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A book you love:

"It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss."

I have never been the kind to read for pleasure. If I was reading a book, it was because I was going to be tested on it in school. And I may or may not have mostly sparknoted my way through high school. It was never something I enjoyed.

"...sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I'm not living."

I can't tell you the number of books I have picked up with good intentions to read from cover to cover. So, naturally, the first book I got through cover to cover was one I loved. And the one I'm going to share with yall. It remains my absolute favorite (and yes I have gotten through other books since then!)

"Every moment before this one depends on this one."

quotes from: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

The very basic gist of it is this: it's about a 9 year old boy who searches New York for the lock that matches the mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the attacks of September 11. I can't tell  you how touching of a story it is. I implore you to consider picking it up!

"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me."

It has been made into a movie that is being released sometime next year with Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, and John Goodman to name a few. But I just can't wrap my head around how they can convey this book as a movie and do it justice.

"I like to see people reunited, maybe that's a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone..."