made me reflect on listening versus reading books. I enjoyed the audiobook of this: it's well narrated, and suits merricat's first person narration out nicely. the idea that she's chatting away did help keep me engaged, whereas I think if i was reading, with an exclusive focus on the page, her voice could have begun to grate on me. at the same time, there were moments were I felt I wanted to see it written down, that jackson's use of language was carefully constructed to do something which I wanted to be able to look at and figure out. obviously she was writing for readers, not listeners, and I felt conscious there might be something I missed.