Ayo’s Reviews > Seascraper > Status Update

“The town feels smaller than it did when he rode through it last.

The outer world seems fuller and less difficult to reach.”


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Wood starts out describing the mundanity of our main character with ease seducing the reader into thinking this is a gentle boring reflection.

Then boom drops a new character into the world activating the story.

By the time you know what Wood is doing you are awed - the preciousness of every interaction, the meeting of misfits, imago dei ❤️🥰😍

A lot of the studio guys are straight from Harvard business school or Princeton & they are quick to let u know about it in a meeting but they never have a thought worth sharing.Their whole lives are built on status.More than that they want conformity.They are terrified of what’s original because it undermines them. So they get behind what’s mediocre-keep on feeding u their trash as though it’s good for u. 🎯

“The conversations of his day repeat and skew inside his head and he can’t spot revising them and wishing he had spoken less forthrightly, being more positive, more likable or more refined.

He isn’t sure how long he lies there rolling over, rolling back but the best part of the afternoon is wasting. He accepts he’s too tired to sleep and gives up trying.”


I LOVE THIS!!! 🥹❤️🥰

“I can’t to be in houses with no books in them. Can you? “

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“Some people are so righteous in their minds they can’t accept mistakes in others.

They would rather cradle condemnation at their breast than help someone in trouble.”

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This is so James Joyce coded! ! ! The simplicity in this also reminds of Claire Keegan’s style

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