21 Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks

Want to read this one?  Too bad it isn't available in retail until November 2019 but, when it is...go out and get it immediately.  I feel privileged that I was selected to receive an advanced copy from Netgalley and St Martin's Press.

I fell in love with Matthew Dicks' writing when I read Memoirs of an Invisible Friend several years ago.  He has such a unique and almost childlike perspective on the world that makes you shift your view just a little. 

This book is written as a journal in lists which makes it compulsively readable.  My first session with this novel was a "one more chapter (month) then I'll go to bed, 2AM no regrets" experience. As Daniel grapples with being a business owner, a husband to a widowed wife and soon to be father, you could feel his panic and self-doubt blossom then subside throughout the course of his compulsive list making.

Yes, there are some repetitive lines and themes that removed a star for me, but it is so deeply human that I was willing to glaze over a few things to get to the heart of the book.  I can't want to see how the public receives this one.