This was our pick for September, and we both liked it.
Themes include:
- The idea that a person can have a dream that either foreshadows or influences our behaviors post-dream.
- The idea of what I call "Life's Checklist." College-check. Good job-check. Significant other, marriage, baby- check, check & check. Sometimes, we go with the flow of life, doing what's expected, or pursuing what we thought our lives would look like, way back when.
- The idea of what we can control and what we cannot. For me, personally, this is a biggie. Letting go of control is something I'm continuously learning, day after month after year after year. Type A personality folks (raising my hand, lol) tend to think we can control more than we can. Or at least, in our 20s, we tend to think this way. But life has its lessons...or at least life *offers* its lessons...and whether we heed those lessons makes a big difference on our perception of love & happiness.
Characters include: the protagonist Danielle "Dannie," and David, and Bella and another guy. And then there's a same-sex couple Jordi and Anya (which I personally felt was a nice touch to add a dash of acceptance for those among us with loved ones who are gay).
This book was released in 2020, thus, very timely as far as what's going on in the world. Without the covid, thank heavens, because I'm just not ready for a book about that yet, and I might never be.
Overall, there were a couple of things that L and I didn't think jived, and it left me sort of shaking my head at times -- as in, Hmm, this wouldn't really happen...he/she/they wouldn't really act in this manner. But in the big scheme of things, we give this book a 4.5 out of 5 stars for its page-turner aspect.
Cheers to reading!
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