You wake up.

You go to [school][work][nowhere][somewhere].

Then you [go][stay] home.

You watch a TV show. An alien dies. He comes back to life. All is well.

You watch a cartoon. A boy finds a new sword. He finds himself. All is well.

The stories are [fiction][true][both].

You think: I am [human][alien][alive]. I will [die][die and come back to life][live forever].

You think: I am a [child][girl][boy]. I will find myself.

You find that you are [regular][famous][poor][rich][unknowable][loved][hated][having an existential crisis][inexorably mortal][more?]

SELECT AS MANY AS APPLY



We live in a world with nail polish and napalm. We water our concrete cubes and wait. In the end, we fall into the nothingness, just like everyone else.



Block my eggs.



I demanded to write the notes this week because I wanted to write about my super specific niche interest, but then I realized I am too basic to have any truly niche interests. Oh, so you like Taylor Swift. You have cats. You read books. Good for you. I would have picked one of the Bioware games I'm obsessed with, but I have nowhere near enough time or space for that.



So I'm just going to talk about the last book I read and really loved, which is also an incredibly basic choice: Book Lovers by Emily Henry. As of this current moment in time, it is number eight on the New York Times Bestseller List and has been there for 13 weeks.



Not to brag but I've actually been an Emily Henry fan ever since her first YA novel, which she sent me an arc of in 2015 before it even came out. Yeah, that's right. I KNOW Emily Henry. Kind of. We were Twitter mutuals when she was still using it, meeting when we both got mildly harassed by the same bizarre troll account after tweeting about the just released trailer for The Giver. We used to talk about Friday Night Lights and reality TV and while it was a very casual acquaintance, it DOES continue today on Instagram. Yes, I am namedropping, but I love her, she is amazing, and it's an honor to not have been unfollowed.



Anyway, I just have to say that the three adult romance books she's written are truly fantastic. Her stories are so funny and sexy and romantic and her characters feel like people that actually exist, people I could be friends with. Her plots defy the formulas so many popular romance novels stick to. Book Lovers is the best one. The specific reasons why I think this are mostly too personal to go into. Let's just say the protagonist is the unpickable career girl who doesn't want kids, and she gets a happy ending with an Oscar Isaac lookalike (a casting choice Emily has confirmed as accurate, by the way) who doesn't try to change her. When I read the last chapter, I just put it down and cried, because I felt so understood. And that is the thing I am most hoping to find before the lights go out.



Covered this episode:

Star Trek: Voyager S04E12 - Mortal Coil

Adventure Time S05E45 - A Blade of Grass

Adventure Time S05E46 - Rattleballs



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