![]() but i read it back and there's more to it: Spoilerthe comparison of exiting the subway station to ascending into the clouds- heavenly, or at least stepping out of the dark and into the light. at first i was disappointed, asking myself how the author could think that's a good place to stop. ![]() i loved her character's voice (in the literary sense, not the audiobook, though that was good too), i saw myself reflected in it a bit. i think it's in the narration: NP's is third-person, detached, and almost cold, while ET's is first-person, familiar, and didn't make everything feel completely futile? it helped that i related a lot, more than i would like, to the narrator □ she's just like me fr. ![]() ![]() Very similar to the only Sally Rooney book i've read, Normal People, (in fact, both audiobooks were read by the same person) but where i found NP depressing, i found Exciting Times *comforting*. ![]()
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