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Mike Finn
Mike Finn is 30% done
The narrator's habitual honesty is not a comfortable thing to observe. It's not that she always tells the truth to others but rather that her observations about her own behaviour are intimate in their details but detached in tone, as if she was both specimen and observer. It's a curious mix of insight without agency that's disquieting, not quite human,
May 02, 2024 04:50PM
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Mike Finn
Mike Finn is 36% done
This story is studded with little insights into being human that sit like catseyes in the middle of a dark road: how women form friendships; how trying to explain our impulses feels like making up a story rather than admitting that we don't know why we did something beyond knowing that, in that moment, we chose to do it.

And yet, I feel the catseyes are not creating empathy and intimacy but documenting alienation.
May 03, 2024 11:05AM
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Mike Finn
Mike Finn is 26% done
I'm enjoying the writing. It' enriched by turns of phrase and metaphors that are used to develop the estranged-from-her-own-life view of the main character rather than being self-conscious literary flourishes.
May 02, 2024 01:55AM
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Mike Finn
Mike Finn is 10% done
The first-person voice is quietly unsettled and quietly (but unceasingly) unsettling. It's unsettling to hear that voice tell you that she knows that her husband doesn't like her calling her before-she-was-murdered-and-cloned self 'Your-first-wife" and calling her that anyway because she can't stop herself. It's more unsettling to suspect that in reality, doesn't want to stop herself and then wonder what that means.
Apr 30, 2024 06:59AM
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Mike Finn
Mike Finn is 10% done
I like the first-person voice. It's quietly unsettled and quietly (but unceasingly) unsettling. Ir's hearing that voice tell you that she knows that her husband doesn't like her calling -before-you-were-murdered-and-cloned as your-first-wife and calling her that anyway because she can't stop herself. It's thinking (and probably doesn't want y that refering to the pre-murder you as your hu
Apr 30, 2024 06:53AM
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