a brutal read or unhaul 😵‍💫 worst book of the year, some rants, big unhaul EP. 8

So, yeah, I'm a little bit of the way through this one and enjoying it fine.

I DNFED Babel and I just really it was just not the book for me. It did not work for me at all.

I am allergic to this kind of writing. I can't. Also finding the writing very repetitive.

I want to protect him. I love him so much. This is my favorite book of the year so far.

I've read When We Were Orphans, which I do remember liking, but it was so long ago that now I'm like, did I? And then I've also read Never Let Me Go, which [snorts] I did not enjoy that much.

This one I'm finding very similar to When We Were Orphans, which if you remember is the one Ishagorto book that I've loved. And then the other two that I haven't have been, Never Let Me Go and The Berry Giant.

I'm not getting a sense of any of the characters, much less Ren, who I'm assuming we're supposed to be rooting for. And at least knowing who she is or like wanting to know who she is, but everyone feels a bit flat. No one really feels fleshed out.

I liked it, but I'm not loving it. That being said, I do think there is some kind of addictive quality about The Remains of the Day that I definitely did not feel with my last Ishiguro read.

I'm finding the writing style just very blleh. And it's so blah that like I'm really truly falling asleep. Our detective character, Anwin, is extremely passive and things just keep happening to him.

I'm not having the wow factor experience that I feel like I had with When We Were Orphans.

I don't know why this book needed to be written. I think it shouldn't have been written. This is probably now the worst book I've read all year.