I tell you, this is a good life

Last words of the acknowledgment page - which comes after the end of the book - in Gabrielle Zevin's Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. And this is one of those books which gave me a wonderful, layered reading experience, which made me happy to be a reader, or made me remember how happy I am to be reading. It gave one of those moments when you're reading and loving a book though it's not necessarily comfortable and part of your brain breaks free for a second or two and you think 'Oh wow, this is really really well done" and then you go back to reading engrossedly but that little analytical part is going 'Damn, this is good'. You know what I mean, right? Anybody?

Or maybe not. I'll try to do a little judicious quoting and a bit of slightly less squeeish enthusiasm and see if that does it.

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