The Confusatory

One Day, by David Nicholls

One Day was a great book to read just for pleasure, to relax and come down from the epic, challenging, rewarding Infinite Jest I finished a few weeks ago. It’s a quick, easy read. The writing is solid, appropriately character-oriented, and the author uses single quotes for dialogue instead of double (which I used to hate as a child but now love).

For a book predicated on “one day throughout the years”, it spans an impressive amount of time, and the characters’ development and changes over the years are at once both fun to observe and totally, completely heartbreaking.

This story is not upbeat. Don’t read it if you don’t like feeling like you’ve been punched in the gut at times. But it’s good. Really, really good.

(Here I am, recommending a romance novel on Tumblr. It’s on Amazon in Kindle edition.)