I’m sort of tearing through the novel because I’m not really reading it as ‘literature to study’ but rather just to soak it in.

It’s a tough slog with everyone so miserable and the subject matter so damn depressing – but it’s hard to look away too.

Also it seems best to put myself in the place of Lockwood and just be immersed into this tale of people he’s just met and is probably also just as terrified of.