Falling in love with the Gold family & their odd story
It is impossible for me to express how deeply I connected with, felt for, and loved these characters.
The Golds: flawed, full of feeling, f*cked up, and so fleshed out that during the month I was reading this book, they were as real to me as any other real person I know.
Perhaps I am more like Gertie than any of her children, for I am oddly superstitious, too: I somehow thought that by slowing down and not devouring the book at once, I was keeping the Gold children safe, at least for a little while.
There were moments where I was slightly confused about the timeline, or the ages/years as we travel back and forth in time, but once I realized that it doesn't really matter here (gasp!) because it's more of a character study than anything, it was much more enjoyable for me.
I feel grateful for reading this novel at exactly the right time, to re-ignite my love for stories.
“In a way, I see religion as a pinnacle of human achievement. In inventing God, we’ve developed the ability to consider our own straits—and we’ve equipped Him with the kind of handy loopholes that enable us to believe we only have so much control. The truth is that most people enjoy a certain level of impotence. But I think we do have control—so much that it scares us to death. As a species, God might be the greatest gift we’ve ever given ourselves. The gift of sanity.”
The Golds: flawed, full of feeling, f*cked up, and so fleshed out that during the month I was reading this book, they were as real to me as any other real person I know.
Perhaps I am more like Gertie than any of her children, for I am oddly superstitious, too: I somehow thought that by slowing down and not devouring the book at once, I was keeping the Gold children safe, at least for a little while.
There were moments where I was slightly confused about the timeline, or the ages/years as we travel back and forth in time, but once I realized that it doesn't really matter here (gasp!) because it's more of a character study than anything, it was much more enjoyable for me.
I feel grateful for reading this novel at exactly the right time, to re-ignite my love for stories.
“In a way, I see religion as a pinnacle of human achievement. In inventing God, we’ve developed the ability to consider our own straits—and we’ve equipped Him with the kind of handy loopholes that enable us to believe we only have so much control. The truth is that most people enjoy a certain level of impotence. But I think we do have control—so much that it scares us to death. As a species, God might be the greatest gift we’ve ever given ourselves. The gift of sanity.”