Like, do these people walk into a portrait gallery and go “oh man, it’s so crowded in here!”

I have a color-coded excel file to triage my potential follows and eventual follows—I’m surprised you don’t.

The parenthetical ‘lots’ for breakfast and the qualified ‘maybe house cleaning’ are works of genius in their own right

This is really good analysis.

For me, I really love Lacey’s prose, and I trust her skill with themes and characters, so I feel like she has earned the right to experiment, even if it ultimately doesn’t work for me.

I’m going to see what it’s like reading both parts switching between the two.

I’ve also been thinking of “How to Be Both” while reading!

And then you read them just back-to-back like a collection? Did you feel like anything is gained by packaging them upside down as they are?

How did you read it? What choices did you make in the literary version of choose your own adventure?

She offered then a detailed explanation of why we required a WAAAAAY bigger plunger than we owned and then returned plunger in one hand and popsicle in the other.