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I see it is taken too literally/with no exception, and taken beyond what it is meant for... Human understanding tends to do so... !

I totally get that too! I 100% just enjoyed the actual telling of Evelyn’s life. Did not care for the Monique stuff. I kind of enjoyed the foreshadowing though, bc for me personally it kept me guessing what was happening and things were sort of a plot twist for me. Like harry going from producer, to friend, to finding out he’s gay, to best friend to husband to father, etc, really kept me reading the book!

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If that second stretch is the first lines of the book I'm quite intrigued.

Thanks! Please don’t delete this comment because I’ve saved it for further reading

Yes! Loved that

One of the AI ones. Bad enough you folk are getting journals and magazines like clarksworld shut down with your crap. That and flooding self-pub spaces with the low-content spam. You don't need to take it to places that discuss actual fiction when the only thing you've learned about fiction has come from Google and AI answers.

I knowwww, I guess the whole thing was no one is perfect. Very sad

I can't put books on while I'm doing other things and take anything in. I will listen on walks or in the car (passenger) as I can focus on the words that I am listening to but the second my attention is on something else, it loses me.

I also have to pick the narrator carefully as I will tune out different people.

Books I have read before, and have a good narrator, will be used to go to sleep to.

It doesn't mean they aren't for you, necessarily, just that you need to be more selective in when you are listening to them and if it is background noise or something you are actively listening to.

Yah it’s kind of depressing LOL but kind of made the it a weird twisted book

There are different writing styles and hers works for her. That's why the same person can appreciate Hemingway and Faulkner even though they're on two different sides of the spectrum.

And sorry for implying you have poor reading comprehension. I see now that I did originally misinterpret your post

True facts

Don't give up.

Remember that listening is a skill. It's something you have to actively do, have to practice, have to get better at by doing it.

Listening is not a passive thing that just happens. You must choose to do it.

Choose. Practice. Do it more. if you can't remember anything about a chapter in an audiobook, rewind back to the beginning of the chapter and make yourself listen to it again.

It's a skill. Skill requires practice and effort. That's all this is, no cause to give up

I totally get that, I think it helped that I listen to it audiobook. I don’t think the characters were relatable, but I was still very interested to see how things turned out I suppose

"The Great Automatic Grammatizator" (from Someone Like You): A mechanically-minded man reasons that the rules of grammar are fixed by certain, almost mathematical principles. By exploiting this idea, he is able to create a mammoth machine that can write a prize-winning novel in roughly fifteen minutes. The story ends on a fearful note, as more and more of the world's writers are forced into licensing their names—and all hope of human creativity—to the machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Automatic_Grammatizator

Hope you enjoy it!

can you suggest a subreddit for this? :)

Yes I put Salt Slow on hold at the library right after I finished, lol. It seems right up my alley. And YES love that comparison to Carmen Maria Machado... If Wives were a short story, I could see it being similar. I haven't read Mariana Enriquez but I'll have to check her out.

“A truly great library contains something to offend everyone.” I love that quote.

same, I got the audiobook from the library originally and just bought a copy today!

Oh my gosh, that sounds so traumatizing! I'm so sorry you had to go through that... but I can see how much you could relate to the book after dealing with those medical problems.

do you enjoy reading or do you enjoy talking about how much you've read?

Seneca, the stoic philosopher is "somewhat" with the idea of suicide, although I disagree with him... and he suffered from serious illness too. Epictetus was disabled and a slave... but they encouraged living a "good" life, for everybody, a life without additional unnecessary suffering

and what you said in the first paragraph is not how they put it... and I couldn't do their philosophy justice by my wording, especially here... They do!

As you read those opinions, it would benefit you to check out stoic literature extensively, and yes, even from the Roman emperor... It's not only me who says so, but many people from all sorts... including the disabled/chronically ill throughout history...

It's something good for you, if you want it!

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