If I don’t finish this Jennifer Egan novel soon, I am going to kill everyone.
Don’t get me wrong, the book is absolutely magnificent. Funny, smart, gorgeous prose, imaginative - everything you could hope for. But something about this book has me moving through it at the most slothful pace. I read books in a day, not entire months.
It’s like when you start on a roadtrip, and you know it is going to be fun, and you are excited about where you are going, but you get in and think “Oh my God, I am going to be sitting in this same spot for the next 20 hours,” or whatever.
