Review: In Your Dreams is anything but a snooze-fest
When you're a kid, you have so little control over your life. The world is so big, so unknown and unknowable, and you're just being ferried through it by your parents, teachers, other relatives, siblings, whoever. So much is put in place for you, built around you, decided for you -- you largely don't have much say in the matter. And that's so scary. As is a lot of being a kid. Just like, trying to figure out how the world works, what you actually need to worry about, what's actually a threat to you. Then you find yourself bumping up against thorny, complicated things like love, death, taxes (maybe not taxes). You're always learning, and always learning how much more there is to learn. And, ultimately, that learning never ends. We all spend our whole lives figuring out how to live, and hopefully along the way we land on some decisions we feel happy with. I came into Alex Woo's In Your Dreams in the exact right headspace for it. I don't know why, but toda...
