump (not reading cause i did in fact keep reading for months, just no the book)
I thought I wouldn't enjoy this book because of the reviews, but I liked Jacaranda a lot, and I was rooting for her at the end.
Here are some quotes from the book that stood out to me while reading.
“The more someone liked her writing, the fewer clothes she felt she had on”
“Sometimes when you have had a little too much to drink, people who don't know how wonderful you are might get the wrong impression” — “You're fun when you're drunk. The life of the party”
“Jacaranda's face mirrored, over and over in the shop windows, how vulnerable and foreign she was.”
“Those skies had been done as well as they ever could be. All the art she'd ever done was but a thimbleful of color compared to one inch of this Matisse...Picasso had been through the sky, come out the other end, dug to China with a child's shovel, and sen opposite skies...while Matisse just sat at home. And somehow his skies were bluer.”