Status Updates From Ptáčata

I continue to be amazed at the times when authors choose to use overview/summary mode during moments when they should be fully dialed into a close POV. a character starting to tell a dramatic story and the narrative cutting to a wordless, distant-POV flashback can work in movies/TV but it so rarely works in books; the two media speak different languages of sense impressions.

this is very much a The Author Is Very Invested In The Characters' Status As New Yorkers kind of book so far and it's grating me . i don't care about New Yorkers' Main Character Syndrome oh my goddd.