Katie

she never finds out

I really liked this book in theory, but I guess at this point Tremblay books are just a hit or a miss for me. Like, it was good for sure, but not the good I was hoping for (if that makes sense)?

The ending was horrifically sad, though. I will give it that.

Wasn’t so sure about this one at first, but then the stories started to play with formatting and language and all that stuff and I was hooked.

THEN I had a CBD soda over the weekend and decided that the best, most smartest thing to do would be to keep reading this book, and I got to the House of Leaves-like story about the barn and it scared the absolute shit out of me. Got jumpscared by a footnote. Ran up the stairs because I was afraid of the dark. Luckily I’m pretty sure my cats fight ghosts.

4.75
-.25 because I'm too stupid to understand the trains fully

When asked about what future our society is currently heading towards, I fully believe Brave New World is more probable than 1984. Maybe I'm being a pessimist, and it's certainly ironic to be writing this on Goodreads, but good lord. The addiction, the distraction, the emphasis on “fun” and an easy life...what else is there to say?

Make sure you challenge yourself. Do difficult things. Don't avoid the bad times. It's part of what makes us human.