My weekend read

I wish I could read all the books I chose for my dissertation as quickly as I read this one. Rebecca Watson’s ‘little scratch’ is a stream of consciousness written so well that I simply couldn't put it down. I started it yesterday and I finished it today.

As a (not-yet-but-soon-published) writer myself, I’m obsessed with how we think. I explore it in my short stories, and I’m also doing it in the novel I’m working on. But Rebecca Watson takes it all to the next level. It’s not only the stream but the typography of it (to use a fancy term, i.e. the way the words are placed on the page) that is simply mesmerising. It’s a brain. On paper.

There is so much more to analyse. For my dissertation, I’ll pair it up with Rebbecca Ray’s ‘A Certain Age’ to discuss trauma in young writing, as well as unnamed narrators. I also want to pair it up with Eimear McBride’s ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing’ in a 3500-word essay. So much to analyse…