Sometimes a book comes along at exactly the right moment, and your circumstances mean that you get all the more out of said book. This usually happens when I read nonfiction – something will be going on in my life and I happen across a book that is reassuring or affirming in precisely the way I need at that time. When I read Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld it was right-book-at-the-right-time for different reasons. I was on holiday with my friends (yes, this review is long overdue). One of those friends is the person I often refer to here as my ‘best reading buddy’. Coincidentally, she had also brought Romantic Comedy along as her holiday reading. So we sat on the beach and by the pool, laughing and loving the same bits of the story at virtually the same time. And neither of us wanted the book (or the holiday) to end. Continue reading →