Multiple Points of View
A note before reading this post:
I don’t review books (because I don’t enjoy writing reviews, though during that brief time I was studying writing in postgrad I received excellent marks for my book reviews), so I don’t tend to name books I’m reading. It’s more about what I learn from the media than the media itself.
Multiple POVs have been getting harder for me to read these days, thanks to chronic illness unpredictably impacting my abilities.
But I recently found a book (thriller-ish) where it wasn’t used for red herrings and deepening mystery, but to add context to the existing story. That made the multiple POVs much more accessible to me, because the narrative line through the POVs was more continual, not broken.
It’s amazing how this use of multiple POVs made it accessible to me. It makes me wonder if I’d been avoiding them for good reason, and how to tell when it’ll be manageable for me or not.
Managing creativity and chronic illnesses will always be an ongoing lesson.
Image description: A person holding up a sliver of a mirror, where only one eye is visible