WHY is the main character so dramatic. DAMN go check on your mum stop playing piano and having a melt down you don't even LIVE there. It is not about you "Why close it? Why not ask the rest of us first?" Because it's not about you 😭😭😭😭😭 she's acting like a teenager Side note: The use of cursive is a bit misleading and confusing. Either use it for the voice in her head OR for emphasis. NOT BOTH That whole shower scene was gross ("Stop thinking about a naked grandma!") What? It's easy to read and I want to know how the book will end so I'm going to keep reading

"I couldn't think of another dream I would want besides the one I had. Then again, I'd never let myself even wonder what other dreams were out there." I can't decide if this is a glowing testament to Joni's steadfast passion or a burnout midlife crisis. It's probably both.

IM TRYING TO CHUG THROUGH THIS. GENUINELY. I'm trying so hard to just get this done so I can meet my goal. This is so painful to get through. I genuinely don't care about anything that's happening. I'm reading other books as chasers so I can get through this final stretch. I am too deep in and I just want to finish it and never touch this again. I will forever hate this book. I don't even feel like giving this a 3 star. Genuinely, the prose isn't even impressing me enough to give it that. This might just be a 1 star because of how painful this is. I usually only give 1 star to truly terrible books that did their jobs terribly. Things like Iron Widow. But this is genuinely so painful to get through to the point I'm checking the chapter numbers to see how much I have to read until it's over. Ursula K. Le Guin has such wonderful prose to the point that she could write about an average man's daily life and I would be invested. This is such a snoozefest that not even the prose can make me want to continue this. This reads like someone reading out loud a county newspaper in a monotone voice. Genuinely.

the narrator/author is really antiphatic and its not fun or interesting reading abt her life