Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story
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Cerebral and almost bordering on pretentious but with some true moments of beauty where you find kindred souls in the characters. Marveling prose and writing with an rather unsatisfying dramatically unraveling ending.
„She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.” “Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me?” “I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed.” “So when people say we’re alone in the ether? Alone in everything. In time and space, in existence, in religion.” “ Because we have agreed, collectively, that to proceed without knowledge or understanding is a stupid kind of bravery, an impulsive kind of blindness, but that to be alone, without wonder or curiosity is to chip away any possible value we might discover an existing.”
I don’t have words.
DNF @ page 117 I’m sorry did we all read the same book? This was single-handedly the worst and most boring book I’ve ever read and I couldn’t care less for the characters. Also, where is the plot? I struggled even getting through these pages as I normally don’t DNF but this is my breaking point. I can’t believe I wasted precious hours that I could’ve spent reading an actual good book instead of this mess.
The writing is exquisite, I haven’t read anything like it. How did she manage to make me feel everything the characters felt - good or bad? How did she create such fascinating characters? Such realistic displays of thoughts and feelings? I’m honestly so in awe.
„Let’s talk about the bees“
Alone with You in the Ether by Olivie Blake was initially difficult for me to grasp and I struggled to get into it. However, as I kept reading, the witty humor, sensuality, body and sex positivity, and overall writing style won me over. The deeply layered characters and the use of vivid, carefully chosen language made the experience immersive. It’s easy to lose yourself in such evocative and cleverly written prose. 4.5/5 ⭐️
As indicated by the description, the book is about two people who have mental health issues. I found the premise to be interesting. Things I liked were the discussion of female sexuality and Aldo’s Dad. However, all the things I liked aside… I have a few dislikes. — I did not like the structure (if you can call it that) at the beginning and at the end the narrator shifts to various narrators, which kind of confused me. — I found the pacing in general to be either too slow or too fast. — the conversations they had seemed unlikely. I felt that they were supposed to be deep and meaningful, but I often wished they just got to the point a few sentences earlier. — I also could not really follow the progression of their relationship after they have had the six conversations they agreed on. — I am not a fan of romanticizing mental illness and toxic relationship dynamics (codependency and obsessiveness), which, I felt, was happening. For example, Reagan doesn’t continue taking her pills, and she keeps having these vivid imaginations of her being violent to the point of death. But she doesn’t really care for them to be gone. Furthermore, Aldo is described as walking on eggshells around her, careful not to agitate her, but it is never actually addressed between them. And they have plenty of troubling conversations which contain emotional abuse. — the language was ableist (e.g., crippled, blind as synonym for ignorance) — Aldo’s success is so weirdly framed. I wonder how one can accidentally become a doctoral student.
Absolute masterpiece. I loved her writing style so much, the way Olivie describes the thoughts of her characters is beautiful. For the first time in a long time I put a book down because I didn’t want it to end.
cant stop thinking about it
Beiträge
Cerebral and almost bordering on pretentious but with some true moments of beauty where you find kindred souls in the characters. Marveling prose and writing with an rather unsatisfying dramatically unraveling ending.
„She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.” “Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me?” “I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed.” “So when people say we’re alone in the ether? Alone in everything. In time and space, in existence, in religion.” “ Because we have agreed, collectively, that to proceed without knowledge or understanding is a stupid kind of bravery, an impulsive kind of blindness, but that to be alone, without wonder or curiosity is to chip away any possible value we might discover an existing.”
I don’t have words.
DNF @ page 117 I’m sorry did we all read the same book? This was single-handedly the worst and most boring book I’ve ever read and I couldn’t care less for the characters. Also, where is the plot? I struggled even getting through these pages as I normally don’t DNF but this is my breaking point. I can’t believe I wasted precious hours that I could’ve spent reading an actual good book instead of this mess.
The writing is exquisite, I haven’t read anything like it. How did she manage to make me feel everything the characters felt - good or bad? How did she create such fascinating characters? Such realistic displays of thoughts and feelings? I’m honestly so in awe.
„Let’s talk about the bees“
Alone with You in the Ether by Olivie Blake was initially difficult for me to grasp and I struggled to get into it. However, as I kept reading, the witty humor, sensuality, body and sex positivity, and overall writing style won me over. The deeply layered characters and the use of vivid, carefully chosen language made the experience immersive. It’s easy to lose yourself in such evocative and cleverly written prose. 4.5/5 ⭐️
As indicated by the description, the book is about two people who have mental health issues. I found the premise to be interesting. Things I liked were the discussion of female sexuality and Aldo’s Dad. However, all the things I liked aside… I have a few dislikes. — I did not like the structure (if you can call it that) at the beginning and at the end the narrator shifts to various narrators, which kind of confused me. — I found the pacing in general to be either too slow or too fast. — the conversations they had seemed unlikely. I felt that they were supposed to be deep and meaningful, but I often wished they just got to the point a few sentences earlier. — I also could not really follow the progression of their relationship after they have had the six conversations they agreed on. — I am not a fan of romanticizing mental illness and toxic relationship dynamics (codependency and obsessiveness), which, I felt, was happening. For example, Reagan doesn’t continue taking her pills, and she keeps having these vivid imaginations of her being violent to the point of death. But she doesn’t really care for them to be gone. Furthermore, Aldo is described as walking on eggshells around her, careful not to agitate her, but it is never actually addressed between them. And they have plenty of troubling conversations which contain emotional abuse. — the language was ableist (e.g., crippled, blind as synonym for ignorance) — Aldo’s success is so weirdly framed. I wonder how one can accidentally become a doctoral student.
Absolute masterpiece. I loved her writing style so much, the way Olivie describes the thoughts of her characters is beautiful. For the first time in a long time I put a book down because I didn’t want it to end.
cant stop thinking about it