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A review by corinnekeener
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
3.0
On episode 62 of The Bookstore Podcast we read and reviewed Trust Exercise by Susan Choi.
There's basically no way to talk about this book's plot without spoiling it, so I'll try to stay away from that as much as possible. If you want a greater breakdown of thoughts, themes, and my actual psyche, you can listen to the episode linked at the top of this review.
I think fundamentally this is a book about storytelling and the nature of memory/the way we frame our own lives. I found the structure to be clever, but punishing. If I hadn't read this book for an episode of the podcast I produce with a friend I would have given up 15 pages in. As it is, I had to read through 120 pages to find out in Part 2 what it was doing.
I legitimately do not know how to rate this thing. I think I hated it, but also I can't stop thinking about it? It's an enigma, but I'm not sure it deserves to be one? Part of me is still expecting something to fall into place and then for me to jump out of bed and proclaim it genius. But for now I'm gonna go halfway down the middle before I remember too much about how many descriptions I had to read of teens having orgasms.
There's basically no way to talk about this book's plot without spoiling it, so I'll try to stay away from that as much as possible. If you want a greater breakdown of thoughts, themes, and my actual psyche, you can listen to the episode linked at the top of this review.
I think fundamentally this is a book about storytelling and the nature of memory/the way we frame our own lives. I found the structure to be clever, but punishing. If I hadn't read this book for an episode of the podcast I produce with a friend I would have given up 15 pages in. As it is, I had to read through 120 pages to find out in Part 2 what it was doing.
I legitimately do not know how to rate this thing. I think I hated it, but also I can't stop thinking about it? It's an enigma, but I'm not sure it deserves to be one? Part of me is still expecting something to fall into place and then for me to jump out of bed and proclaim it genius. But for now I'm gonna go halfway down the middle before I remember too much about how many descriptions I had to read of teens having orgasms.