Merle > Status Update

Been reading this book on and off for ~1 year now. The problem is that every time there's a high, I know there will be an even lower low, so I stop myself right before then, knowing Zola's lows consist of throughly detailed and drawn out vivid prose to suck you into the character's emotions, and sometimes, I just don't have it in me. Because of that, though, it makes picking the book back up that much harder...