I kept wanting to like this book, but it kept whiffing on things that felt egregious. And by the end I’d soured on it. Like her previous novel, I read this one straight through, and maybe that was part of it, but these moments kept sticking out to me, beyond the somewhat derivative story. We are following Casey (Camilla) during her 31st year. She’s an aspiring novelist with a writing degree, on year six of her novel. She’s fresh from a writer’s retreat, her mother […]
I have a pact with myself not to think about money in the morning.
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
