I have a top 3: Sam Vimes, Granny Weatherwax and Sam Gamgee

I don’t have a ‘take’ because I’m not pretentious about enjoying reading.

The first half or so of House of Leaves has a deliberately dense typography (not sure if that’s the right word). The font is smaller, set closer together and there are a lot more words per page. So it feels like it is taking a long time to read because you’re not clocking as many pages. Keep that in mind when you feel like it’s a slog.

I wouldn’t skip parts, especially in your case, because the parts you’d be skipping are the ‘difficult’ ones and you said your mom not only enjoyed difficult reads but it’s her favourite book, so read the whole thing. I’m not a fan of skipping parts in general because the whole has been put together by the author for a reason and the different parts interact with each other.

In my copy of the book, the footnotes are in the text, not all grouped together at the end, which is how they should be.

Oh wow, I never knew that, shows how little I go in for awards.😅

It was, such a good album. I’ve been listening to Woodland Rites for a few years so when I saw they had a new release on Spotify I gave it a listen and it’s up there with my favourite releases this year.