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Although fast-paced, it’s quite a heavy read and I need to take breaks when I read it. I find the first-person depiction of anxiety and mental illness spot on and all too familiar to me.

Reaching the halfway point and I’m rapidly losing steam. The book’s not boring and I like it and I like her writing but... it’s slow. I keep waiting for *something* to happen. I don’t know where it’s going.

E.g. of said deliciousness: A Tokyo temple that feels frozen in time to ice core samples of ancient atmosphere from the Arctic. Handwriting to the intimacy of skin. ‘Wave’ and ‘person’ in the character ‘ronin’ to floating about on the sea of life. A nervous breakdown introduced through jellyfish-watching. Old women’s bodies to the passage of time. Information on the internet and memories to geodrift in ocean gyres.