Amelia > Recent Status Updates

This can’t possibly be as shit as it seems?

Hate the rhythm of the sentences. Weirdly compulsive at the same time as it is pissing me off

Omg. The amount of summary (compared to scene) is BLUDGEONING me

Why is she so funny and enjoyable to read in fiction that is very autobiographical (Oranges) but with the slight leap to actual nonfiction she becomes so annoying?

Has a superior tone, there’s a lot of stuff about trauma to intellectualize but it’s coming off twattish to me

Catton’s prose is fairly clunky

Not liking it so far. Prose lacks rhythm

Sweet Christ this has not aged well

Immediately feels like someone trying to do a Lispector impression

“This is me at my most… masochistic” -Me picking this book up a few weeks after I considered it aborted.

Don’t know why I am inflicting this upon myself. My special grievance are the stupid, unfunny, grating names. The names Foster Wallace has created are the worst I’ve heard in my entire life. Mindy Metalman. Wang-Dang Lang. CANDY MANDIBLE. Lenore Beadsman. Walinda Peahen.

Oh no. Female characters enacting the male gaze!

I have never hated a book about an author’s thoughts on writing until now. This is awful

After like 10 pages I thought I could tell this wasn’t for me. Now that I’m on page 80… and yeah I was right. Can never love a book with prose like this.

Quite good!

Whoaaa…