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Will read later in the week, when I am less occupied. I just want to say for now that you're a cool person for posting this.
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I finally have the time to read but have to be granted access to the document now. Still don't have it after waiting a couple of days, so I thought I'd ask here.
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Two months later, and I've finally read it through. I am very sorry for this. I am terrible at dealing with stress, and I've had a lot of it lately, along with taking on a lot of other projects. It isn't hard to read a 91-page book, but it has been hard to sit down and find the peace of mind to give it its due. Anyway, enough excuses. I liked this a lot. It's almost the opposite of A Temporary Slice of Dwelling, focused and insightful where that one was rambling and preoccupied with minutiae. There were parts that reminded me uncomfortably of points in my own life, of habits and thought processes that I've sometimes slipped into. (Some of which have, in fact, delayed this post.) That said, I don't think that this is so specific and personal that it would shut out someone without common ground; the parts outside my frame of reference engaged me as much as the elements closer to home. And the language is very good, with almost nothing that I can fault beyond pet peeves of punctuation and usage. (A single line, "I did get to be adjacent to who I wanted to be, the almost eventuality of who I decided to be," reminded me of Dwelling, but it's far outweighed by the sharpness everywhere else.) Whatever your fears, this isn't excessively introspective navel-gazing that will alienate anyone who doesn't go out of their way to give it the benefit of the doubt. It's good writing, and it's all the more to its credit that it's in an individual style about a personal topic. Absolutely worth publishing, even if novellas are notoriously hard to sell. Thank you for your patience, but more than that, thank you for the story. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Oct 29, 2019 |
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