There was so many things I loved about the book that I really don't know where to start. Maybe at the beginning? Well, from the beginning I got a strong sense of Alice in Wonderland vibes. I don't know wether that's for the protagonist's first name, Alice, the whole idea on venturing into a magic land or something more, but I found it gives the story a very cute childlike playfulness. 

This same colorful theme is very strongly present in the whole of the book, the setting, the characters, the plot and most delightful of all remarks, the language. I loved how the words played together like they were the notes that form a beautiful melody, and how the structure gave the music its nuances and dynamic. Altogether the text is very much like a poem. Personally, literature like this is something I admire very much and love to read. In this particular instance I fell for the use of synaesthesia. For example: the smell of sunshine, shoes so shiny one could hear them glitter. So beautiful! Such music"

A melody can't form a song and a poem can't form a point without content. The story, as I already mentioned was quite adorable. But even with the ring of childhood, I discovered some points of meaning. The most important being the most obvious one: selflove and acceptance. It is a topic that Alice struggles with throughout the plot.

Last note on this book before anyone gets bored reading this, is the narrator. She (he? it? I resonated with a she) tells the story like she had heard it from Alice and Oliver later, trying to remember and understand events, actions and thoughts. Most explanations are in fact her own interpretations of things. This was the cream to the cake for me (I mean this as a good thing though if you know me well you would have misunderstood since I don't like neither cake nor cream) and it gave the piece its final finish, the conductor of the orchestra of words.

All in all, long story cut short, I really liked reading Furthermore and absolutely think you should too.  If not for any other of my points at least for a joyful 400 pages.

-Anna