listen ...this ....this was just bad. i like the podcast but wtnv doesn't work in a book format imo. or maybe it would have worked if a) it was shorter or b) it was the same length but maybe with four shorter stories instead of one long one. because when you're listening in short bursts all the weirdness is fine but when you're reading it continuously you're just like 'wow i wish we could stop having so many quirky asides and actually like ...do something' and i still don't even know what the point of any of this was??? 
 i really tried here. i wanted to like it. because i like wtnv and i like that this is a book about two very different women growing as people and growing close to each other and that's nice but there was just too much rambling and it was so unenjoyable. it literally took me over a month to read this. i read like 5 or 6 in between and listened to the last quarter of it on a free audible trial because i literally could not make myself read any more. 
 i would advise you to skip this book but i know you're probably like me and won't believe how mind numbingly dull it is until you read it for yourself.