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Here by Richard McGuire

This book is amazing. If you’ve read it, please talk to me about it. If you haven’t read it, please read it. One of my favourite things is seeing something done in a book that I’ve never seen before. This book does that. But not only is it original, it is perfectly executed. This is the sort of book I want to write. This is the sort of book that makes me wish I could draw. I want to create books like this using primarily text rather than images. This book has a lot in common with what I was trying to do in Foursquare. It makes me want to go back and finish making that book good.

It is rare that I audibly react to a book. I did several times to this one. The page where the bird flies in the window, the page with all the insults, the tree growing. The art style is perfect, clean strong lines for the room itself, more messy for the people in it.

I love how, though the moments in time are presented in thematic groupings, it doesn’t feel like McGuire created them in order to fill those groupings, it feels like they were all already there, in their own points of history, just waiting to be collaged together however he saw fit. None of it feels forced. It just flows and makes sense. Another thing I love in a book is when it’s impossible to predict what will happen next but once it happens you realise it couldn’t have been any other way. This book does that.

And the language is so tight and pitch perfect. Those are the kind of sentences I search out and collect. Those are the sort of sentences I want to use in my acrostic poem project. Those are the sort of sentences people say over and over again so many times that they lose one sort of power but gain a whole other sort.

This book is an instant favourite for me. Richard McGuire has a new superfan.

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YAAAAAAAAHH

GET OUT OF MY BRAIN

YOU DONT BELONG HERE

THESE THOUGHTS ARE NOT FOR YOU

THIS IS MINE

GO AWAY

DONT READ THIS

I JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE

TO LISTEN TO PODCASTS AND WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEOS

ABOUT BASKETBALL AND DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS

AND EAT CHOCOLATE AND POPCORN AND CANDY AND COKE AND ICECREAM AND COOKIES AND PRETZELS AND PASTA

IF YOU DONT GO AWAY ILL THROW YOU IN MY CHEST

TO BE SUCKED INTO THE BLACK HOLE

GOODBYE

STAY OUT OF MY TINY ROOM

LOCK THE DOOR

DONT BOTHER MESSAGING ME

I WONT LOOK

I ONLY TALK TO MYSELF

I ONLY LISTEN TO PEOPLE I DONT KNOW

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO COME IN HERE ANYWAY

IM AWFUL COMPANY

I HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER YOU

I HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER ANYONE

CONSIDER THIS A SIGN ON THE DOOR

DO NOT DISTURB

I MEAN IT

I WILL JUST LIE HERE AND PRETEND TO BE ASLEEP

I WONT MOVE UNTIL YOU LEAVE

PLEASE JUST GO AWAY

YOURE HURTING ME

STOP IT I DONT LIKE IT

YOURE JUST MAKING THINGS WORSE

I DONT WANT TO CRY IN FRONT OF YOU