Michael Mather > Recent Status Updates

I’m glad I didn’t give up on reading this, but also heartbroken from continuing in this suffocating world of complexity.

“You stand for some time, an unmoving car ploughed into from behind.”

Exactly how it feels right now.

Chapter 10…fantastic.

The narrator talks in extent about having their breath taken away in various circumstances while the author knowingly or unknowingly makes me feel as if I am holding mine, even though my lungs are still growing and deflating.

I was feeling a bit detached from the book through chapters 7-9.

Now traversing through chapter 10, the plot is pulling me back in and the prose is making the book feel like an intimate meeting—or an honest meeting should I say, to go with the book’s saying.

I feel that plot is still important for me, I’m not strictly only interested in literary writing.

Wow the emotions almost feel claustrophobic, but in a good way—like I’m experiencing the truest essence of life through words written in a book.

Struggled a little with the writing of chapter 5, I didn’t quite understand what was being said.

But then I started to connect with the writing again.