Status Updates From L'isola del giorno prima

4.5/10 If I wanted to read a thesis about the author's fav topics I would have gladly read a nonfiction book by him. I think his writing and way of explanation would work far better if it were more focused and restrained, in The Island of the Day Before with the apparent limitless freedom he has set himself; it feels like he's building towards a very long world-view of his own that feels like homework for the reader.

Could be a little more engaging. Let's see if the story picks up

I wish I had an imaginary brother named Ferrante who I could blame all my problems on.

“I take pride withal in my humiliation, and as I am to this privilege condemned, almost I find joy in an abhorrent salvation; I am, I believe, alone of all our race, the only man in human memory to have been shipwrecked and cast up upon a deserted ship.”