Upon second read (June 2024): Even more of a masterpiece than I remember. It’s funny what you pick up on in a book like this that’s so integral to my being and how I think about art and love and summertime, even, when you read it at different points in your life. This year I’ve been thinking a lot about parallel lives and paths not taken and so the end of this book was RLY speaking to me. I just love the way that love is wrapped up with knowing yourself and seeing yourself in someone else in this book. Literally a perfect piece of work. 
Fav quote: “I’m like you. I remember everything” is possibly the best piece of dialogue to end a novel ever written. 

Upon second reading: Masterpiece. So formative to my 20-something-hood that it’s almost inextricable the before and after having read this book. I noticed so much more the power dynamics and also the (Irish) religious imagery, and it almost made it like reading it for literary criticism, which was fun. Incredible. Also, noticed the bit about Marianne saying, what’s so bad about needing people? At the end which I had never picked up on before. Or maybe I’m just in that headspace now