Katie

This one was a tough read. I still really enjoyed it, especially after the plot started to pick up a little bit, but I was not expecting the book to take the tone that it did toward the end. It’s interesting.

Plus, I don’t know if it’s me or the long-gone social conventions of the book, but I often felt like the Prince in not understanding what was going on. Why did everyone laugh at him so much, especially when he was often feeling a real concern or emotion. I still don’t really understand some of the scenes, but I think that’s because I’m taking them at face value? But what other way is there to take them?

I think this one would do with a re-read eventually, especially with the context of the ending.

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.

Really sweet. I still unfortunately remain a day one stan of Odysseus, but I think part of the reason I love Homer so much is that so much has spun out from him. Miller is just the next in a long lineage, and her place is well deserved.