So many beautiful sentences to highlight in red

Beautiful writing, spare yet evocative and full of quiet emotion. Love Claire Keegan's work but wish there was a bit more plot here. Read more like a vignette than a fully fleshed out story.

Great as an audiobook--a mash up of I, Tonya, Wuthering Heights, and Daisy Jones & the Six. Having now read Wuthering Heights, I appreciate The Favorites more since you get Katarina's first person perspective. Thank goodness Fargo did not take too much plot inspiration from the classic 😅

me when I consider the time period & circumstances in which this was written: provocative! bold! Emily wrote this at 27 (and she died at 30 😢); she had to follow Jane Eyre (by her older sister Charlotte) which could not have been easy 😮‍💨

me when I consider my reading experience: really wish I could've gotten Catherine and Heathcliff's first person perspective to empathize more because told through Nelly Dean & Mr. Lockwood, I found everyone insufferable (including the narrators) 😭

Lily King somehow portrays both college yearning (messy, vulnerable, electric) and adult wisdom (soft quilts, sadness) convincingly. The first half of this book feels like it would sit next to Normal People by Sally Rooney, and the second half evokes Fredrik Backman’s style and tone. Full of small, poignant details about how we notice and love someone, that will stay with me.

the perfect audiobook for a day of baking Christmas cookies--my desire to have a pocket-sized sidekick has never been stronger

could not be better put than Grazia magazine's review: "A queer One Day for a new generation"