Love Me Tender
Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I’m breaking the fourth wall again for these last two blog posts—this one on Love Me Tender and the upcoming Conclusions post. I think it lets me say a little more than when I’m playing at the woodland witch. So, getting to this final novel (wow)—I was really taken off guard by how quickly this book took off. It hit the ground running and stayed running, with all the commas making each sentence feel almost disconnected. I had to pay close attention to the capital letters and the punctuation to make sure I was following the sentence structure properly, and knowing who was saying what. It kind of felt like I was being slapped in the face with every new statement that Debre dropped, and it was really conflicting for me because I kept getting checked like, ‘I really need to wait until I’ve finished reading this sentence and the next three sentences before I come to a conclusion’. It felt like I was constantly trying to j...