I’m really trying to savour Molly Young’s Troubleshooting. It is a bit easier than you’d think because I go back and re-read while I’m still on the first way through. Silly, a bit, yes. Everything is easily explainable though: it’s damn good. Really, really damn good. Damn gooder than many other things.

Entrance Exam, I think I’ve read that one five times now. It’s the first one in the book. It begins like this:

“When you spend a lot of time around other people, you’re not really alone until you’re alone for a while.”

Two paragraphs later when I reach the end of the page, I sigh a quiet “yes.” If I ever meet her, I have to ask her to marry me. It would be awkward to say the least but some things needs to be done no matter what the fallout.