 Hello everybody, E here, back again with another audiobook review. I am slowly kind of not really weaning myself, not weaning myself all, but I'm slowly getting back into reading, but this is my fourth audiobook in a row. I've just been blowing through them and today we are talking about Optic Nerve by Maria Gaines. This is an odd book to talk about because not a whole lot goes on in like the present tense in this book. Where this book really shines is the historical aspect of it. Gaines goes through several different points in history, several different cultures. There is a very heavy Argentinian art history, it goes into Japanese history, all different kinds of stuff. And while there's not too much going on in the present time in the book, because she keeps flashing back to what happened to all these artists that she admires and appreciates, while there's not much going on, I was utterly captivated by all of the history, all the other culture stuff, I had a tremendous amount of fun learning about these artists. The narrator, now here's one of the issues that I might have had with the book had it not been for the fascinating historical content. I didn't really get too much as far as the narrator was concerned and as far as the rest of the characters, I've just finished it this morning and I've completely blanked on any of their names. Now I can go and I can look it up, but I feel that would be dishonest. So while I didn't get a strong sense of character, it was almost as if I was reading a very intriguing, and it's going to sound bad, but text book, book on history, whatever you want to call it, a narrative nonfiction is what it felt like. Now that's not the case, the book is fiction. It hops back and forth very interestingly. Some of the one, certain sections are some of the best second person point of view writing that I've read. The last time I read Good Second Person was Kea Wilson's We Eat Our Own, and that was pretty much built just like this one. There's third person, there is first person, and there's second person, Kea Wilson's book is the same. The big difference here is Kea Wilson's is kind of like a horror, literary horror. This one is just literary fiction. I enjoyed every part of this. I will be honest, I was playing Animal Crossing, but I've been playing Animal Crossing with all of my, all the audiobooks. It's really easy to get into that game, especially once you know it. It's really easy to put on an audiobook and just kind of get lost in fishing or whatever you need to do to get your nook miles points. Anybody out there playing Animal Crossing? Let me know down there in the doobly-doo. I already got several friends and if you want to leave your switch code or send me your switch code on Twitter in a DM or an email, that's fine. My email address is edwardlornatgmail.com, so hit me up there. Just give me your switch friend code or I'll send you mine. It doesn't matter. But anyways, back to this book. I can't really, I'm struggling to try and find something, some kind of criticism, but I can't really find it. I shouldn't have liked it because the characters didn't, I didn't connect with them, which was the problem that I had with David Saloi's book that, you know, I shouldn't have liked it for that reason. I shouldn't have liked it because I don't like second person POV writing and I don't care too much for historical fiction. But as with Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle, the historical stuff in this one is done so extremely well. In fact, I went back and I looked up several of the things that she talks about and they all actually happened or these people actually existed, so on and so forth. There was a war that I can't remember is like the triple something war that I had never even heard of. And that's a lot of where, that's, like I said, that's exactly where this book shines is the fact that she made, she made learning interesting for me anyways. If you're looking for a plot heavy character heavy story, this probably isn't for you. The present stuff where you're actually going around with a narrator is fun and it's interesting, but it's, you don't really get a feel for the character, at least I didn't. But I'm going to give it five stars based solely on the fact that I did enjoy it and she made stuff that usually bores me really, really enjoyable. So have you read Optic Nerve? I'd love to hear what you think, thought about it down there in the doobly-doo. If you liked it, tell me why you liked it. If you hated it, disliked it, felt meh, tell me why. We can't have a discussion unless you give me more input. But until next time, I have an E, you have an U, and this has been another book review, audio book review, whatever you want to call it, and I'll talk to you guys next time. Bye-bye!