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Jun. 25th, 2012 12:21 pmDear Coworker,
I'm really happy that you liked Anansi Boys and I'm glad that we have an author we like in common but I tried reading that one a couple of times and I really can't. I appreciate that you liked the audiobook and I thank you for the recommendation but that book hit my embarrassment squick immensely hard in the way that is pretty much the worst for me (embarrassment-via-mistaken-identity is a thing that I just cannot deal with in the slightest degree) and listening to it would be worse than reading. See, if I'm reading a book, I can skim or skip things and those are impossible with a recording of a book I haven't read. So, y'know, thank you but I'm not going to read or listen to that and I really wish you would stop trying to get me to.
Explaining an embarrassment squick to people who don't have an embarrassment squick is really hard sometimes.
I'm really happy that you liked Anansi Boys and I'm glad that we have an author we like in common but I tried reading that one a couple of times and I really can't. I appreciate that you liked the audiobook and I thank you for the recommendation but that book hit my embarrassment squick immensely hard in the way that is pretty much the worst for me (embarrassment-via-mistaken-identity is a thing that I just cannot deal with in the slightest degree) and listening to it would be worse than reading. See, if I'm reading a book, I can skim or skip things and those are impossible with a recording of a book I haven't read. So, y'know, thank you but I'm not going to read or listen to that and I really wish you would stop trying to get me to.
Explaining an embarrassment squick to people who don't have an embarrassment squick is really hard sometimes.
