A super interesting book centered around the idea of a pandemic where the people who get sick and recover become deeply content and start shedding/donating etc their worldly possessions. There’s a lot of interesting and thought-provoking ideas here around what it means to be happy, can society survive if everyone is compassionate and giving? What if some are and some aren’t? What’s moral and can you sacrifice some to save many? and so much more. Shusterman is an exquisite author and this book is no exception.
with gratitude to netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
I am not going to rate this book. I know many loved it and I kept trying and trying but after getting 60+% through this VERY LONG book, I am so so done. Not the book for me. Too much drama, not enough character development.
We added corn to this, too. We didn’t have any frozen peas so we used canned which just don’t taste as good. But it was still really tasty. I paired it with the meatballs I’d made during my first week.
Practicing my sketching. “If today gets difficult, remember the smell of coffee, the way sunlight bounces off a window, the sound of your favorite person’s laugh, the feeling when a song you love comes on, the color of the sky at dusk, and that we are here to take care of each other.”
