This felt like a slow start for me - but I finished it pretty quickly. Cecily’s letter to Kate at the end was beautiful… the slog thru Nick and her mom Rita was not.

“A good life is about the books we read, the things we care about, the friends we love, and the care with which we love them. And a good life is also about how we choose to treat ourselves…. I know you can do anything, I know you will do everything.”

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more trees. - George Eliot