![]() ![]() To all the other reviewers of this book.did we.did we read the same thing? I've missed something major here. What an incredible effort to put into words a very vulnerable aspect of herself. This was a book that was clearly a labour of love for the author whose endnote explained her motivations in writing this book. olivie blake has all my gratitude for that. This is kinda a side note but this book takes place in chicago and that alone can be a five star read for me, but my point is that olivie blake describes chicago so accurately that only a person who has lived here could ever do. this book scratched a part of my brain that heavily needed to be scratched. i’ve been waiting to read a book that would consume me. it’s speaking from the heart and the brain at the same time. it’s not this overly descriptive and flowery thing. This book is the Amex black card with unlimited credit of all books. it’s a book that could be dissected for ages. it’s a book that you have to go into wanting to put some thoughts into. This is a character driven book and the plot is the characters lives so don’t go into it saying “omg it’s so pretentious” like that’s the point. it felt like i was in heaven and hell at the same time too. Someone said this book felt like seeing god and they’re completely right. their love isn’t this pretty perfect thing yet it’s so deep and heart wrenching. god, i felt like i was fucking fighting for them and i was. i found myself connecting to both of them in someway shape or form. ![]() the main characters, Regan and Aldo are so complex and deep with each other and separately. ![]() it deals with heavy topics such as mental health and mood disorders. how tf can someone write something so captivating?!? olivie puts into words the thoughts and feelings i feel that i myself can’t find the words for. I can’t even put into words how much i not only loved this book but connected to it. this is the best written book i’ve come across. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.Ĭried, sobbed, threw up, cut off all my hair, threw myself down the stairs, crash my car into a grocery store, drank bleach straight from the bottle, lit a cigarette next to my dads oxygen tank, and entered a lions den. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?įrom Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse.įor Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability-until the two meet. He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. To Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision. But this is not a story about endings.įor Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance.
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