Meredith Monday Schwartz

I love it.

That is so much fun.

I love the idea of annotating and then passing that on and having that experience together.

That's really fun.

All right.

Well, I am going to bring – the category that I'm going to speak to is a book that I DNF'd and why.

But big, huge caveat here, speaking of the 666 Book Club, because I haven't decided completely yet.

But we've had some big successes in our book, our book club.

But we're reading a book that I recommend.

I was the one who said, hey, guys, what if we read this one?

So this is all me.

But we're reading Bat Eater or Other Names for Korazang by Kylie Lee Baker, which has hugely high ratings and is a very interesting, very, very interesting book.

But I am struggling so hard with this book.

And it is one of those things where when I'm reading it, I recognize that the sentence level prose and the construction of the book, that it's all being really well done.

Like I'm really, I'm seeing and appreciating the craft.

I am icked out by the story.

I am icked out by the lead character who she just is one of these very, now this might not be the same all the way through.

And this might be something where if it changes by the end, like that would really be an interesting arc.

But the beginning, our lead character is just ridiculous.

like, milk toast, kind of like she describes herself over and over again as just being, like, almost invisible.