"Communing with the dark, in all it's primordial and transformative potency, is somewhat unsettling, certainly. But who on earth wants to keep their feet on the ground on and on? It seems to me entirely indefensible that anyone ever thought it necessary and correct to send an electric current blazing through the furrows of anyone's else's mind in order to dazzle the intimate blackness at it's core into rapid extinction."

#Claire-LouiseBennet #Checkout19 #books #literature

Reading #Checkout19 and enjoying the stream of consciousness style, very similar to #Pond, her first book.

It is a meandering story of a girl and, so far, her admiration of books and the challenge of being a lover of books in a school where the other students don't have the same admiration for books.

The first chapter was kind of annoying, yes yes yes, kind of annoying. But it was humorous in the way it explored the different ways of reading a book. Yes, that is what it did. Gets better, tho.