The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

by Gabrielle Zevin

But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

If something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.