In his review for Variety, Chris Willman compared the song to Maroon 5 while Tim Sendra of AllMusic compared it to "Awaken, My Love!

Brautigan's writing gives me a feeling of freedom - green fields of freedom, a golden sky of freedom - to be who I am. Aside from the Walsh Sister series other novels written by Keyes include; Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, The Charming man, The brightest star in the sky and The Woman Who Stole My Life. It’s very easy to foretell the future when it’s already happened, if you know what I mean) I knew I was looking at my destiny. You're never really sure if it's all happening on Earth but in a different time or just in the mind of the author.After being released as a single, "Watermelon Sugar" re-entered the chart in May at number sixty-four and reached number one on the chart dated 15 August 2020; giving Styles his first number-one single, his third top-ten single, as well as his fourth top-twenty single in the US, and third from Fine Line.

The sun shines a different color everyday, there are talking tigers, missing things and bandits in this wonderful book.He sat on the edge of the hard hospital chair, looking as if he was going to get up and run away any second.

My normal reaction to feeling hurt or betrayed was to go on the warpath, but somehow I knew that it wouldn’t do me any good at all in this situation.

Brautigan doesn’t give you the ‘why’s’ that we all desperately want to try and make sense of the world and the happenings we find ourselves in.

I didn’t know A Clockwork Orange was the future or that Groucho Marx had a painted mustache, for longer than I care to admit. I've never been so bored as when I was in In Watermelon Sugar and I can no longer pretend his work is important just because so many other people think it is.

Dublin’ doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as ‘Tara’, but what would be the point in me going home to Tara. The narrator forewarns us on page 9 "how quiet and nice things are around here now that they are dead. I suppose it was everything I wanted, but couldn't have - freedom on all levels for a small-town girl stuck in a small school full of small people. The most important thing to remember when preparing your soil for watermelon plants is that they need the soil to be very warm to grow. There is a very comfortable and comforting communal way of life which is very simple and has inspired lots of positives and was very much appreciated in the 60s and 70s.