Sometimes you see an okay movie based on a book but have a feeling that the book itself might be much better, so you buy the book and it turns out you were right. It happened with Richard Russo and it's now happened again.

All the characters, naturally, have much more depth in the book compared to the movie, and the book is full of intelligent insights about many aspects of life, and aging specifically. Being in my thirties now and so on the downhill side of physical and mental health, it's a topic of much interest to me.

I read the book in a day, which hasn't happened in a long time. I wasted a month trying to read "David Copperfield" by Dickens but got nowhere, and the end result was that I did no reading at all. I wonder when I'll learn to abandon books sooner when it becomes clear it's just not going to happen...