Like all of the previous works I've read of Annalisa Crawford, this one charmed me with her prose. Simple phrases and gestures contain worlds and the relationships she builds between characters are layered and enduring.

My favorite pieces are probably the title story, That Sadie Thing, about the reasons behind a woman's desire to call others without starting a conversation, and The Omlete, about a woman regularly visiting a dinner after seeing her friend at a nearby hospital. They're simple pieces, but I can't help but love the tangle of emotion that lives under the day-to-day actions of the characters.

I always enjoy reading Annalisa Crawford's stories.

This was an awful book for a road trip, because I kept crying and I did not need blurry vision or a tight throat when a friend called me via bluetooth.

Seriously, the whole second half. I just cried.

But, not all my tears were because this is a sad book about cancer kids. A bunch of inches were the result of the beautiful connection between people - the happy tears, the thankful tears, the 'that's a beautiful thing to say' tears.

This book is, above all else *real*. It will touch you everywhere, from love to friendship to self-identity to how you simply exist in the world. Nothing remains untouched about our lives on Earth, probably because Hazel and Augustus has so limited time on it, they have to explore as much as they could.

*sighs lovenly*

Omg, the fluff.

But before we even got to that, I can't tell you how amazing it was to read a story from an ace perspective that I can relate to. Most of what I find YA, and finding a NA version made me so happy. I pretty much spent the entire reading this going "me, me, and also me".

It's actually crazy, how much this *could* be me. After all, I've traveled a bit too. Hmm.

Regardless, I, obviously, really enjoyed it. WAFF (warm and fluffy feelings) galore, and it was nice to see touching moments between people that aren't tinted rose. Friendships are so important, and to see one grow was so nice to see.

So, good, quick fast read that I actually wish would have dived deeper into things. For this being about travel, I wanted to see the places a little more clearly in my head, but I loved reading about how these two women felt about traveling and what they saw. It's the scattered, small moments of this book that really make this. Though, again, I wish I could have gotten under Christie and Roslyn's skin a bit deeper. I didn't quite get the emotional fulfillment I wanted from this, but it still made me ridiculously happy to read.

I fell in love with this book from the very first chapter. Yu has a great sense of humor, as well as a great talent for self-reflection as evidenced by the narrator's trip down memory lane. How he describes life and time and even human nature is pure poetry and I love how it matched up with physics.

I read the e-book verison, and also loved the hyperlinks to images and videos. I haven't seen that before.

A great read, one that I'm pretty much going to recommend to everyone, and will most likely reread several times.