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I made myself busy by reading all of those pieces and taking note of the important things that should be put into the review. Actually, I'm scared about writing a review because I don't know if it's going to be good or bad. I haven't written one except for the book reviews I uploaded online for the books that I have read. Mostly of those reviews only tackle the good parts of the book. I don't usually put bad reviews because I was scared of being too honest. I feel like being honest will set me up for an argument with someone, and confrontations scare the hell out of me.

Don read the review and said: "He reviewed a different book." Ernest read it. "Yes," he said. "He reviewed the book about cities and missed the argument about persons." "He reviewed the book he would have written," Don said. "Not the book I wrote." He set the review aside. He looked at the fire. The fire was burning at the March intensity—the fire that knew winter was ending but was not yet ready to yield to spring. Don said: "The inside account requires the inside. He read from the outside." He paused. "The outside reading of a book about inside accounts is a legitimate response. He is not wrong to read from outside. He has simply produced the outside account of a book that argues for the i

The first review I read was from a literary publication that described the book as unflinching and specific and written with the particular authority of someone who had lived inside the thing she was describing rather than observing it from outside. The second review used the phrase inside view. Not from the methodology. From the book. From the chapter about the Marlowe's dinner and eating the meal alone and going home with every piece of yourself intact. The third review was not a professional review. It was a message in the Aldrich Press reader feedback system, forwarded to me by Patricia. A woman who identified herself only as M. She said she had bought the book on Tuesday. She said she w

He'd been staying more nights than not for the past week, the couch becoming a formality we both observed less and less. He came to the counter and looked at my laptop. "You didn't open it." "I said I wouldn't." "Open it." "You read it. Like last time." "Last time you hadn't submitted to a top-tier journal with a personal introduction from Reeves." He pulled the laptop toward him. "This one we read together." He turned it so we could both see the screen, and I moved beside him, our shoulders touching, and he opened the email. Two reviewers. Standard structure. I read the first reviewer's summary and felt my chest tighten with the particular anxiety of someone watching their work be measured.

About what it is to be the daughter of a man who trusted the truth more than he trusted his own safety. The book is reviewed in three national publications in the week of its release. Two of the reviews are the kind that a first-time author does not anticipate receiving — serious and specific and written by people who have read it rather than read about it. The third review is in a financial publication and is largely concerned with the Blackwood Holdings story as a corporate narrative, which is not the book I wrote. I read it with the equanimity of someone who has learned that not every reader is your reader and that this does not diminish the ones who are.

I let it ring twice. Then I answered. "Ms. Mercer," he said. The warm measured voice. The same one from the first call. Completely controlled. "I received the board's communication regarding the review period." "Yes," I said pleasantly. "A technical reading of section twelve," he said. "A precise reading," I said. "Section twelve is quite clear." A pause. Brief. But there. "You have been reading our governance documents," he said. "I read everything relevant to matters I am involved in," I said. "It is a professional habit."