I have a creative writing degree (BA). In our classes, we had to review each other’s work, and they would review yours, in turn. Sometimes, the best thing I could think of was " I really appreciate your use of punctuation and/ or the correct spelling throughout."

Yeah, I’m okay. We were low contact once I got out of there, thanks. She’s since passed away too, so even fewer problems.

A book self-published by a family member. It’s bad. It’s really, really bad. I had problems in the first paragraph and thought it was me, I could push through bc it was sci-fi. NOPE. Not even the first page.

It changes tenses in the title, and multiple times in the first paragraph. It’s like someone who had no grasp of the English language wrote it, but this family member is as American as they get.

My mom for several years gave me diaries. I didn’t know they were traps. She’s like here, you write your secret thoughts in here, and no one will know about them. EXCEPT FOR HER when she read them. And then punished me for having secrets. What’s really bad is that she got me like three times. The first one, when I didn’t even know what a diary was. The second one had a key, so I thought I was safe. Yeah, no. She had the other key. The last one was a little tiny diary about the size of my phone, and I could hide it. At least till she found it. Fortunately I onto her by then and wasn’t writing anything more risqué than the school lunch menu.

Multiple Choice is a short book by Alejandro Zambra written in the format of a multiple choice test.