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I stopped doing my book reports in large part because I more or less stopped reading ... This happened about when I cleared my 'easy fiction' stack and moved onto the super dense French philosophy stack, oddly enough. I have dabbled in a little fiction here and there: Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tales, surprisingly a slog; Light Perpetual, binged in two days and had a hard cry at the end.
Someone has just bought me a novel and sent it with very high recommendations, so I am embarking on reading it, and I thought I'd write down some thoughts while I do so because, frankly, at about 50pp in, that's pretty much the only thing encouraging me to keep reading. The thing is absolutely plastered in raving blurbs, so either there's something I'm not getting or it's a slow burn. I look forward to finding out, she said rhetorically.
For fun, I'm not going to tell you what book it is. Maybe you have read it and can guess. Maybe this will start some interesting conversations about the abstracts of storycraft. Maybe this will drive you absolutely crazy and you will badger me until I tell you. Isn't life exciting?
( Up to p.53 )
Someone has just bought me a novel and sent it with very high recommendations, so I am embarking on reading it, and I thought I'd write down some thoughts while I do so because, frankly, at about 50pp in, that's pretty much the only thing encouraging me to keep reading. The thing is absolutely plastered in raving blurbs, so either there's something I'm not getting or it's a slow burn. I look forward to finding out, she said rhetorically.
For fun, I'm not going to tell you what book it is. Maybe you have read it and can guess. Maybe this will start some interesting conversations about the abstracts of storycraft. Maybe this will drive you absolutely crazy and you will badger me until I tell you. Isn't life exciting?
( Up to p.53 )
