The Whole Book Experience

It seems that many of my school peer-group read The Great Gatsby in high school or college. Somehow, I never did. And for the subsequent 35 years I never got around to F. Scott Fitzgerald. I’d run across his name or a reference to his books when reading other authors of his time and just figured I’d get to him sometime or the other. Then the Great Gatsby movie came out (again?) and everyone was talking about him again and I thought about reading him again – I didn’t see the movie. But I had other things to read and the years slipped by until Thornwillow Press announced their edition on Kickstarter. And, like often happens with books and authors further down my “To Be Acquired & Read” list, the happy chance of finding a nice edition at the right price point bumped it up the list. As I have done with all the titles I’ve acquired from Thornwillow thus far, I reserved a copy in the paper-wrapper state, which is an amazing value for the money ($95!), and more in line with my current book budget than most private press books out their right now. And it got bumped up to “read next” once it was in my hands because it was an illustrated letterpress edition that seemed to really want to be read.