Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I am not living.
-Jonathan Safran Foer

Mr. Foer is one of my new favorite people. I have read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and am almost through with Everything is Illuminated. His novels are like nothing I have ever read before. Each novel is closer to an art experiment than anything that resembles literature. His novels are sad, humorous, and incredibly profound. He most reminds me of Dave Eggers' Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Both books center around love but not the normal Nora Roberts love. No, something much more deep than that. They even ask whether love really exists and about its nature. I have thoroughly enjoyed his books. He needs to write another one!