The sky is everywhere

The Sky is Everywhere didn't take off for me fully until past the half-way point. When Lennie was specifically dealing with or speaking or writing about her grief over the loss of her sister, the story was great, but I found myself less into the love triangle angle, or at least one participant in the triangle. Lennie was still making her decisions there based on her sorrow, but I found myself not having an interest in seeing her make the particular mistake she did. As soon as the story narrowed down to one love interest and her interactions with her family, I stopped feeling like some pages were a slog. Jandy Nelson is a really terrific writer, the prose almost poetry, and the poetry something sublime. Adored [b:I'll Give You the Sun 20820994 I'll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1496659336s/20820994.jpg 11409817], and I found myself very happy I'd read this by the end. Fave quotes: “...all of a sudden the breath is kicked out of me and I???m shoved onto the cold hard concrete floor of my life now, because I remember I can???t run home after school and tell Bails about a new boy in band. My sister dies over and over again, all day long.”I've felt that, haven't you? The moment when you remember the conversation with this person is over. That you can't hear their comments or advice ... or laughter. “I start to think about all the things I haven???t said since Bailey died, all the words stowed deep in my heart, in our orange bedroom, all the words in the whole world that aren???t said after someone dies because they are too sad, too enraged, too devastated, too guilty, to come out???all of them begin to course inside me like a lunatic river.”I've also been there. Words left unsaid because the only person I want to say them too is gone!