This book is really hard for me to read...
I'm reading this book by a well respected author with great reviews. I won't name it because I'm literally only a few pages in. To be honest, I want to give it a chance but the grammar is making it really hard for me to read.
I want to make it clear that I haven't read a book in about 15 years. I'm a screenwriter and I've been reading/studying scripts for the last few years. They're all I've been reading and if you don't know, a script is much different than a book. It's short and to the point which is not what I expect out of any book. It's a completely different formula. But the amount of 'run-on' sentences in the book I'm currently reading has me ready to take it back to the library. I'll give you an example:
'She has already seen an evolution, or devolution, of communication from Tommy over the course of the summer reflected in his sleepover texts: In mid-June it was I'm going to bed now, which a few weeks later became night mom, then became night, and then gn, and if Tommy could've texted an irritated grunt (his sub-verbal communication method of the moment, particularly whenever Elizabeth or his eleven-going-on-twelve-year-old sister, Kate, asked him to do something), he would've.'
Am I crazy? Or could that have been like 3 sentences? I feel like it might be a tedious complaint but it is seriously making it hard for me to read. This may even be more of a personal problem but it's like every other paragraph is just full of these. Another example:
'Instead of wading into the swelling sea of the blackest of what-ifs, she dares to think that maybe the call is a wrong number, or a prank, and Tommy just forgot to text her, and she'll yell at him tomorrow about his selfish forgetfulness'.
Is this normal? Because this style of writing is really taking me out of the story.