This was fascinating and I can't stop talking about it. Read it, friends! One of the biggest takeaways I got from the book is that we NEED to learn (and teach our kids, students, etc.) healthy coping methods to deal with stress, depression, anxiety, loneliness, boredom, etc.

"[A] substance or behavior itself isn't addictive until we learn to use it as a salve for our psychological troubles. If you're anxious or depressed, for example, you might learn that heroin, food, or gambling lesson your pain. If you're lonely, you might turn to an immersive video game that encourages you to build new social networks." Addiction happens when our brain learns that a chemical or behavior is critical to our emotional stability, even though it comes with other negative or destructive side effects.

As other people have said, this was a fun, sweet, romantic comedy—and a bit of a love letter to Bloomingdales and NYC.

The February of romantic comedies continues...

I really enjoyed this. It’s about an English boy and girl who cross paths in 1997 Florence just before they are both supposed to start university. And then as the years go by and life happens they keep barely missing each other. It’s sweet but not fluffy, and I’m sure me being the same age as the characters helped.

Well that was charming way to spend a couple of hours, listening to Juliet Stevenson narrate this book.