I've mentioned Nathan Hill's "Wellness" before, and at that time you hadn't read it yet -- I hope you have in the meantime! It is not only my favorite longing for a girl opening ever, but the romance here plays second fiddle to reflecting the craziness of modern life, and modern "wellness" marketing, with a few jabs at modern art thrown …
I've mentioned Nathan Hill's "Wellness" before, and at that time you hadn't read it yet -- I hope you have in the meantime! It is not only my favorite longing for a girl opening ever, but the romance here plays second fiddle to reflecting the craziness of modern life, and modern "wellness" marketing, with a few jabs at modern art thrown in for good measure. It's a love story, but it's so much more, and laugh-out-loud funny too.
I gotta be honest, I bogged down on Wellness and didn't finish it. I got to a part where the narrative wanted me to venture way back in time with the characters and I found myself uninterested in that experience. I was ready for the story to advance and it instead reversed. Not saying this is a mistake or a flaw in the book because I didn't finish it to be able to evaluate it that way, but it threw me out of the narrative with enough momentum to prevent me from finishing.
Thanks for the reply -- I read it when it first came out, so don't remember if I felt a bit bogged down in it or not. Sometimes a book might speak to us, and other times the it doesn't. I did love his "The Nix" too, and want to reread it some time.
I've mentioned Nathan Hill's "Wellness" before, and at that time you hadn't read it yet -- I hope you have in the meantime! It is not only my favorite longing for a girl opening ever, but the romance here plays second fiddle to reflecting the craziness of modern life, and modern "wellness" marketing, with a few jabs at modern art thrown in for good measure. It's a love story, but it's so much more, and laugh-out-loud funny too.
I gotta be honest, I bogged down on Wellness and didn't finish it. I got to a part where the narrative wanted me to venture way back in time with the characters and I found myself uninterested in that experience. I was ready for the story to advance and it instead reversed. Not saying this is a mistake or a flaw in the book because I didn't finish it to be able to evaluate it that way, but it threw me out of the narrative with enough momentum to prevent me from finishing.
Thanks for the reply -- I read it when it first came out, so don't remember if I felt a bit bogged down in it or not. Sometimes a book might speak to us, and other times the it doesn't. I did love his "The Nix" too, and want to reread it some time.