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An insightful yet jarring sentence "Enchantment exists when things are themselves & not their uses.", I had to read it twice to understand it. An interesting notion yet so lazily composed... I cannot help thinking of Katherine Rundell's The Golden Mole, where normally staccatoed factoids are enraptured in erudite vocabulary soothingly written into almost prose.
— Apr 01, 2025 04:56AM
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Grace
is on page 32 of 306
A few illuminating thoughts that helped me relax into thinking it is a worthwhile read, & then... a snarky comment about how her & her friends named her oncologist "Dr. Baby" due to his appearance (this careless remark gives off mean girl vibes).
— Apr 01, 2025 04:53AM
Grace
is on page 26 of 306
but I can read it - when she is not making inappropriately inaccurate metaphors of quakery & fantasy to medical science (for modern medicine is neither a god nor performative arts, for chrissake), she shares interesting historical tidbits & at moments writes sincerely of vulnerability, instead of hiding behind & indulging in romantic wordplay. Why this rushed job to print? Perhaps the medical bills were pressing.
— Mar 29, 2025 06:12PM
Grace
is on page 14 of 306
an unpromising start: as the author makes a simile of her diagnosis with that of a fortune teller’s prognosis. A person in sickness should be given consideration & sympathy - yet I feel that her friends who proofread her work did her a ill service by letting such asinine similes go on.
I cannot help feeling conflicted: to criticise someone writing while ill, yet…a Pulitzer? Can I then write one too?
— Mar 29, 2025 05:36PM
I cannot help feeling conflicted: to criticise someone writing while ill, yet…a Pulitzer? Can I then write one too?
