Dept. of Speculation

I think I would like this more if I experienced being an adult a bit longer. I'm only 21 and this book made me feel like I was 13.

The writing confused me at times, and there was a chunk near the end where the story kind of got blurry?
I liked the book, I love reading about the ups and downs of a relationship but the writing really threw me off multiple times.

I'll come back to this when I'm way older!

I just couldn't connect to the characters. I couldn't get involved, I didn't care as much as I should have.

Certain lines are beautiful, or heartbreaking, or both. There are chapters where the book easily reaches five-star quality. Those pieces will stick with me, I'm sure. But the book as a whole will not.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.

book is too devastating to handle