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I finished alone with you in the ether recently enough that my face is still wet. As a phd student, a lapsed catholic, and someone who has a therapy appointment in the morning, this was startlingly up my alley. I am so grateful to you for bringing this book into the world. It was beautiful, and the characters were so real to me that I feel like I should be calling them and telling them how I feel, rather than the author. Thank you again. first of all HI, I feel like I haven’t heard from you in ages and I’m so happy to see you! secondly I’m overjoyed to hear this. I’ve actually noticed a few people saying this book feels tailor made for them in some way or another and I can’t believe how happy that makes me. because it proves the whole point of the book, you know what I mean??? we’re alone together in the ether and it just 😩 means so much to me that this is how my work could make you feel. anyway I’m so grateful to you for reading; always, with all my stories, but especially this one. thank you so very much! ( obligatory reminder that reviews are greatly appreciated!) 285.1K viewsDiscover short videos related to alone with you in either fancast on TikTok. Explore the latest videos from hashtags: #alonewithyoufic, #aloneinthemovietheatre, #inlocewithyou, #alonewithyouinthether, #alonewithyouintheetherquotes, #alonewithyouintheethier, #fallinginlocewithyou, #fallinginoewithyou, #freakinginlocewithyou, #fallinginnovewithyou .
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May 06, 2022 Ayman rated it it was amazing new favorite book alert. cried, sobbed, threw up, cut off all my hair, threw myself down the stairs, crash my car into a grocery store, drank bleach straight from the bottle, lit a cigarette next to my dads oxygen tank, and entered a lions den. this is the best written
book i’ve come across. i can’t even put into words how much i not only loved this book but connected to it. olivie puts into words the thoughts and feelings i feel that i myself can’t find the words for. how tf can someone write so cried, sobbed, threw up, cut off all my hair, threw myself down the stairs, crash my car into a grocery store, drank bleach straight from the bottle, lit a cigarette next to my dads
oxygen tank, and entered a lions den. this is the best written book i’ve come across. i can’t even put into words how much i not only loved this book but connected to it. olivie puts into words the thoughts and feelings i feel that i myself can’t find the words for. how tf can someone write something so captivating?!? this isn’t your typical love story. it deals with heavy topics such as mental health and mood disorders. the main characters, Regan and Aldo are so complex and deep
with each other and separately. i found myself connecting to both of them in someway shape or form. god, i felt like i was fucking fighting for them and i was. i was so connected to their connection. i didn’t want it to end. their love isn’t this pretty perfect thing yet it’s so deep and heart wrenching. it felt tangible and flammable. someone said this book felt like seeing god and they’re completely right. it felt like i was in heaven and hell at the same time too. this is a
character driven book and the plot is the characters lives so don’t go into it saying “omg it’s so pretentious” like that’s the point. it’s a book that you have to go into wanting to put some thoughts into. it’s a book that could be dissected for ages. this book is the Amex black card with unlimited credit of all books. the writing is like no other. it’s not this overly descriptive and flowery thing. it’s speaking from the heart and the brain at the same time. i’ve been waiting to read a
book that would consume me. this book scratched a part of my brain that heavily needed to be scratched. and i absolutely loved every bit of it. this is kinda a side note but this book takes place in chicago and that alone can be a five star read for me, but my point is that olivie blake describes chicago so accurately that only a person who has lived here could ever do. olivie blake has all my gratitude for that.
Apr 20, 2021 manuela rated it it was amazing dementia runs in my family... that means i’ll be able to read this book all over again for the first time and i thank my genes for that
Jun 14, 2021 lei rated it it was amazing olivie blake could do romeo and juliet but shakespeare couldn't do alone with you in the ether olivie blake could do romeo and juliet but shakespeare couldn't do alone with you in the ether ...more
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reading this masterpiece is not enough i want it engraved on my tombstone tattooed on my body injected into my veins
Dec 09, 2021 maxine rated it it was amazing pardon my blasphemy but reading this book felt like seeing God
May 08, 2022 persephone ☾ rated it it was amazing
if art is supposed to make you feel something, then this book is art in its purest form, for there is no emotion this book hasn’t make me feel. i will cherish this book with every fiber of my being for the rest of my life and i want it engraved upon my heart. call it insanity, i call it common sense because in what world would someone not be completely bewitched by this masterpiece ? i know this might sound awfully selfish, but if
i could, i would keep this book to myself forever and ever and ne i will cherish this book with every fiber of my being for the rest of my life and i want it engraved upon my heart. call it insanity, i call it common sense because in what world would someone not be completely bewitched by this
masterpiece ? i know this might sound awfully selfish, but if i could, i would keep this book to myself forever and ever and never let anyone approach it. it is so dear to me in a way that is almost inexplicable, perhaps because of how heartbreaking yet tenderly comforting it was, who knows, but what i can say with the utmost certainty is that i will treasure it for the rest of my life <3
Dec 18, 2021 tori rated it really liked it reading this book wasn't enough i need it injected into my veins reading this book wasn't enough i need it injected into my veins ...more
Dec 25, 2021 Haley pham rated it it was amazing Most underrated book ever and I think Olivie Blake is my fav faction author.
↳actual rating: 4.5 stars great book for heartbroken
gorgeous girls and boys and hopeless romantics
Jun 01, 2022 pauline rated it it was amazing
I. LOVE. THIS. BOOK!!! The beginning might confuse you and might leave you scratching your head but godddd, this story was so beautiful. Push through and you're going to fall in love with them. There are books that are written in such a beautiful way that it feels like no words can do my thoughts justice on this. Their nonverbal interactions had me SCREAMING!! Butterflies in my stomach. Interactions that seem so small and minute
between them felt so intimate and so tender that my heart ached in th The beginning might confuse you and might leave you scratching your head but godddd, this story was so beautiful. Push through and you're going to fall in love with them. There are books that are written in such a beautiful way that it feels like no words can do my thoughts justice on this. Their nonverbal interactions had me SCREAMING!!
Butterflies in my stomach. Interactions that seem so small and minute between them felt so intimate and so tender that my heart ached in the best way. It was like I watched it unfold so slowly in front of me. A single paragraph left me so giddy and not a word was spoken between them. It was the way they gravitated to each other that felt so intoxicating and... am I just being dramatic?!?! Idk you'll have to find out and read it (I totally dont think so though 🤗) Highly recommend!!
Their love story is beautiful and complicated and I'm just happy to have read it
“She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only
recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.” This is the most beautifully written book I have ever read.
Jul 28, 2021 zia rated it it was amazing
i was in a horrible reading slump when i decided to read this. the writing style felt pretentious to me at first; how dialogues switch from being in first person i to being in third person she or him. but as the story progressed, i saw the beauty in it. how the characters were viewed in an omniscient way; all their cracks and flaws laid out for us to comprehend. the story seemed
personal and deeply thought out which makes this such an emotional book to read. the moment i read the last paragraph o the moment i read the last paragraph of this book, i thought ah, i would never find a book like this. i will always single this out of all the books i have read. there is nothing inside my head but aldo and regan and bees and quantum formulas and differential equations and the crevices of their fragile minds and i am at lost for
words to describe how utterly devastatingly beautiful this book was.
May 17, 2022 Misha rated it liked it I spent the first 60% or so MARVELING at the FANTASTIC writing. I don’t want to make light of that. I was moved. The building tension was so good. We were careening towards disaster and I knew it would hurt and I couldn’t wait. I kept imagining that my
review would just be one word— Ow.— next to a 5 star rating. I didn’t have a doubt in my mind. And then… it got worse. The writing became a little too self-indulgent. It took on that fake-deep/Jared Leto/tumblr circa 2014 tone. It started feeling p And then… it got worse. The writing became a little too self-indulgent. It took on that fake-deep/Jared Leto/tumblr circa 2014 tone. It started feeling pretentious. I found the last third to be totally unsatisfying. The content wasn’t profound enough to match the theatrics of the writing. Just think
about how much buildup we got hinting at the final conflict. How dramatically it was referenced. How many times we were told there was this one pivotal moment that unraveled everything and in how many different ways we read about Regan and Aldo dissecting their decisions in retrospect. But… what really happened? What pulled them apart? What drew them back together? Regan’s art exhibit was so expected that I couldn’t believe it. Really? We’re going in this direction?
This is the big finale? The grand gesture? It was so basic! This book was set up to be so much more than that— so much edgier than that— what happened?! How did we end up in Live, Laugh, Love territory? The way people are ENAMORED by this book in the reviews surprises me. Are you guys just enchanted by the writing? Because, sure, I get that! But, what part of the story was so profound to you? Because to me, it felt like unwrapping a beautifully wrapped present only
to find an empty box underneath. I take zero joy in being a contrarian. I liked all of the same things you guys liked: Aldo, *Regan, the poetic writing, the nuanced observations on the human condition, the romantic tragedy of it all. I’m not… not seeing what you guys are seeing— it just didn’t fully bloom for me. Still. I’m so glad I read this, it was absolutely worth it for me. *because that dumb bitch was relatable, not because I loved her character.
Jun 15, 2022 maddy ♡ rated it it was amazing not to be dramatic or anything but this book means everything to me
3.5 This book was an incoherent mess (intentional I know) that deserves an incoherent mess of a review. Here we go. - Related a little TOO much to Regan - And not in a good way - (I don’t know how it could be in a
good way? The bitch sucks) - I finished this in two days so that must mean something, right? - Both of these characters are autistic because I said so - The writing in the first half of the book was brilliant, show stopping, never been done before - Second half was an incoherent mess which I - Related a
little TOO much to Regan - And not in a good way - (I don’t know how it could be in a good way? The bitch sucks) - I finished this in two days so that must mean something, right? - Both of these characters are autistic because I said so - The writing in the first half of the book was brilliant, show stopping, never been done before - Second half was an incoherent mess which I believe was intentional? And yet. - Not sure if I liked the ever changing
narrative style but I’m leaning towards not liking it at all - I wish all the metaphors from the first half could’ve actually meant something in the end, spoiler alert! They didn’t - What even was the end?? I don’t even know, but I sure didn’t like it! - I love you Aldo… - The side characters were so one dimensional it hurt - Especially Marc. Marcus? See, I don’t even remember his name. - He was such an unrealistic character and only existed to tell Regan she
sucked, prove me wrong. - But the writing though……… it really was beautiful, guys…… - But also really pretentious at times if I’m being honest - The line “occupy her cunt”. Yeah…… - Pls just say sex Olivie, I don’t want to hear about cunt occupation ever again - How is that in the same book as “If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.” - Or “She is in all of his spaces and all of his
thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.” - It doesn’t compute. - Also loved the references to classic lit - “Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too.” WUTHERING HEIGHTS TEASE????? - “it is perilously wonderful to suffer so sweetly with you.” WAR AND PEACE
TEASE????? - So I did love it. - But I also hated parts of it. - My opinions are as messy as the novel itself and I think that’s fitting. - So should I sell my copy for 2 million dollars???
Jun 01, 2022 starlitpages rated it it was amazing this book is easily one of my favorite books
of the year. possibly even one of my favorite books period! I think I probably highlighted more than half of this book, it’s actually embarrassing. this is going to sound ridiculous, but this book made me feel like I was floating. I couldn’t put it down and when I wasn’t reading this book I was yearning to pick it up again. It’s actually sad how much of a hold this book has on me. the way that regan and aldo tried so hard to really understand every pa this is going to sound ridiculous, but this book made me feel like I was floating. I couldn’t put it down and when I wasn’t reading this book I was yearning to pick it up again. It’s actually sad how much of a hold this book has on me. the way that regan and aldo
tried so hard to really understand every part of each other was inspiring “We are somewhere in the depths of time, somewhere people only dare imagine in their dreams. We are floating in dark matter. We are trapped inside a star, which is locked inside a system, which is itself a galaxy we can’t escape and we are lost to each other, to ourselves, and to the inconsequence of space.”
a masterpiece. “Alone With You in the Ether” is one of the best romance books I’ve ever read. The book was so beautifully written. It’s what I would call a literary romance. I loved the writing style so much, and I really loved the idea of this
book. Still, I’m not sure about my rating to this book. I was bored at the beginning, and it took me some time to finish it. But,
a masterpiece. “Alone With You in the Ether” is one of the best romance books I’ve ever read. The book was so beautifully written. It’s what I would call a literary romance. I loved the writing style so much, and I really loved the idea of this book. Still, I’m not sure about my rating to this book. I was bored at the beginning, and it took me some time to finish it. But, as I read later on, I couldn’t stop myself from completing the book. might be spoilers idk”even when you know everything about how a piece is made, you’re still only seeing the surface.” So, Alone With You in the Ether is about a meeting of two people, Aldo and Regan, who will get to know and understand each other even before they get together. At the beginning, I didn’t know why people would talk about this book and what makes it different from other romance books. as I read, I come to know that it has nothing to do with any romance book I’ve ever read. Two people falling in love and fixing each other, but that wasn’t the case with AWYITE. AWYITE was about two broken people with their own problems falling in love and thinking that their love will fix whatever they are going through. AWYITE shows you that you can’t always depend on someone for your own happiness and for fixing your own problems. Sometimes love can’t fix everything, and sometimes you’ve to fix everything on your own and focus on yourself. Regan and Aldo fell in love yes but love wasn’t enough it was probably unhealthy for both of them to stay together. It’s hard to connect with someone, understand them, and let them knwo the deepest part of yourselves that you’ve even tried to hide from yourself. "Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too.” Aldo understood Regan in a way no one else could -even Marc her long lasting boyfriend didn’t understand her as Aldo did. I loved how Aldo and Regan were when they were together: how they lived in their own world only both of them are allowed in. ”It’s you and me alone in the ether and you don’t even know it, you don’t even care, but still you are tied to this, and to me, and so be it, really.” this is really long and I’ll stop here. I recommend this book to everyone. No matter how hard your life is and no matter how many issues you have doesn’t mean you can’t fall in love and be happy with someone and doesn’t mean that you don’t deserve to be happy and loved. okay one last thing, the talk about math, hexagons, and all the pther complex information was so much for me to take and understand😭 As a reviewer said (I don’t remember who but all credits to them), “Olivia Blake could write Romeo and Juliet, but William Shakespeare couldn’t write Alone With You in the Ether.” ...more
Jan 24, 2022 signe rated it it was ok it was cool in the beginning with their dialogues about bees, time travel and art etc, but as the book dragged on i just found myself less interested in the characters, and when the writing style changed into just endless paragraphs without any conversations at all towards the end, i just lost my patience with it. i can still totally see why people adore this book, but it just wasn't my cup of tea it was cool in the beginning with their dialogues about bees, time travel and art etc, but as the book dragged on i just found myself less interested in the characters, and when the writing style changed into just endless paragraphs without any conversations at all towards the end, i just lost my patience with it. i can still totally see why people adore this book, but it just wasn't my cup of tea ...more
i don’t understand why so many people like this book lol desperately trying to be deep and existential, aldo and regan giving very much mgk and megan fox, did not enjoy it, was hard to finish
This book has the capability to show you the essence of life, holding it up to you for close examination, saying Look at it, look at the ragged edges, look at the rounded curves, look how it splinters and fixes itself but is slightly different each time. It depicts the human soul, the balance of fragility and strength. This book makes you want to laugh and cry and scream. The story within its pages illustrates the contradictory nature of love: how we can be too loud and yet feeling unheard, too This book has the capability to show you the essence of life, holding it up to you for close examination, saying Look at it, look at the ragged edges, look at the rounded curves, look how it splinters and fixes itself but is slightly different each time. It depicts the human soul, the balance of fragility and strength. This book makes you want to laugh and cry and scream. The story within its pages illustrates the contradictory nature of love: how we can be too loud and yet feeling unheard, too broken and yet beautiful beyond words. This book makes you feel alive, and that's why it's ineffable. ...more
I will not understand how this book is classified as a romance when it felt like a horror story in my eyes. Following two vulnerable and flawed characters who
come together to form a deeply unhealthy, sex-addicted, codependent relationship, this book left me baffled that people can romanticize and idealize the relationship between Aldo and Regan when I was actively rooting for them to separate and seek help. Their personalities had two or three distinct traits and little to nothing else to cling Their personalities had two or three distinct traits and little to nothing else to cling onto, as a reader, as we meander throughout their relationship that seems all consuming to them,
but, as an outsider, deeply confused me because they speak for hours on hand but manage to say nothing in the process. Their connection is superficial and deeply obsessive (they both don’t have a single friend and barely reach out to their family because they are all consumed by each other), and it concerns me that their ending connection feels like a triumph when they are not in a good place to be in a relationship. There’s even a point in the novel where they have a fight and Regan has
thoughts of stabbing Aldo, her family, and herself, all because she cannot have a man that she is literally addicted to because she puts all her value as a human being into one other person. Um…. Are we going to act like that’s okie dokie? I will never understand how this is labeled as a romance when it left me horrified, concerned that impressionable readers will seek out toxic relationships similar to this, and the fact that therapy and medication is subtly made out to be the wretch in
their relationship, the thing that’s holding them back? Yeah………… no. I understand this is the point of it all, but that doesn’t mean I have to enjoy the ride, nor does it negate how often I see people praising this as one of the most romantic books they’ve read. I have more to say, but wow. Wow. Wow. Wow….
Dec 01, 2021 richa rated it it was amazing My prediction of loving the absolute hell out of this book came true and I simply let it consume all my waking thoughts. I was happy, deliriously mad.
Jan 03, 2022 hammd. rated it it was amazing just finished this in one sitting banging my head against a wall until I pass out.
Nov 17, 2021 Jonathan rated it it was amazing
yes. 4.5 stars this is exactly the kind of thing i like to read. the writing was beautiful. it just hit. it was really raw and felt kinda manic, which makes sense considering the main character definitely has some kind of mania going on. at the same time the writing felt almost slow at times and you got those opposing forces fighting each other: one trying to slow down and the other just going nonstop. which again makes sense because
that's literally just how the two main characters are. i related t this is exactly the kind of thing i like to read. the writing was beautiful. it just hit. it was really raw and felt kinda manic, which makes sense considering the main character definitely has some kind of mania going on. at the same time the writing felt almost slow at times and you got those opposing forces fighting each other: one trying to
slow down and the other just going nonstop. which again makes sense because that's literally just how the two main characters are. i related to both aldo and regan a lot. which is probably not a good thing to say. maybe i'll reread it someday and write an actual review. who knows. it's definitely one of those books that i would reread and annotate a lot if i had a physical copy. anyway. here, have some quotes: "You wouldn’t make love with him, you’d make art. Maybe
that would be worth it, but still, art is tragedy. Art is loss. It’s the fleeting breath of a foregone moment, the intimacy of things undone, the summer season that passes. It’s the peeled lemon and bony fish in the corner of a Dutch still life, rotten and dead and gone. It’s him lying next to you, legs tangled with yours, only to know he’ll be a specter in your thoughts by next month, next week, ten minutes from now. This is what makes it art, Charlotte, and you’ve always understood that.
You’ve always understood, above everything, that what makes beauty is pain." “Sometimes I feel like I’m just waiting for something that will never happen,” he said. “Like I’m just existing from day to day but will never really matter. I get up in the morning because I have to, because I have to do something or I’m just wasting space, or because if I don’t answer the phone my dad will be alone. But it’s an effort, it takes work. I have to tell myself, every day, get up. Get up, do
this, move like this, talk to people, be normal, try to be social, be nice, be patient. On the inside I just feel like, I don’t know, nothing. Like I’m just an algorithm that someone put in place.” "Aldo, I cry when it rains, I pick fights sometimes, I don’t know why. I look at the sky and feel this inexplicable sense of dread. I’m afraid that everything will end; are you ever afraid like that?" are they all about me? maybe. definitely.
fifth read 😫😫😫: july 01, 2022 second read: july 06, 2021 first read: june 06,
2021 "where are we in the cosmos, because i have lived this so many times in fantasy that it has become six different forms of r second read: july 06, 2021 first read: june 06, 2021 "where are we in the cosmos, because i have lived this so many times in fantasy that it has become six different forms of reality and now, tell me, which reality are we?" this was so beautifully written in ways that i could never fully explain. olivie blake’s writing has become one of my favorites ever since i read the atlas six and this book
further solidifies that.
Sep 27, 2022 h rated it it was amazing 4.5 stars, this hit too close to home; prying my brain out of my skull.
Apr 20, 2021 casandra rated it it was amazing The New Collection of Sacraments and Gospels Previously Titled The Holy Bible Famously Written By Olivie Blake Alexene Farol Follmuth Our Lady and Saviour Our Purger Of Sins
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view it, click here. [ 5 stars ] "…So when people say we're alone in the ether..? I have no thoughts but this book. A work of art. That is what this book is. anyway "…So when people say we're alone in the ether..? I have no thoughts but this book. A work of art. That is what this book is. anyways here's a song
that reminded me of aldoregan for some reason (mostly regan lol) and caused me more emotional damage :) aldo to regan❤️🩹 bees🐝
Jun 03, 2022 arabela rated it really liked it No thoughts, head empty, just "Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too." No thoughts, head empty, just "Whatever you are made of, Charlotte Regan, I am made of it, too." ...more
Olivie Blake is the pseudonym of Alexene Farol Follmuth, a lover and writer of stories, many of which involve the fantastic, the paranormal, or the supernatural, but not always. More often, her works revolve around what it means to be human (or not), and the endlessly interesting complexities of life and love. Olivie lives in Los Angeles with her husband and new baby, where she is generally tolerated by her rescue pit bull. Related ArticlesOctober has arrived, and this month’s batch of incoming titles features some big names, some much-anticipated sequels, and several exotic... “Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent? Can you love it even when it does not love me?” — 149 likes “She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.” — 136 likes More quotes…Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. What mental illness does Regan have in ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER?Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy.
Does ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER have a happy ending?It's a book that made me think deeply about love, life, time, and art. It's a literary romance in the best sense of the word and because it is a romance novel, there is a happy ending, or as happy as it could be given the personalities of the characters. But it is a happy ending.
Can you love my brain even when it is small?Preview — Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake. “Can you love my brain even when it is small? When it is malevolent? When it is violent?
Was ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER self published?An intimate study of time and space, ALONE WITH YOU IN THE ETHER is a fantasy writer's magicless glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken. Independently Published, 9798655480407, 302pp.
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