Poking away through a new book. I can’t help but feel it would be going faster if it wasn’t written in the present tense.
I am not sure I approve of a novel written in the present tense. It seems wrong.
I also can’t help but feel that by the end of the novel, there had better ba damn good reason to excuse something being written in the present tense (with this author, I am sure there will be).
There’s just something about the present tense that makes it difficult for me to feel engaged with the text and I don’t understand why that is.
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