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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, by Hank Green
published in 2018
where I got it: the library
It’s been a year of reading important books, and important news, hasn’t it?
Yeah, nothing my brain rebels more against than being told I have to to do something. Also, well, 2020. I don’t think any of us have reached our reading aspirations this year.
And we should be kinder to ourselves.
The best thing I did for my mental health in the last 6 months was go to the library. The why behind that is a long story. But I purposely got books that weren’t important. I purposely got books that had nothing to do with the year 2020.
One of the books I got was An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, which some friends at work had been raving over since it came out in 2018. As it turned out, this book, that was on a random shelf, in a random library aisle, was remarkably exactly what I needed.
The book was a ridiculously fast read, buckets of rapid speed dialog, all the mundane moments skipped with paragraphs that started with “later that evening” or “two days later”. If you are looking for quiet moments of contemplation, and deep character studies, this is not the book for you. You know those one season Netflix shows that seem to cram 4 seasons of stuff into 8 episodes, and the wrap up is a call back to the opening scenes and then you want to watch the entire thing over again and it was the perfect escape, which is why we love Netflix? (Russian Doll, looking at you!) This book is very much like that.
The author, Hank Green, seems to have had buckets of fun writing this! And i don’t know if it was the mood I was in when i read it, or if Green likes a lot of the same things I like, but I kept getting half sorta easter eggs, which aren’t spoilers. I was reading a fun book, and it was reminding me of other fun tv shows and movies that I liked, and that only added to my enjoyment, is what I mean.
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the Little Red Reviewer 
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