Book 5, On Beauty

I really enjoyed this book. It's the first novel I've read by Zadie Smith and, after having read Changing My Mind earlier this month, can safely say that I love her. My reaction to the book is so strong and personal I find it embarrassing so I won't get into it.

'Tell me about it," said Zora, and flicked open the carton.

And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.

Yeah, no. Gonna watch Marie Antoinette.