I...tried it. At the beginning of the summer. But I was having trouble with the voice; it's so distinctive, it's a dialect, really, and I was trying to translate it, rather than absorb it and go with it, and that's not how you're supposed to read it. So I felt guilty and returned it.

But I'm reading your sidebar, and it really is wonderful, so I'm thinking I'll give it another go. Just, this time I won't try to force it. It's not going to make me cry, is it? I can't bear crying; or if it is, it'll at least put me back together at the end, right?

And, randomly,

::loffs you::