A messy review of Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
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I appreciate that you talked about the reading zone-out phenomenon. It happens to me sometimes. And yes, I also feel irritated with myself when I have to go back and search for the point where I started zoning out.
I don't think I have ADHD, but I might have chronic fatigue, and sometimes the way some writing makes me zone out feels like it's somehow triggering an exhaustion. The zoning out feels like I had to allocate more resources to resting, and less attention gets paid to what I'm reading until, whoops, I notice I've been trying to re-read the same section over and over, but it's just not sticking! It's like part of my awareness has been wandering in pre-sleep mode, on its way to a dream state. What is it about certain texts that causes our brains to crave a clear out/reset? Some brain scientist needs to study this!
Cuckoo sounds like it’s going to be an interesting read. Thanks for the
review.
I felt exactly the same way about this book. There are so many highs, but somehow it gets in its own way. She was actually speaking about three blocks from my apartment yesterday. I was going to go, but the heat (ugh) and my discontent with the book made me decide to stay home. I have severe inattentive ADHD and had to use the audiobook with the physical to get through some of it. Whereas I appreciate the confusion around the characters' identities as a device to help readers feel that internal conflict, it felt clunky.
Yes I zone out a lot while I'm reading and whenever I watch movies.
While reading Manhunt I did zone out a lot and kept having to put the book down, and I suspect it'll be like that when I read Cuckoo as well. I'll still like the book though. Gretchen Felker-Martin is a good writer.
What a great review. I suspect I may have ADHD (or at least, I identity with quite a few elements), and I was wondering why I zoned out in both Manhunt and Cuckoo but was loving both initially... You might have hit the nail on the head as far as Gretchen's style goes. Like you, I thought Cuckoo was a better book than Manhunt, and enjoyed both, but my enjoyment definitely petered out in the latter stages of each. I was really annoyed at myself for having these lapses and not being able to love both books as much as some other people whose reading taste is similar to mine and whose reviews I respect. Thank you so much for putting into words something that I just couldn't and making me feel more secure about the validity of my reading experience.
I wonder whether a parallel could be drawn with the your experience of Izumi Suzuki's short stories, where they were very enjoyable to read but very hard to remember after the fact? An experience that also mirrored my own, ha.
Wow, how eerie! I live that our experiences match so perfectly! There’s real comfort in that :)
I was thinking yesterday about how I've rated so many books highly and yet now can barely remember what was in them. These books I decided to think of as "consumables," like a meal you have and enjoy, but then move on.
I expect that more books will be experienced as consumables for people as they get older, what with short term memory issues etc. I think as I age, there's less likelihood that something will move into long-term memory and be incorporated into my sense of self. I no longer expect to remember everything I read, and also where on what page I read it. Hello, Algernon; goodbye, eidetic memory.
@MsPixieD brain fog and poor short term memory are definitely already a factor for me due to various chronic conditions. There are certain books that stick very well in comparison to others though, so it's interesting to consider that narrative voice might well be a factor (alongside many others) because it's not something I'd thought about previously.
What you say about ADHD and reading is absolutely true.
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Yes abolsutelty!! I have dyselxia and ADHD so for my entire life up until recently I have found reading increasibly painful and completely unenjoyable, honestly for my entire time at school I would avoid reading anything longer than a few sentences, unless I could isolate myself and read it privately. Dyselxia prevents me interpiretting and understanding text and processing the information so if i read a book i miss about 50% of the information and im commonly tripped up on words or negatives in sentence ie I did vs I did not because Id unintentionally skip words.
With ADHD this is made sugnificantly worse. I zone out constantly, I have to go back and reread things because ive forgotten it all, then i have to reprocess it all to understand it, which is then confusing in a disorganised brain simply trying to put all the peices togather. Commonly i think one character is speaking when actually its another. I tended to prefere non fiction if i did read because it was 1 narrator writing things at you not multiple characters talking. Very frequently, my eyes end up following a line without taking in inforamtion because its too hard to read and i often dont realise im doing it so end up on autopiolet without anything in. I could go on and on.
Basically reading was an extremely frustrating and confusing process which legitimately made me feeling increadibly stupid. it was a fucking nightmare.
Things are alot better now with meds and text to speach software (when they are available)
I am just now watching your video. I also have ADHD and struggle with zoning out and the spiral that comes with it. I have found that reading and listening to the audio book at the same time helps me. I have been using my local library for audiobooks, which doesn’t always work due to the selection that they have. If you have any other tips/ideas that I or anyone else with ADHD might be able to use please let me/us know. Also, thank you for talking about this I know it isn’t a huge deal but it is nice to know I am not the only one who has experienced this.
I would love for you to read Hailey Piper’s trio of novellas starting with The Worm And His Kings, which are very queer and very angry. To my taste, they sustain the anger and the fascinating characters through a very twisty story indeed. (Oh, THAT’s what you do once the Earth gets eaten.) But my POV has its own skews, to put it mildly.
I guess I DNFed before I got out of the "gay trauma" part lol