This is a really interesting book. I can see the criticism of it where

nothing really happens.

. However, I couldn't help but really feel like I enjoyed this. In particular, once Jake & company makes the trip to Spain.

I found so much life in the book. The way Hemingway writes leaves lots of space for the reader to insert their own meanings and thoughts into it. In that way, I found this back half of this book to be profoundly reflective. Maybe it was the time I read it. I had just been feeling really run down and burnt out by the daily tasks and responsibilities and I happened to take a boys trip in the middle of this at around the same time the trip to Spain happens and I just found myself reflecting on things because of the words on the page and how my own life seemed to fill them.

I don't have much in common with the characters and yet I saw myself in them and because of that it made the back half really stick with me. I feel like it will be one that does stick with me. Maybe that'll raise the rating of it in the future but this is how I feel about it today. It's a definite reread for me because I feel like it's dense enough that there's a lot here to get to.

It's not for everyone but I'd recommend it if you find yourself wanting to get into a book that's makes you reflect back onto yourself and what life's purpose is for yourself.