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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.